At my company we want to give certain people (users in our Windows 2003 Active Directory) limited access to the Internet. That is, block all ports except 80 (web) and only provide access to a list of aproved sites, while other users should have irrestricted access.
Also, since the company has grown very dependant on Internet, we need to have 2 ISP in case one fails, which has been happening a lot recently.
We have 2 servers right now, one which is a Core 2 Duo with 2 GB of RAM that we use as a file server & application server for an accounting software.
The other server (Pentium 4, 3 Ghz with 512 of ram) we use as a mail server with mail daemon. It works perfectly well in that function.
What I was thinking about doing is to move the Mdaemon server to the Core 2 duo with 2 GB of ram, since it should be more than enough to handle all the services and use the "slow" Pentium 4 (upgrading it to 1 GB of RAM) as Router, DHCP server, firewall and load balancing server with ISA server 2006 under Windows 2003.
Does ISA server have the capabilitie to establish rules of Internet access based on users? Can a machine like this handle the load balancing in both software and hardware?
We don't have too many traffic and currently we have a Linksys BEFSR41 ver. 3 which works OK with just one ISP.
Do you guys think this will work out? I can't buy a great cisco router since they are too expensive for our company and I don't trust Linksys/d-link routers for this kind of operation....
Thanks for your ideas.
Also, since the company has grown very dependant on Internet, we need to have 2 ISP in case one fails, which has been happening a lot recently.
We have 2 servers right now, one which is a Core 2 Duo with 2 GB of RAM that we use as a file server & application server for an accounting software.
The other server (Pentium 4, 3 Ghz with 512 of ram) we use as a mail server with mail daemon. It works perfectly well in that function.
What I was thinking about doing is to move the Mdaemon server to the Core 2 duo with 2 GB of ram, since it should be more than enough to handle all the services and use the "slow" Pentium 4 (upgrading it to 1 GB of RAM) as Router, DHCP server, firewall and load balancing server with ISA server 2006 under Windows 2003.
Does ISA server have the capabilitie to establish rules of Internet access based on users? Can a machine like this handle the load balancing in both software and hardware?
We don't have too many traffic and currently we have a Linksys BEFSR41 ver. 3 which works OK with just one ISP.
Do you guys think this will work out? I can't buy a great cisco router since they are too expensive for our company and I don't trust Linksys/d-link routers for this kind of operation....
Thanks for your ideas.