if the matter is just typing login and passwd you can define local users in Cisco so that everytime you do not need to run to look a username and passwd, The other best way is to use the CERT Terminal, Expect is best option but you need to learn tha...
I believe rate-limit and traffic shae deals with IP address and MAC address, if you want to limit bandwith on some specific user then you have to look at contant base solutions, or some freeware softwares. like www.squid-cache.org. but if you want to...
To me there is no need of tunneling, as if you have a ethernet connection beetween both offices. You can just move the machine to your next LAN sagment and it should work, assuming that your traffic gateway is your Frame-Relay Router. If this is not...
Forgive me all the Guru, But i know a Simple Solution for this,ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 s0ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 s1Cisco IOS has a Built in Load Balancing Capability in Static Routes Also. This should resolve the issue.Regards