From andy at petdance.com Tue May 19 20:52:25 2009 From: andy at petdance.com (Andy Lester) Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 22:52:25 -0500 Subject: [Chicago-announce] UniForum: Business Linux Routers Message-ID: <25A0A5C3-B43C-4192-821A-2CCA9DF5B90E@petdance.com> If you don't want to receive these announcements via e-mail please send me a note at wsmith at etc.com. -Randy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Implementation of Business Linux Routers Joe Flasch Tuesday, May 26th, 2009, 7:00-9:00pm Illinois Institute of Technology, Rice Campus, Wheaton, IL, Room 103 Abstract -------- When it comes to routing and networking, Cisco is huge, but there is a new kid on the block that has many of the features that Cisco has for a fraction of the price. This is not something that the mid-size businesses have taken advantage of, but you can inexpensively build yourself some fully redundant machines that can route, firewall, and load balance 100-400 mbps with ease, and have the potential to do much more. In this presentation Joe will show what you need to start and how to configure and implement hardware and Linux to be mid-range routers, firewalls and load balancers for a mid-size business. Cisco and others have some serious networking competition from Linux. Speaker Bio ----------- Joe has been working with TCP/IP and Linux for the last 17 years for companies like Sears, Advantis, IBM Global Network, AT&T, LIDP and Encyclopaedia Britannica. He has been programming mainframes, and Unix and embedded systems, along with playing system administrator for OS and hardware. Joe's experience with network communications ranges from serial to ISP to large web shop environments. As Director of Operations and Networking Lead at Britannica, he has led the charge to replace an aging group of 7500-7700 Cisco routers, RainWall, Cisco ASA firewalls, and F5 BIG-IP equipment with off-the-shelf Tyan 1U machines running Linux for a cost savings of over $100,000 with better performance and uptime. Getting There ------------- The next meeting of UniForum Chicago will be from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at the Illinois Institute of Technology Rice campus. The address of the meeting facility is: IIT's Rice Campus Room 103 201 East Loop Road, Wheaton, Illinois 60187 Take I-88 west to the Naperville Road exit (Note: this exit was recently reconfigured). Turn right at the stoplight from the exit ramp going North on Freedom Drive. Turn right again at the next stoplight (which is only a few hundred feet away) going East on Warrenville Road. Move immediately into the left lane and turn left (North) at the next stoplight, which is Naperville Road. Go North on Naperville Road to Butterfield/Rt. 56. Turn right on Butterfield and proceed East to the next stoplight East (East Loop Road). Turn north onto East Loop Road (Big Bowl/Cozymel's Restaurants and Phillip's 66 Gas Station on the corners); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road. Park in the student parking lot behind the building. Room 103 is the first room inside the north entrance. More detailed directions and maps are available at: http://www.rice.iit.edu/directions.html http://www.rice.iit.edu/floorplan.html All UniForum Chicago general meetings are open to the public free of charge. For additional information contact president at uniforum.chi.il.us, or visit the UniForum Chicago web site at: http://www.uniforum.chi.il.us/