In
,
on 01/16/07 
   at 04:08 AM, rallee2{at}comcast.net said:

Thank you very much for the great piece on my networking opitons.  In
reply I'll do a lot of snipping and ask a couple questions on what's left. 
There will, no doubt, be plenty of re-reading to do.

>etc etc.  IOW one can setup a standalone PC which requires very little
>power such as the aforementioned 486 and as long as it has 2 separate
>devices that can be networked (direct cable connection, modem, nic, etc.)
>one as "internet" and one (or several) as an
"intranet", that machine can
>act as a router/firewall.

First question.  How much machine is needed?  That is, both wire and wifi
and assumedly/eventually broadband, talk awfully fast and "any old PC"
lying around doesn't.  Why woudn't such a machine be a bottleneck?

>However I found that it
>seemd far more daunting than it was especially in the case of Freesco
>which when booted in "router" mode simply asked me a series
of questions
>such as the IRQ of each networking device (if they weren't PNP) the
>desired networking addresses assignments and bingo! it was working.

My worst nightmare - figuring out what numbers or what kind of numbers
they really want and finding them, picking them out or making them up.  I
searched and read for a couple years, all kinds of networking
"explanations" that said all you have to do is fill in the
numbers - "this
way."  It was always assumed that you just knew what they were talking
about - where and/or how to get what numbers and what sort of numbers was
never covered.  I have a couple IP numers someone suggested that make my
present P2P work.  Just seeing "DNS" printed somewhere puts me into shock,
sort of like when I was 5 and believed I saw Germans sneaking through the
door into my bedroom after listening to war news on the old radio!

>Jimmy

Thanks a lot.

JimL

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