Eagle,
Can you provide a bit more information about IPNetRouter? What sort of
software package is it and where can it be found? Will it provide the
service I want on my LC 475? (see previous message, Subject: Modems and
Routers and Hubs - Oh, My!)
Also, are you, like my acquaintance Merlin, living backwards in time?
(Eagle sez: "As was pointed out in a similar discussion next week, ...")
Sp00ky
At 04:42 PM 6/24/2002 -0400, Eagle wrote:
>On Monday, June 24, 2002, at 04:39 , dan_A wrote:
> >>> It'll cost as much to get the software as it would to buy a
> >>> hardware router, and the hardware router will be faster and
> >>> use less electricity.
> >>
> >> It does give the added ability to have LocalTalk-only Macs online,
> >> though. That's something an ethernet-only router won't do.
> >>
> >> Eagle
> >
> > --
> > So, if I can get my SE/30 up and running I can add it in to the mix
> > without getting an ethernet card for it?
>
>If you have a LocalTalk network AND an ethernet network, and you can run
>IPNetRouter on the machine connected to both networks, yes, you can use
>IPNetRouter to get your LocalTalk-only computers online.
>
>Be warned, though:
>1- this is very slow
>2- it is probably not cost effective
>
>As was pointed out in a similar discussion next week, it also requires
>the ability to add a static route, to your LocalTalk IP subnet, in your
>cable/DSL router.
>
>Eagle
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