On (01 Apr 03) mark lewis wrote to Frank Vest...

Hello mark,

 FV> Some explaining is in order here. :)
 ml> [trim]
 FV> This whole mess is networked with BNC cable and R2D2 runs
 FV> Windows' "Internet Connection Sharing" (ICS) to provide
 ml> ewww... ICS... then again, its "free" and part of the OS
but still...
 ml> yuck...

Actually, I've worked most of the bugs out of the thing. It's the best
behaved program on the system at the moment. :-)

If ICS would do port mapping/forwarding or routing, I'd be thrilled.

 FV> the other two with internet access. Since ICS does not do
 FV> routing, the port mapper was needed to point port 80 to
 FV> Spock for the java client.
 ml> ahhh, so spock is the web server? hummm... i know that i've run
 ml> wingate in the past and it did a good job... a friend of mine used it
 ml> and mapped ports to other boxes so that folk on the 'net could get to
 ml> things on the inside on different machines... from the outside, it all
 ml> looked like it was all on one machine... because wingate is a proxy,
 ml> you just have to be careful what you allow to be done as hackers are
 ml> always looking for proxies that they can use to jump to other sites
 ml> with...

I'd rather not use something that allows jumping to other sites. The
mapper I was using is called "Port Mapper". It worked ok until I
changed the memory in the BBS (R2) from 80 megs to 128 megs. I may
have some bad memory there, but it's still wierd that this simple
change caused so much headache.

 ml> [trim]
 FV> Yes, I know I should get a router and all that. I just can't
 FV> justify or afford to purchase one right now. Donations accepted. :)
 ml> yes, a router that can do port mapping (i prefer the term "port
 ml> relaying" instead) would go a long way... there are some pretty decent
 ml> ones available, so i hear... and not really all that expensive, AIR...
 ml> i'm guessing maybe $100US or less... linksys and dlink are ones that
 ml> come to mind...

$0 to, maybe $10 would be my limit. My allowance sucks. :-)

 FV> So, with the history of the system out of the way, what were
 FV> we talking about again?? :-))
 ml> hehehe, the java-telnet client and accessing telnetable bbs' with
 ml> it...
                
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