Thankyou very much,
on 9/13/02 1:55 AM, Philip Stortz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > generally, a mac can have as many ethernet cards/ports as you wish. > it's common to use an older mac with 2 ethernet cards or a built in > ethernet and a card as a hardware firewall, usually under *nix in this > case but even in the various versions of the mac os you can have more > than one, you just have to tell appletalk, tcp/ip etc. which one to use. > you can connect 2 macs directly without a hub. in this case you use a > cross over cable between an ethernet card in the tower and the notebook, > assuming you don't also want the modem connected at the same time. if > you do want the modem connected as well, then you do need a > router/switch, and one that includes a firewall is a very, very good > idea on a cable modem. most people on cable modems who have checked > their firewall logs report 3 or 4 incursion attempts a day. true, they > are usually looking for a pc, but macs have vulnerabilities as well if > the potential intruder knows what they are doing. then again, i'm > biased against cable modems in general because of the near total lack of > security/privacy on most such systems, it's very easy on most of them > for someone to monitor all of the traffic in their neighborhood at > least, you're basically on a big lan with other people near by. but > many people are very happy with their cable modems. > > as far as fire wire, you may be able to boot the tower into "target" > mode, which makes it's drives available to another machine via fire wire > but beyond that the tower just sits there. > > -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
