Rouwen, Martijn wrote:
> Cause windooze isn't stable enough and I will have acces to the Internet
> by a cable-modem ( If anything goes right) soon I'm planning to build a
> little LAN at home,
My first suggestion: Don't use the 300MHz machine as your
gateway. I
use a 486dx2/66, and it keeps up just fine as a gateway, web
server,
and firewall.
In my experience, the cable modem is about 10-20x faster
than
a 33.6 modem, and gets real slow the further you get from
the
server your are using. In Hawaii, we have an OC3 line to
Atlanta,
which makes RedHat real quick to download, but if I go to
a site in Poland, it's dog slow.
> I'm plannig to use an Linux pc as a gateway and also as Samba Server.
Don't use the gateway as a file server, either.
> Here is my second question about. Last week a read a mail about a NIC
> that was very good with Linux. I don't know the brand anymore. Something
> with King????? Can someone tell me what the name is? And how much they
> plus/minus cost?
I mostly use LinkSys NICs. I have three 3Coms, and they
work fine.
At the school where I'm teaching Linux, three of the 21
computers won't talk to the network (they worked in
Windows).
I like LinkSys because you can turn off Plug and Pray, and
they cost
about US$20 for the ISA cards and US$35 for the PCI cards.
George
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