Getting online
When shopping around for Cisco hardware, I ran across a friend on #cisco on EFNet Internet Relay Chat. He gave me the pros and cons of each Cisco router and put together a great deal on a new Cisco 2611 with integrated WIC-1DSU-T1 DSU/CSU for $2,500. I later ordered a 32MB RAM upgrade from Crucial Technology for $70 to bring the router up to 40MB.
Now that we had a router, we needed to pick up a switch for the DMZ. Switching was absolutely required because sniffing would be an issue with any colocated servers. Since we only needed a switch to protect against sniffing and wouldn't need cutting-edge network management features for a while, we tracked down some surplus Kalpana switches and an EPS-2015 RS for $125.
After months of fighting with our ISP, the fiber was finally dropped into the basement and the fiber patch panel and MUX were installed on top of the router and switch on our 19 inch wallmount rack. A few hours later, we were up and running with a minimal configuration and pinging the ISP. The installation tech left us on our own and we started router configuration for the DMZ, firewall, and NAT. Another half hour and our Macs behind the firewall could see the outside world.
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