RE: [WinMac] Routing ethernet to another network

Subject: RE: [WinMac] Routing ethernet to another network
From: Wilcox, Curtis (cwilcox[at]esm.rochester.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 23 2002 - 10:04:37 EDT

My suggestion, like Darryl and Tim, would be to get a cable/dsl router. Get
one with only 1 LAN port then buy a switch that's large enough to support
the number of systems you have. If the systems are all on a switch,
AppleTalk for stuff like printing, won't be interfered with. Plus the switch
can be 100Mbit for fast file transfers within your network. Typically the
cable/DSL routers are 10Mbit which is plenty for that connection but can
impede internal network performance.

What do you want to be able to do with the computers on this network and how
small is it? If you want to run servers or something beyond having the
computers just "surf the net," we might refine our suggestions. While you're
shopping for such things, have you thought about wireless? The cable/DSL
routers that double as wireless access points aren't that much more
expensive, work with Apple Airport cards, and gives a laptop user greater
mobility. Of course wireless only makes sense if you've got at least one
laptop and an area small enough to be covered by the one access point.

Since you mentioned internet connection sharing software, Macs can use a
connection shared by a Windows computer. For Mac OS 9, IPNetRouter is *the*
program to use for sharing a connection. OS X has the capability built-in
but no pretty interface to configure it. The company that makes IPNetRouter
has a free beta of a program to make the configuration easy.

http://www.sustworks.com/site/prod.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Scoff [mailto:tim@scoff.net]
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 7:41 PM
> To: winmac@iffy.com
> Subject: Re: [WinMac] Routing ethernet to another network
>
>
> The inexpensive $150 routers which are aimed at DSL and cable
> modem customers will do what you want, but they will also block
> AppleTalk in the process.
>
> Are you sure that a hub won't do what you need?
>
> >We have Ethernet coming in through the wall and would like
> to have all
> >the computers on our small network access the internet through the
> >single ethernet jack. I know this is possible fo DSL and Cable with
> >routers, but when researching Ethernet->Ethernet routers, I was
> >surprised to see them cost $1,000+.
> >
> >I suppose a software routing solution is the only option. Please,
> >someone recommend some programs that would allow internet connection
> >sharing. If there are any inexpensive hardware routers that do
> >Ethernet->Ethernet, please let me know too. I'm not too
> experienced with
> >Macs, so any help would be appreciated.

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