|
|
 |
 |
 |
|
|
|||
|
||||
|
||||
|
Re: routers
From: Richard Chudacoff, MD (rchudacoff@mylinuxisp.com)
Mon, 11 Jun 2001 16:10:51 -0500
- Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]
- Next message: Larry Glazerman: "Re: routers"
- Previous message: Eberhard Lisse: "Re: routers"
- In reply to: Eberhard Lisse: "Re: routers"
- Next in thread: Larry Glazerman: "Re: routers"
Okay, I have a five-port system called a Kingston EtheRx SOHO hub. I hook the cable into the router, the router into the EtheRx (which has five ports) and the Mac and PC into two of the other ports? Do in need to use the first three in sequence or can they be any which one?Rick
-- Richard Chudacoff, MD-----Original Message----- From: techtalk@medispecialty.com [mailto:techtalk@medispecialty.com]On Behalf Of Eberhard Lisse Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 3:44 PM To: Multiple recipients of list TECHTALK Subject: Re: routers
Richard,
In message <LAEEJEBMFIKDMOCFFABMIEHGCOAA.rchudacoff@mylinuxisp.com>, "Richard C hudacoff, MD" writes:
> I have a MAC G3 and a PC at home, the latter is the kids > computer. The Mac is hooked up to cable, but the PC uses a dial-up > connection. Can I attach the cable to a router and hook up both > computers to the cable?
Actually you connect the router to the cable and then it depends on whether you have enough ports on the router to hook up the PC and the Mac. I would suggest you get a cheap ethernet hub which you hook to the router and hook the PC and the Mac into. That leaves you the option of adding hardware if you ever want to.
But that's expensive. There is something called the Linux Router Project, where all software you need fits on one floppy and you can run it on a 4MB 386 if you really want to. Though a 32MB '486 with a 200 MB hard disk is quite OK too :-)-O
My home box, linux.lisse.na aka http://www.lisse.na sits on an ethernet at present but was on a leased line before I went overseas. My wife's Mac was wired to the ethernet card. I used a modem for nostalgic reasons (the one we used the connect the country to the net) but the principle remains. Next year we'll have two more and a lap top, so we'll take such a hub with. But, I then will not purchase a router (I actually own a CISCO 6000 but I use it elsewhere) but configure linux as a router/firewall on my slowest/smallest box.
On one of the others SAMBA which makes it look like a Windows NT server but without crashing so often (and it cen serve two (four?) printers with software PostScript emulation), and netatalk so it looks like a Mac server which doesn't crash so often anyway :-)-O And for those really pesky programs running under 'Doze only, such as the German Tax filing program, I'll run VMware Express. Not bad. MySQL as the data base and there are tools to access this on Mac and 'doze.
el
- Next message: Larry Glazerman: "Re: routers"
- Previous message: Eberhard Lisse: "Re: routers"
- In reply to: Eberhard Lisse: "Re: routers"
- Next in thread: Larry Glazerman: "Re: routers"
|
Return to |
List Requests to TechTalk-request@obgyn.net Last Updated |