Lars,
If you're on a cable modem, your ISP should have the firewalls in place.
>From what I understand, even having a "real" IP like I do is rather rare
on most setups. And IIRC you have to have a "real" xxx.xxx.xxx.xx IP to
even have to worry about people getting through to you. And my ISP's
firewalls protect all the IPs the server holds.
Just thought you might want to do a bit more homework before spending
money you may not need to spend.
As for Arachne running with any of those hardware add ons, I don't see
any problem. I never had one. Where the problem lies, and did for me,
was in getting DOS recognized and used by the NIC. These new NICs are
"smart" and like to think on their own ... but to get them thinking you
may have to "install" and thankfully 3Com *DOES* provide DOS
installation on their cards. :> However, if you are running anything
other than MS-DOS you might have problems. And my 3Com NIC required
that I use a version of HIMEM.SYS from DOS 6.2 or higher. I had it, and
am using setver to run that version in my primarily DOS5 setup. Mind
you, SETVER warns you not to use any versions of program newer than
itself, but I've never had any problems.
l.d.
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On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 20:06:41 +0200, Lars Wigrell wrote:
> Hello everybody!
> Within a few days now I will hopefully be connected to Internet via
> cable. I've alreday got the cable modem (a Motorola SurfBoard SB4100),
> but the network board I wanted, a 3Com 3C905B-TX-M, was temporary out of
> stock.
> I'm also planning buying some kind of firewall. When browsing the market,
> I've found that price for each of the four models I've been looking at is
> almost the same. The difference is only about $30 from the cheapest to
> the most expensive one.
> The four models I've been looking at is D-Link DI-701, DI-704, DI-804
> and USRobotics 8000. What makes the USR 8000 an interesting choice is
> the built-in serial port, and a built-in printer server.
> Now, here's something for you guys: Is there any known issues with any
> of the above equipment and Arachne?
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