[leaf-user] What's the difference?

2004-02-28 Thread Terry Erickson
You said: I was just wondering, what is the difference between having a LEAF box and just going out and buying a hardware router for fifty bucks. I answer: I have a $59 Linksys router and I forwarded some ports so that my friends could play America's Army. It's the game from US Army. Then after

RE: [leaf-user] What's the difference between LEAF and hardware router?

2004-02-28 Thread joah moat
A few days ago I posted: I was just wondering, what is the difference between having a LEAF box and just going out and buying a hardware router for fifty bucks. I have since received many valuable replies. I did receive one reply from a gentleman that I would like to post here for the LEAF a

RE:[leaf-user] What's the difference between LEAF and hardware router?

2004-02-28 Thread joah moat
I appreciate all the input I've received for this thread. I have had a chance to put things into my own perspective. I believe the greatest advantage LEAF has over a generic routers IS awareness. In principle, most of us would prefer to have a relative awareness of our surrounding: be it at h

[leaf-user] ISP and DNS issues

2004-02-28 Thread John Wittenberg
A few weeks back, our ISP decided that they were going to upgrade the mail servers. On the day they were upgraded we could no longer access the mail servers. My wife, who was and still may be extremely pissed, spent two days with the Technicians who could not help. At the end of the second da

Re: [leaf-user] ISP and DNS issues

2004-02-28 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 02:46 PM 2/28/2004 -0800, John Wittenberg wrote: A few weeks back, our ISP decided that they were going to upgrade the mail servers. On the day they were upgraded we could no longer access the mail servers. My wife, who was and still may be extremely pissed, spent two days with the Technici

Re: [leaf-user] ISP and DNS issues

2004-02-28 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
John Wittenberg wrote: The real question becomes, why when using the mail server name when connected direct from XP it works, where as having the LEAF box connected using the mail server name does not work. Is there some difference when using the ISP DNS versus going through the LEAF box with