Rich Davies at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi, name's Rich and I'm the web developer for a small marketing/design firm
> in Maine. I have recently been given additional duties involving maintaining
> our small Mac LAN, and I'm wondering if some kind person can help me out.
>
> Here's the situation:
>
> We've got cable service running into a WGS 6150/66. That machine is running
> 'SoftRouter Plus' from Vicomsoft, routing internet access to the entire
> network.
>
> Another machine on the network, a WGS 60, is running a program called
> 'MacDNS', and is providing IP numbers to all machines on the LAN.
>
> What I want to know is this; can a Cable/DSL router, such as the MacSense
> MIH-130 (<http://www.xsense.com/Product/mih130_b.html>), perform these
> functions (routing & IP # serving) as well as being a firewall? My hunch is
> that it can, but I'm just looking for some confirmation from those who know
> more than I about this stuff.
Oh, I love this, getting back to someone Down East! Anyway, for the
functions you list, yes, the MacSense or another box from Asante at:
http://www.asante.com/ can do the job. Asante has a wonderfully
informative set of web pages and a downloadable manual so you can see how
easy this is. If you want something with more flexibility than a hardware
router and perhaps more robust in software than your old SoftRouter, you
could check into IPNetRouter and related products at:
http://www.sustworks.com/ IPNetRouter is shareware, but you can use the
downloaded software for free for 30 days or so. The most robust
configuration is to have the software reside on one Mac with two ethernet
ports.
--
Al Poulin (originally from Winslow, ME)
Anger, hate, and revenge are for the devil, forgiveness is for God,
self-defense is for the rest of us.
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