Routers / Switches / Firewalls
Hey guys.
Here's my question. I got my CCNA about a year back, but then never made it into the network market (amazing how much you forget in a year). I just recently get 5 new rack mount servers, acquired a class C subnet, and now I'm looking for some opinions.
I'd like to essentially control my own network, but it will all be within a datacenter (no plans to bring in my own connections at this time). So, how should I go about doing this?
take the line coming in from the datacenter into my firewall, then into a layer-3 switch?
I already have a layer-2 managed switch I can use, so if I can pick up a PIX 515 for a couple thousand, would that be the best route?
Is it common to do ethernet routing? For instance, you can get a cisco 2621 (two FE ports), but anything more then that and you'd have to buy the somewhat expensive 10base WIC's. Or are there better routers for a task such as this?
Like I said, been away a while, so try to catch back up.
Other suggestions also welcome...
thanks in advance,
Trader7702
Here's anouther question. For those who have control over their own network, do you place public IP's directly on the servers, or do you use SNAT and place servers on a private network?
As said in my previous post, I've been away from network for a while and I'm trying to determin how to overcome IP depletion once I use up my class C. Obviously it would take a while, but still a good idea to consider it.
Chances are I wont be able to sumarize routes because they wont be consecutive, so I'll need to route between different networks.
And pointers?
thanks,
trader7702
