>I don't know how much about wireless. Certainly it's easier, but probably more >expensive and maybe less secure (at least you'd have to think about those >things).
We are still thinking about how to lay things out yet wireless vs. LAN. so far wireless is cheaper. for some oddball reason it is very expensive to hardwire the building. I have heard figures at forty grand??? >It shouldn't be terribly hard to wire the building yourself, depending on how >it's built. I'd be happy to offer advice about that. I would think it would >only take a week or less, and less than $4000 in equipment. I have never anything so I am out of my league on that one.. >If you do get DSL, the Cisco 678 you'll get will do NAT, DHCP, and packet >filtering (a little) for you. I will look at that !! Thanks. >You may still have use for a Linux >router/firewall box, but you probably don't need static IP addresses. The one >dynamic one that comes with basic service will probably do. If you want to run >servers, that's a different story, but just to get students on the net you don't >need your own block of IPs. I am just itching' to bring Linux in here ..we are all Microsoft. >I don't see any reason to run your own servers. There are plenty of free email >services where students can get accounts (maybe even from the school). If you >let the DSL modem do DHCP, you won't have to worry about DNS and such too much. Thats all takin care. Running Imail on a NT box. >Admittedly I've never done this on this scale, so there may be problems I don't >forsee. But I have done some shoestring installs like this before. I think I am going to find out! Thanks Dave for the input! Roger _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
