[WinMac] RE: Proxy Server Software--Small LAN--Recommendations?


John Santora(tenor[at]passport.ca)
Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:26:30 -0500


I know you said you want to set up the proxy (or software router) on a PC,
but don't discount setting it up on the Mac side, if you have a Mac that can
stay on all the time. I did the same research, and I've been running
IPNetRouter ( http://www.sustworks.com )on a Performa 5200 for 6 months now,
serving a cable modem to 2 PowerBooks, 3 PCs, and itself, as well as
LaserWriter Bridge for the Macs to see my HP 6MP (PCs hook up through the
parallel port). IPNetRouter is bulletproof, there is no detectable
performance hit on the Performa -- and it's only $89.

John Santora
Toronto, Canada

Leary, David wrote:
>
> Cable Modems (two-way) just became available in my area and I am
> going to have one installed at home in about two weeks.
>
> All the information I have, including the cable modem company say I
> can share the service among a mixture of PCs and Macs over a LAN
> using proxy
> server software. I have started looking into this and there are a *lot* of
> proxy server programs out there.
>
> I need to connect five machines (could probably limit this to 3
> using the internet connection at once) 1 or 2 Mac and 3 or 4 PC.
>
> I need to decide which proxy server program to use on a Windows 95
> or 98 host machine. The major contenders seem to be Winproxy.net,

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