[thechat] 2 Mac questions

Martin Burns martin at easyweb.co.uk
Fri Oct 3 16:38:07 CDT 2003


On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 11:13  pm, Kevin Stevens wrote:

>> So these mac things then, are we talking about OS9 or OSX? The 
>> answers are
>> gonna vary depending which operating system we're talking about, but 
>> I'll
>> give it a shot.
>
> Since found out it's OSX

As mentioned on #evolt, if it's 10.2, it's even easier as you've got 
built in Windows networking.

>> ObTechResponse: Depends what you mean by 'network' *:)
>
> They mainly want to share a broadband connection, seems they pull the 
> plug
> out of one machine and stick it in the other, not exactly ideal.

Yeeach. Not ideal.

What I've done at home with my mixed Win/Mac network is to have a wee 
Linksys cable/DSL router
(I've got the one port model - the BEFSR11 - with originally a simple 
hub but now the Linksys 16 port switch), which handles firewalling, NAT 
and DHCP. All the stuff you need. You can pick all this stuff up in PC 
world fairly cheaply.

Connection sharing is *OK* if you've got 2 ethernet ports[1], but not 
really something you want to do unless there's no alternative. I'm 
doing that at the moment for my dialup connection until our exchange 
gets upgraded to ADSL capability in a week or so.

[1] or 1 ethernet port plus USB if the BB's ADSL coming in via USB. 
Again, not ideal. Ethernet is way preferable.

Cheers
Martin

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