Are you an ISP?

If you are an Internet Service Provider, then you definitely need our products. To make it easy and inexpensive for you, we can license the software to you and help you build the boxes. Our products are basically software that we load into a Pentium-based PC. We use the wonderful 3COM Network Interface Controllers, the Frame Relay cards from ISDN Systems Corp, and a hardware watchdog controller card from B&B Electronics. The current version of the software requires a mere 4 MB of RAM, but the next version (for WinNT or Win95) will require 16MB. All models need a hard disk of at least 500 MB. It's hard to find anything smaller!

The platform you use is up to you and to your customer. We'll license the software to you on a per-customer basis, on a sliding scale. We'll provide you bug fixes and enhancements that you may give to your customers.

The Next Version!

Our next version will be very exciting! It will be a software-only version, running on Windows 95 or Windows NT. It will use the standard Microsoft stacks. It will have a full 32-bit environment to run in, and so will be much more capable. The biggest benefit to a very small customer, is the elimination of the need for a dedicated PC platform for the NAT. This will appeal to your smaller users, even families! It will also have encrypted tunnel options, using RC4 stream cypher from RSA Security.

Internet Access Control

The next version will implement a variety of mechanisms to limit the users' access to the Internet. The traditional, but flawed, "Good Host, Bad Host" facility will supported, as will various levels of control based on time of day and nature of user.

Benefits to YOU!

There are a bunch of direct benefits to you when you use our NATs. Among these are:

You give your customer a single IP Address, rather than a whole Class C,
You can get usage statistics from the NAT via the syslog service, to help you monitor and plan your network,
You might not need to change the IP Addresses at a site that already has some IP in use,
Opportunities for additional ongoing paid services.

A Single IP Address

Did the NIC give you all the addresses that you think you'll ever need? Probably not! The NAT translates the IP Address at the customer site to the IP Address that you assign them from your pool. The customer may have one or hundreds of computers, but to you and the rest of the Internet, they all use the single address you assigned them. This lets you stretch your assigned addresses far beyond what was previously possible.

Use Existing IP Addresses

A customer that already has some IP in use, and who may or may not have registered addresses, may keep their addresses, since they'll never be seen on the outside. The NAT hides their addresses completely. You should encourage them to use the "reuseable" network addresses from RFC 1597 when you can.

Ongoing Service Opportunities

Since the NAT acts like an Internet Firewall, you can provide firewall monitoring and configuration services. Not all customers have the skill and experience that you do, and will be happy for you to look after this important aspect.

You may contract to update the "Good Host, Bad Host" access control tables within the customer NAT, using information that you gather from employees, customers and other suppliers of this information.

How Does It Work?

We use a greatly enhanced version of RFC 1631 Network Address Translation. Check out the techie details if you wish.

Limitations of the Current Version

The current version is limited in memory capability, and therefore must be used on fairly low volume networks. Packet forwarding rates cannot exceed 100 packets per second in the current version. We were offering a version with integral T1 card, but were unable to handle the typical T1 mix of data.

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