Hi everyone, I have been researching possible solutions for my network for a long time now, and I think I’ve finally found the right one that can do everything we need it to do. But I’d still like to ask. Here is the situation:
current network:
internet gigabit fiber connection ==> Cisco 5500 ==> servers
multiple \24 public IP spaces
all servers must use the public IP space
servers are running web servers/game servers, theres a few dns servers and mail servers too.
I am looking into MT doing some basic firewalling (port blocking, scan preventing and such). My situation is that I must have these servers accessible on their public IPs and I do not want to create a private network and then NAT the public spaces to the private network as there are always IPs and servers added/removed and it would be a hassle to have to change NAT all the time.
I have read all posts relating to similar situations on the forum and I’m pretty sure MT can handle this, just not sure exactly how. I read something about bridging where the traffic is filtered through the MT and the firewall rules apply but the servers keep their public IP space, also 1-to-1 NAT might help.
What I’m wondering is how can I apply MT to my situation, I would build a very nice dual-CPU, lots of RAM system for MT to handle all the traffic that comes in, would it be able to handle large amounts of traffic in such a setup?
I would also like to use the bandwidth monitoring features, but its not absolutely necessary as I can monitor this individually on each server through SNMP.
Thanks to whoever can provide some insight into this, I was going to ask sales@mikrotik but decided to post this here instead.