Cisco Router w/ Dial Backup

[MysticLlama]

I'm looking at getting some Cisco routers for a WAN project.

The 827 and 837 are looking really good because I could use the same peice of equipment for both my L2 connections and my VPN connections.

Does anyone know if it's possible to set up one of these to do dial backup in the case of a WAN failure? These will be used in retail stores, so connectivity for credit card processing is essential.

Thanks

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: MysticLlama
I'm looking at getting some Cisco routers for a WAN project.

The 827 and 837 are looking really good because I could use the same peice of equipment for both my L2 connections and my VPN connections.

Does anyone know if it's possible to set up one of these to do dial backup in the case of a WAN failure? These will be used in retail stores, so connectivity for credit card processing is essential.

Thanks

If so then you'll want to look at other models. the 800 series are about as weak as they come.

1) Post what you're trying to do
2) Post what your bare requrements are for thruput, encryption, interfaces
3) Hopefully I can help you from there

-edit- is this for a single station doing transactions (if so then do dialup) if not an you need some sort of lan all running processing then a router/lan might be the right answer.

 

[MysticLlama]

Ugh, typed a big reply and lost it somehow, time to paraphrase this time.

It's for retail stores, the only thing running over it will be polling and light e-mail. The kicker is that there are around 100 locations and the dialup polling is getting to be living on the edge.

It'd be nice to keep open options for VoIP for 1-3 lines, security camera feeds, realtime credit card processing, etc.

As far as requirements for throughput, they will all be DSL, so only need to handle 256/256 to maybe 768/384 or so.
Encryption needs to do 3DES so that the ones that aren't using direct PVCs can be VPN'd to the main office.
Interfaces, just one WAN, one LAN is fine, though a built in four port switch would be nice for equipment elimination.

I was looking at 800s because, although weak, it does plenty to get by just passing the stuff through. There will be no split tunneling or anything, it's just going to take all traffic and send it to the office to be figured out there.

The provider I'm working with can get me most of the west coast locations, and then there are a couple of other areas where locations are grouped together into a 3-4 state area where I may be able to get them all piped to a local POP and then sent back to the data center here via T1.