On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 10:55 pm, gswilson wrote:
I think I need a router box for the iMac and I presume a TCP number to punch
into the iMac but I'm short on the detail. What make of router box would do
the job?
I'd strongly recommend a hardware router over a software solution running on either box. I went the software route for several years, which required constant maintenance (new version every time the host machine was upgraded to a new OS, configuration hassles, etc), and had the disadvantage that one machine always needs to be on for the other to see the internet. The hardware box just works - end of story.
Personally I'm using a "NetLINE Broadband Gateway/45" from Farallon, but pretty well any will probably do - the standards are fairly well established. If you go for another though, the buzzwords to watch out for are:
NAT support (for actually doing the connection sharing, and making all your machines look like one so far as your provider is concerned)
DHCP server support (means you shouldn't have to type in TCP numbers to any of the machines, as addresses are dished out by the router).
firewall (mostly to protect the windows box ;-)
web based configuration (in case you need to do anything more complex than a basic setup later, this lets you talk to it from either client with a web browser)
configurable MAC address (you may need to use a router than can pretend to be the ethernet card you registered with your ISP - but you can probably just register the routers address with your ISP instead)
hope this helps, Christopher
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