8/20 Please submit cheap and easy way for my 1 @home machine to give
access to other machines in home?
\_ buy a cheap router (~$100) ... or put dual NICs in one of your
machines and have it act as a proxy
\_ Assuming you have a static IP, get a Linksys router. I got one
with 8 10/100 ports and setting it up is really simple. I've heard
that if you don't have a static IP the Linksys sucks. -eric
\_ but there is a number of similar products from netgear, smc,
d-link, etc. check out http://www.practicallynetworked.com
\_ Don't bother. @home is going belly up any minute now.
\_ So this is cool. I had: @Home, then @Home + DSL (Northpoint).
Northpoint goes boom, they put me on Rhythms (about 2 months
ago). Rhythms goes boom. They're moving me to Covad now.
Let's see if @Home can live until my Covad lights up, but
before Covad fails to get their required funding to live till
2002. Argh.
\_ Free: Install 2 NIC, enable connection sharing in windows for
NIC attached to @home. Totally insecure... Or go buy your favorite
386 on ebay, install OpenBSD, nat, firewall, etc...
\_ A machine in the P150, PII 266 or SS20 range will be much
better than a 386, since you will be able to apply patches
and rebuild faster.
\_ Oh blarg. Just pay $80 for a router/hub/firewall and be done with
it. I love my SMC Barricade--even has DHCP server, and can do
PPPoE for my DSL connection. |