Rio,
> If so, is there a 'best model'? I suspect the NAT model would be what we need.
>
Or do the NAT on your firewall and use DR.
> The control box would be a 2 processor dual-core opteron so it effectively
> would have 4 processors and maybe 8gb or more ram.
>
Good grief! Why not just use 2 servers P4, 1GB RAM (or less) control
boxes as a high availability pair?
> Do you think we could get away with one 'control' box considering the
> bandwidth usage? All internal networks are gigabit. If needed we can easily
> feed the control box via more than one 'public' interface separated by
> networks.
>
DR yes, NAT probably you said 70GB/mo each? doesn't sound a lot and
doesn't mean much how many GB/s & connections/s?
>
> Once I have some guidelines, I will know where/how to study and begin
> implementation/testing. At this moment I am ignorant of clustering
> technology, I only have an idea what I want to do.
>
>
Always a good way to start.
Regards,
Malcolm.
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