The LB-2 is a firewall and a router with 2 WAN ports that combines high bandwidth sharing solutions, network security, load balance and redundancy. It's a perfect choice for small and medium businesses. It also has network management features that are essential for an efficient and safe security policy. All at a price that you can afford.
Integrated firewall and network solution in one device. The LB-2 comes with packet inspection, NAT, intruder detection, URL filter, control and block access features and distinct user policies (5 different user groups). The LB-2 supports most of the popular high bandwidth connections, including cable, DSL, static and dynamic IP and PPPoE. It is a 4-port switch and DHCP server/client that provides safe internet connection sharing.
Economy, speed and stability The LB-2 has 2 redundant WAN ports that offer a powerful load balance function. It allows you to trade a high cost internet connection for two high bandwidth connections (more economical). With both connections working at the same, the LB-2 will take advantage of the two connections speeds simultaneously with load balancing. It can offer connection failover so that every time one connection fails the LB-2 will use the other automatically. It is also an ideal product for those who need QoS (Quality of Service), being able to establish priority traffic for critical applications.
The LB-2 uses 2 high performance WAN ports. Those 2 WAN ports allow: Redundancy and automatic failover on both high bandwidth connections QoS (Quality of Service), being able to assign how internet sharing is divided between both connections. Load Balance Internet Traffic
The LB-2 is a 4 LAN 10/100 port switch for you to share your cable/DSL connection with up to 253 users on your LAN (using additional switches and/or hubs).
The LB-2 incorporates a high performance firewall to protect your business or home network. It features SPI packet inspection which detects and blocks DoS (Denial of Service) and other malicious attacks.
The NAT (Network Address Translation) feature performs the translation of network addresses and ports. This ensures the privacy of your internal network IPs and requires only one internet IP for your entire network.
The LB-2 allows you to block and control access to undesirable sites. This prevents users from improperly using the internet at work.
The DMZ (demilitarized zone) feature supports applications that demand bidirectional data transmission over the internet, and also allows a server/PC on the LAN to act as an independent node that communicates with the internet in both directions, like web servers. Except for the DMZ, bidirectional communication with the internet is not allowed by the firewall.
The Virtual Server feature, with port forwarding, allows sharing LAN services, such as email and FTP. With this feature external users can access specific services on your LAN.
The LB-2 allows to map multiple internet IPs addresses to LAN computers/Servers through the NAT Alias, which will allow the specified TCP/IP ports or servers to be permited for the mappings or Multi-DMZ feature.
With the LB-2 you can create up to 5 distinct user groups with distinct internet access and policies. For example, you can create a group with full access, one that can access only the internet and email, and another that doesnt have any kind of internet connection.
The LB-2 can act as a DHCP server for your network. It can manage up to 253 IPs.
The LB-2 allows passing VPN connections (PPTP, L2TP, IPSec) through the equipment. It does not interfere with VPN tunnels between internal and external users/servers.
The LB2 supports internet communication applications such as games, VoIP, and conferences that are usually hard to use behind a firewall. The support for special applications allows the use of some non-standard applications, where each port used to respond is different from the port used to issue a request.
If you have a dynamic IP address, which changes at each connection or some other interval, the DDNS feature stops you from having to change the IP address manually on your equipment. This way remote access, VPNs, and other services that depend on IP addresses are not interrupted.
Graphical User Interface (GUI) accessible via web browser Supports UPnP (Universal Plug & Play) Setup Wizard Easy configuration through any browser on the LAN Remote management through a web browser (LAN or WAN) Firmware updates through HTTP or TFTP
Supported operating systems: Windows 98/2000/XP Mac Linux
High bandwidth internet with access modem: Cable modem PPPoE Static and dynamic IP
A computer with a standard Ethernet network card is needed for the initial configuration. Internet Explorer 4 or higher is required.
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