Hi Bob.

01-Apr-04 03:59:10, Bob Lawrence wrote to Niels Petersen


 NP>> Sitting your windows machines behind a Linux server seems to
 NP>> block intruders.

 NP>> Yair... but how do you do that? You can run Linux out of Windows,
 NP>> but how do you run Windows out of Linux?

 NP>> One $275 machine sits there and acts as a Linux server with the
 NP>> modem attached to it. All other Win machines in the house are
 NP>> sitting behind it.

 NP>> Its a good way to make use of so called "old" computers

 BL> My old 100MHz 486 is probably fast enough for simple Linux, but
 BL> it's ISA and the new one is PCI. John Tserk... Smith gave me a
 BL> pair of ISA ethenet cards, but where do I get a PCI network card
 BL> that runs ethernet? And where do I get a fast ISA modem? By the
 BL> time I've spent $200 I might as well buy a whole new box, and use
 BL> *this* one as the server.

Them blue cables (cat 5) with the modular plugs are still ethernet,
(of a sort) there's ISA cards out there that'll work with them,
EAN adaptors too.

I'd almost forgotten about 50 ohm BNC connector "thin" ethernet.
I've never EAN + drop-cable seen a "thick" ethernet setup. (EAN
is that 15 pin socket)

 -=> Bye <=-

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