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

Richard Laycock(rlaycock[at]home.com)
Thu, 3 Feb 2000 23:06:16 -0800

>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)...
>

>
>Sue McNab
>

Sue,

I'm running 2 Macs & 2 pcs (W95 & NT) using IPNetRouter & @Home on one of
the Macs. It works perfectly. I have managed and/or setup small LANs using
Wingate as well. For your purposes I'd suggest the IPNetRouter setup.

The Mac is a more secure gateway especially if you use the twin NIC setup
you mentioned. IPNetRouter uses NAT which makes the client setup a snap.
Sygate is also a NAT gateway although their new product pricing would make
them more expensive for you than IPNetRouter. BTW, my @Home service is a
static IP actually. I'm running a Webstar server behind the gateway
providing ftp or http file access for clients or for myself when on the
road. It's not really allowed in the "Terms of Use". For low volume use you
won't get any flak from the ISP. If you're lucky you can get Telocity for
your ISP. They provide static IPs and have no prohibitions to setting up
servers or registering a domain name for your account.

                              Richard Laycock

                                  rlaycock@home.com

                                       El Cajon, California

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