Thanks for the suggestion Onno - intriguing option.
The down-side of the cheap option is of course that the host Mac
would need to be on all the time and if it died or was re-started,
the other Macs would lose connectivity.
As such, I think Dad will probably go for the DSL-500 or 504 from
Westnet and have a more robust, secure option.
Thanks everyone.
ciao
-Mart
At 5:55 PM +0800 2/9/03, Onno Benschop wrote:
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 17:35, Martin Hill wrote:
Oops - Checking the specs, the DSL-302G only supports 2 computers *sigh*
Okay, so it's the DSL-504 with the superfluous built-in 4-port hub
we'll have to get for over twice the price. *double sigh*
No.
Again.
No.
Brief summary follows - exact settings left to someone with an actual
OSX box to type on :-)
You can do the following:
* Connect the setup the way you described, machines to hub, modem
to hub.
* Setup one machine to act as server - the Manager PC
* (Optional) Setup a DHCP server on the same machine
* Setup the other machines to use the Manager PC as the gateway
* Using packet forwarding you can forward information from the
other machines to the net and back.
* You *don't* need to Ethernet interfaces, you can make an aliased
interface on the Manager PC, which has two IP addresses (on
internal, one external)
How do I know this works?
Because I use it everyday. (Under Linux, but this makes no difference,
OSX will do this with no problems.)
*NOTE* - This will effectively put all machines on the Internet. There
is no real firewalling happening, but more a case of NAT, and on the
same interface.
If you want security, spend money.
If you want it cheap, do as I suggest.
Onno Benschop
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