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> I need to hear from folks who actually build firewalls (you know
> who you are) regarding any experience they may have with the
> Livingston "FireWall IRX" and/or MorningStar Express Plus routers.
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Just set up a Livingston Router. It was shipped with obsolete software
that didn't work with the LMI protocol, and can NOT have more than one
subnet mask type. This is a FATAL flaw. My frame relay service provider
had to provide me with an entire class C address just so they could have
a dedicated circuit to our Livingston router. IE:
Insinc (frame relay service provider) netmask (router-router) was
255.255.255.252. Perfect, gate the routers their own little net - 1,2
for the routers and 0 and 3 for network and broadcast address. The
Livingston IRX portmaster could not do this as I required a netmask of
255.255.255.0 for my internal network.
In short, I needed the frm1 interface to have a netmask of 255.255.255.252.
I needed my ether0 interface to have a netmask of 255.255.255.0.
The Livingston portmaster could not handle this. Yuck.
Mark Swanson -----------------------------|
Systems Architect, Global -X- Change Inc. |
mswanson @
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