Information and/or Suggestiong needed

Ashley M. Kirchner ashley at pcraft.com
Thu Apr 20 04:56:24 UTC 2006


    The company I work for just opened a new office a blocks down the 
street (read: 1.5 miles.)  We have a dual T1 at our main location, and a 
single T1 at the second location.  This was discussed and planned months 
ago, each T1 goes to our ISP, separate subnets, no connection between 
our offices.

    Of course, today I'm presented with the question: what would it take 
to link the two offices together?  Would've been so nice to have known 
this BEFORE we installed the second T1 as I would've done it differently 
(more of a peer-to-peer link between the buildings.)

    Anyway, so the setup as it stands is, T1 here and T1 there.  Each 
with their own subnet (completely different range as well.)  Both 
locations have a Fedora machine with iptables acting as a firewall for 
the internal networks.  In order for us to transfer data from one 
location to the other, the information is essentially being dumped onto 
the big ole Internet and sent out (or received at the other end.)  What 
they want to know now is if there's anyway to link the locations 
together and possibly speed up the transfer of data, just between the 
locations (while still retaining the setup as it stands right now, 
without incurring the cost of yet another link, just between the buildings.)

    Is this even a feasible thing to do, at this point in the game?  And 
if so, I'm open for suggestions.

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