eNetco ------- ------- the Enterprise Networking Company
eNetco ------- ------- the Enterprise Networking Company
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 | Secure,
instant, plug-and-play LAN-to-Internet connection device |
| Provides
essential Internet services through a single IP address |
| Maximum security
firewall
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| Full
Internet service for up to 250 workstations |
| Web
site/intranet hosting |
| FTP capability |
| Dial-in
ports for remote users, plus an option of six additional
dial-in ports |
| Supports
all available communications options: ~ISDN ~DSL ~56K modem ~Cable ~T1/Fractional |
| Dual
Ethernet Supports all popular LAN environments, including:
Windows® NT, Windows® 9x, and Windows® for Workgroups
Netware® 3.x, 4.x Mac® OS UNIX® |
Unlike application proxy firewall systems that can decrease speed by 20-50%, the IPAD 2500 firewalls contribute virtually no overhead in either direction. You get all of the bandwidth your Internet connection provides. And unlike other types of firewall systems, the IPAD 2500 won't restrict the applications you can use.
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| eSoft's
True IP Address Expansion technology allows up to 250 users on
your LAN to use a single IP address without loss of capability
or speed |
| The
automatic firewall prevents attacks from outsiders yet is
flexible enough to allow you to define access to Internet
servers on your LAN. |
| Full
essential server suite includes e-mail, WWW, FTP, and DNS.
Control these services the way you want to! |
| Full
routing capability including packet filtering and True IP
Address Expansion. |
| LAN
connection to 10/100Mhz Ethernet or Token Ring Networks. |
| An
optional eight (8) dial-up ports allows your employees to
connect to the Internet through the Model 2500 using dial-up
modems and/or ISDN adapters. |
One
of the most difficult tasks of establishing an Internet
presence is making sure that information that needs to stay
in the office stays in the office and information that
should get out can get out. The Model 2500 removes this task
for you. All machines on your LAN are fully protected by a
firewall and hackers can't reach them. Your users can get
out but no one can get in. However, for specialized services
you may wish to establish a pass-thru. This is a
"hole" that you can poke in the firewall to allow
access to only a single service on a specific machine. Need
a RealAudio server? Install it on an NT box and tell the
Model 2500 to let traffic for the service at port 7070 go
through. As far as the Internet is concerned, all traffic
goes to and from the IP address used by the Model 2500.
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Electronic mail is one of the most popular services on the Internet. The ability to communicate with colleagues, friends, and relatives cannot be underestimated. With the Model 2500 you create mailboxes for your LAN users. They'll use a stand-alone e-mail client like Eudora or Pegasus Mail or perhaps a client in a web browser such as Netscape's Navigator to read and send e-mail. You can create aliases for mailboxes that allow different addresses to go to the same mailbox. The Model 2500's e-mail server also includes several important features. You can create mailing lists to allow communication with large groups of people. Auto responders, forwarders, and other features give you a rich variety of e-mail functionality.
Your organization may have several uses for e-mailing groups of people. Perhaps you would like to send announcements to your customers or colleagues. Or maybe the members of a department are not in close proximity and need to stay in touch. Mailing lists allow you to define topical e-mail discussion groups. Participants simply need to send e-mail to a single address and everyone who belongs on the list will see the message. You can also create moderated mailing lists.
There are many cases where having a human respond to e-mail is either not desirable or not possible. For example, if someone wants to receive information about your company's address, phone number, and so on, it doesn't make sense for someone to spend the time to retype the same information over and over again, or even copy it from a file. The Model 2500's autoresponders allow you to define an e-mail address, such as info@esoft.com that will automatically return an e-mail message containing information that you define. You can optionally specify that responders pass the message through to another destination. For example, if an employee goes on vacation, a pass through autoresponder would automatically send a message back to the sender yet retaining the sender's message for its intended recipient.
In some situations, you may wish e-mail to be re-directed to a different destination. For example, if an employee leaves your organization, they would like it e-mail destined to them could be sent to their new address. The Model 2500 allows you to create e-mail forwarders for this situation. At no time does any manual intervention need to occur.
The Model 2500 provides you with many more e-mail features, such as: Copies. The Model 2500 can automatically make copies of e-mail messages. For example, you might wish the sales team to receive all messages destined for sales@esoft.com. Rejects. You may reject messages based on the SMTP source and destination addresses.
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If you want to be on the Internet quickly, you won't get there any faster than a modem. You probably have a phone line that can be dedicated to the connection and your local dialup Internet service provider can set up an account for you within the hour. Using the Model 2500's web manager, you tell it your provider's phone number and your account user name and password. Before you know it, your office is on the Internet! eSoft uses only the highest quality modem in the Model 2500 - the 3COM (formerly US Robotics) Couriers. These modems have a proven track record for reliability and can connect to the widest range of modems. All Couriers shipped in the Model 2500 are x2 capable, so you can connect to your provider with 56K speeds. The biggest advantage to a modem connection is that it's quick to setup. The biggest disadvantage is that your connection speed can vary with phone line conditions. When purchasing a dial-up account from your Internet service provider, make sure that you buy service with a static IP address. This means that you'll always get the same IP address when you connect which is important in order for services (such as e-mail) to work properly.
An ISDN connection provides up to a 128K connection to your provider. You'll simply need an account and using the Model 2500's web manager, you tell it your provider's phone number and your user name and password. You'll be on the Internet at a brisk 128K! eSoft uses the 3COM (formerly US Robotics) I-Modem. These devices can connect to both ISDN adapters and modems. All I-Modems shipped in the Model 2500 are capable of bonding B channels at 128 Kbps with your provider, more than twice the speed of a modem! The biggest advantage to an ISDN adapter is the bonded 128K speed which is normally associated with a fractional T1 leased line. Some disadvantages include the time it takes for your telephone company to install an ISDN line and it is not even available in all areas. An ISDN line is also usually somewhat more expensive than a standard telephone line. When purchasing an ISDN account from your Internet service provider, make sure that you buy service with a static IP address. This means that you'll always get the same IP address when you call which is important in order for services (such as e-mail) to work properly.
A leased line connection allows you to connect to an ISP using the PPP or frame relay protocols. You'll simply need to specify the PPP or frame relay encapsulation using the Model 2500's web manager and you're running! The Model 2500 uses a synchronous interface that includes an internal 56K CSU/DSU. Simply connect the RJ-45 cable from the wall and you're set! For fractional and full T1 (1.54 MB) speeds, you can attach an external CSU/DSU to attach to the interface. The biggest advantage to a leased line is a fixed speed between you and your provider. Unlike a modem, the leased line is guaranteed to operate at that speed. A fractional to full T1 can provide up to 1.54MB of bandwidth, much, much more than a modem or ISDN line.
An Ethernet or Token Ring adapter allows you to separate your LAN from an existing LAN while enjoying the same bandwidth benefits. The Model 2500 uses either a second 10/100MB Ethernet or 4/16MB Token Ring adapter that you can connect to your existing LAN using standard LAN connections. The biggest advantage to an Ethernet or Token Ring feed is if you already have an existing network. You have full LAN speeds.
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IP addresses are the telephone numbers that computers on the Internet use to talk to each other. With so many computers on the Internet, there are several problems with IP addresses that go away with eSoft's True IP Address Expansion feature. True IP Address Expansion works by taking a single, real Internet IP address and breaking it down into special IP addresses that machines on your LAN use. Want to add a new machine to your LAN? Simply plug it in. There's no need to worry if you have enough and there's no one to tell. Unlike other implementations, eSoft's True IP Address Expansion works with a wide variety of applications, such as CU-SeeMe, RealAudio, RealVideo, VDOnet Live, Internet Phone, and many others. And also unlike other implementations, there is no speed degradation - you can use all of the bandwidth you pay for! And finally, True IP Address Expansion makes configuring LAN workstations quick and easy. The automatic DHCP configures your LAN workstations with their proper IP address, netmask, DNS server, and so on. There's no need for you to worry about it or manage it.
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The world wide web is one of the reasons why people want to connect to the Internet. Using a multimedia presentation of graphics, text, video, and sound, people can easily point and click their way around the Internet. The Model 2500's web server allows you to fully publish any content onto the Internet. While it does not allow you to run customized programs through CGI interfaces, several popular "canned" CGI programs are included, such as forms processing and page counters. All traffic is recorded in the CERN common logging format so any popular web log processing utility can be used to analyze traffic.
Sooner or later, you'll probably want to ask your web users for information. It might be an elaborate survey or a simple yes or no question. No matter what you need, the Model 2500's form processing will get the data in your hands. While you must design the HTML documents that define how the form is displayed to the user, the Model 2500 processes the data. You can specify that data be saved to a file in a variety of formats, such as comma-delimited, or e-mailed to you. You can also optionally send an e-mail response to the user, to let them know that the system has accepted their information.
A common piece of a web page is a page counter that shows the viewer how many times a page has been received. To the viewer and the author, it can be an indication of how popular the page is that they're looking at. The Model 2500 allows you to create page counters for any HTML document. You may create as many page counters as you wish and can control how they are displayed.
FTP is the most popular way to transfer files. Using anonymous FTP, people can use their web browsers to navigate and download files through an FTP server. You may configure the Model 2500's FTP server in a variety of ways, allowing both anonymous and individual user access. You also define a virtual root directory for each user, giving them their own domain of control on the Model 2500's file system.
DNS is the Internet telephone book. When you want to call someone on the telephone, you look up their name in the phone book and call the listed number. DNS works in the same way, allowing you to reach www.esoft.com to connect to a web site, instead of having to remember the machine's IP address (199.45.143.5). With the Model 2500, you control your own piece of the phone book, also called the domain. And furthermore, you may operate as many different domain names as you wish. The Model 2500 imposes no restrictions.
Your domain name identifies your site with an easy to remember name. You register this name with InterNIC. Once you've registered your domain name, you can add as many subdomain names as you like. For example, the domain names of most web sites begin with a www, such as www.esoft.com.
Once your LAN is connected, you'll probably want to extend it so that you or your colleagues can call in from home or on the road. Checking e-mail or browsing the web is but a phone call away! The Model 2500 includes two dial-up ports that you can connect to either a modem or ISDN adapter. You have full control over who can call up and use the ports.
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In order for information to go from one place to another, it must be routed. The Model 2500 allows you to route a full Class C address space consisting of 254 addresses. You also can configure packet filters and use eSoft's IP Address Expansion technology to route a virtually unlimited number of addresses. Finally, if your provider requires it, you can use RIP to dynamically exchange router information.
Security is an issue on the Internet. You want to make sure that information that should stay in the office stays in the office while letting public information out. Packet filtering allows you to control the details of data flow with incoming and outgoing Internet data. It's a very powerful tool that allows you to control who can and can't reach sites or services. For example, if you don't want anyone from the outside accessing CIFS on any machine on your network, you can restrict access to service ports 137 and 138 and as far as the outside world is concerned, those machines don't share files. You construct firewalls with packet filters, and they can be used in conjunction with the automatic firewall if you decide to use eSoft's IP Address Expansion technology.
IP addresses are the telephone numbers that computers on the Internet use to talk to each other. With so many computers on the Internet, there are several problems with IP addresses that go away with eSoft's True IP Address Expansion feature. True IP Address Expansion works by taking a single, real Internet IP address and breaking it down into special IP addresses that machines on your LAN use. Want to add a new machine to your LAN? Simply plug it in. There's no need to worry if you have enough and there's no one to tell. Unlike other implementations, eSoft's True IP Address Expansion works with a wide variety of applications, such as CU-SeeMe, RealAudio, RealVideo, VDOnet Live, Internet Phone, and many others. And also unlike other implementations, there is no speed degradation - you can use all of the bandwidth you pay for! And finally, True IP Address Expansion makes configuring LAN workstations quick and easy. The automatic DHCP configures your LAN workstations with their proper IP address, netmask, DNS server, and so on. There's no need for you to worry about or manage this on your own.
If you've ever
had to setup a TCP/IP machine, you know how time consuming it is.
Windows 95 will typically make you reboot a few times and then you
need to test it all to make sure that it works. To configure
Windows 95 for DHCP, you simply tell it to "get [it's] IP
address automatically". When the Windows 95 machine boots, it
will ask any DHCP server on the network for help. The Model 2500
will respond and send the workstation all of the necessary
information such as the IP address, netmask, DNS server, and so
on. DHCP frees you from both the fuss of configuring machines and
keeping track of who has used IP addresses. down into special IP
addresses that machines on your LAN use. Want to add a new machine
to your LAN? Simply plug it in. There's no need to worry if you
have enough and there's no one to tell. Unlike other
implementations, eSoft's True IP Address Expansion works with a
wide variety of applications, such as CU-SeeMe, RealAudio,
RealVideo, VDOnet Live, Internet Phone, and many others. And also
unlike other implementations, there is no speed degradation - you
can use all of the bandwidth you pay for! And finally, True IP
Address Expansion makes configuring LAN workstations quick and
easy. The automatic DHCP configures your LAN workstations with
their proper IP address, netmask, DNS server, and so on. There's
no need for you to worry about it or manage it.
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