<div>
Are they using dedicated MPLS networks or just internet T1s and you are providing the VPN?
</div>


Are they using dedicated MPLS networks or just internet T1s and you are providing the VPN?

<div>
<div class="content wysiwyg-content">
I am assisting my friend with a school project. Basically I had a few questions. Here is the scenario.<br />
<br />
7 branch offices connected to a central office with dedicated T1 lines.<br />
1 network for data and separate for guest wireless network at each location.<br />
All internet comes through proxy at central location<br />
Around 60 hosts at each location<br />
<br />
The switch for the data network is plugged into one Ethernet interface and the WAP is plugged into the second Ethernet interface of the router at each location.<br />
<br />
IP Scheme example:<br />
<br />
Branch 1: Data 192.168.1.0 /24 Wireless 192.168.50.1 /24<br />
Branch 2: Data 192.168.2.0 /24 Wireless 192.168.51.0 /24<br />
<br />
Questions:<br />
<br />
Should he put Cisco ASA firewalls behind each router at the remote locations?<br />
If so, how do you configure the Cisco ASA if two Ethernet ports are used on the Router?
</div>
</div>


I am assisting my friend with a school project. Basically I had a few questions. Here is the scenario.

7 branch offices connected to a central office with dedicated T1 lines.
1 network for data and separate for guest wireless network at each location.
All internet comes through proxy at central location
Around 60 hosts at each location

The switch for the data network is plugged into one Ethernet interface and the WAP is plugged into the second Ethernet interface of the router at each location.

IP Scheme example:

Branch 1: Data 192.168.1.0 /24 Wireless 192.168.50.1 /24
Branch 2: Data 192.168.2.0 /24 Wireless 192.168.51.0 /24

Questions:

Should he put Cisco ASA firewalls behind each router at the remote locations?
If so, how do you configure the Cisco ASA if two Ethernet ports are used on the Router?

Firewall implementation for branch offices

Cisco PIX is a dedicated hardware firewall appliance; the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) is a firewall and anti-malware security appliance that provides unified threat management and protection the PIX does not. Other Cisco devices and systems include routers, switches, storage networking, wireless and the software and hardware for PIX Firewall Manager (PFM), PIX Device Manager (PDM) and Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM).

Cisco

A router is a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks. Routers perform the "traffic directing" functions on the Internet. The most familiar type of routers are home and small office cable or DSL routers that simply pass data, such as web pages, email, IM, and videos between computers and the Internet. More sophisticated routers, such as enterprise routers, connect large business or ISP networks up to the powerful core routers that forward data at high speed along the optical fiber lines of the Internet backbone. Though routers are typically dedicated hardware devices, use of software-based routers has grown increasingly common.

Routers

Networking hardware includes the physical devices facilitating the use of a computer network. Typically, networking hardware includes gateways, routers, network bridges, modems, wireless access points, networking cables, line drivers, switches, hubs, and repeaters. But it also includes hybrid network devices such as multilayer switches, protocol converters, bridge routers, proxy servers, firewalls, network address translators, multiplexers, network interface controllers, wireless network interface controllers, ISDN terminal adapters and other related hardware.