At 02:53 1999-11-30 , you wrote:
>
>Rhett R. Rodewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> 2) Get MiamiDX and use your Amiga as the gateway. (preferred) This is
>how
>> I am set up now. It has several benefits. It allows me to have more than
>> one other client on my LAN, and it is more secure than WinBlows.
>
>The only snag there is that Miami (and particularly MiamiDx) is also a lot
>better at doing the client stuff as well as operating as a server.
>
>I've been having to use a PC while my Amiga's unwell, and I've been amazed
>to find how much you take for granted using Miami, etc.
>For instance, using mIRC (PC IRC client) via a proxy it just won't do
>outgoing file transfers at all!
<OT SEMI="on">
Actually you can write /dcc chat <ip> in mIRC ;) and totally bypass the
server and the incoming TCP connect that would occur using a normal DCC
chat/send.
Only works if the other party is using mIRC 5.5+ 'tho and have the "DCC
server" option enabled (this is a feature i'd like to see in AmIRC as it
completely bypasses server lag:)
(And i can grab my girlfriends IP off ICQ and then DCC her without having
to connect to any net (main use) ;)
If you use WinRoute as a relay to the internet, you can stick 10 mIRC's on
10 computers behind it and simply allocate 10 ports for each computer using
the portmapping, and ofcourse you have to set which port range in mIRC to
use for DCC listen ports. Same goes with the official ICQ where you also
can specify a listening range for incoming TCP connections.
</OT>
>Yet doing it from the Amiga using AmIRC and
>Miami, it's all entirely transparent. I thought it might be NAT that was
>causing the problem, so I installed one of the Socks patches on the PC (to
>allow you to do Socks instead of using NAT) and that was no better.
>
>And of course under Miami(Dx) you can switch between using plain NAT and
>Socks in an instant. If you want to turn Socks on and off on a PC, you have
>to reboot it...
Hmm.. With WinRoute you simply uncheck an option, no reboot needed, however
all sockets will be reset and you will get disconnected for a few secs from
whatever you're doing (IRC maybe)
Same goes for it's DNS, DHCP, SOCKS, POP3 and SMTP servers
>The only real solution is for all the machines to be Amigas :-)
True ;)
I wish mine was fast enough ;) can't get the serial port over 56Kbps :/
Or the graphics over 640x256, but then my eyes will die of the flicker.
I've 'degraded' my 50Mhz AGA amiga to a web and ftp server instead :)
>In a situation where you have to use PCs, though, it's really going to
>depend what you want to do - there are advantages and disadvantages to doing
>it each way round.
I use my Amiga mainly to run wu-ftpd and AmigaWebServer on, and some other
smaller homemade services (like a mIRC DCC Server (written in ARexx;)
running on port 59; i use it to remote control the Amiga from mIRC (i would
use AmIRC if i had a monitor+gfx card+a faster CPU; nothing beats AmIRC:))
>Rob
Fredrik Berglund
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