[WinMac] Re: Win & Mac sharing a cable modem together

Susan McNab(smcnab[at]twics.com)
Fri, 04 Feb 2000 12:00:20 +0900

Does anyone have experience hooking up multiple Windows and Mac machines to
one cable modem? I have two Macs and three Windows machines that I would
like to hook up this way. Since I am basically using them for testing Web
content on different operating systems we are looking at Win95/98/NT
Workstation/Server, MacOS various flavours in English and Japanese. (Yes, I
get confused)..

Right now I have one Mac on a cable modem and am using an ISDN TA with a
built in LAN to connect the other machines, using DAVE for the Macs to
connect with the Win boxes. My cable connection is faster and cheaper so I
want to use that for most of my connections instead of the ISDN.

I am thinking that I should choose one of my machines (probably a wintel
box) as a gateway. Use one NIC for the cable modem and another for the LAN
which will connect together the Macs and other Windows machines. I have
briefly looked at IPNetRouter for the Mac, Sygate (NAT), Internet Gateway
6.0 (NAT), Wingate and WinProxy for Windows.
(http://www.speedguide.net/Cable_modems/cable_lans.shtml)

I want to complicate matters by trying to use TZO to enable a server on my
network to deliver content over the Web for testing and demonstrations using
PHP and Cold Fusion. ( => TZO Service provides you with an unchanging domain
name (a name like YOURNAME.COM) so that someone else can connect to your
computer through your domain name, despite the fact that your computer's IP
address changes each time you connect to your ISP. http://www.tzo.com/). I
am not expecting to host a Web site with millions of hits this way. This set
up is a whole lot cheaper than any other alternative I have come across.
Dedicated hosting and lines are out of my budget range at the moment.

While I have been developing Web content at work for years with other people
maintaining the servers, I have never set up anything like this at home
before. I wonder what is the best approach? Should the server software be
installed on the gateway machine?

Has anyone used Wingate and WinProxy with a cable modem? Would it be better
to get M$ Proxy Server 1.0? Has anyone tried this kind of combination using
a cable modem to supply a Mac/Win LAN with Internet connections and serve
Web content using a service like TZO simultaneously? I would greatly
appreciate and hints, advice or discussion on this subject.

Sue McNab

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