On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 21:07, will wrote:
On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 10:46 AM, Robert Sweet wrote:
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:09:34AM +0200, Verdi March Wrote:
First, my apology if I break the threading since my local SMTP has problem, so I need to switch to web-based mail.
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 16:00, John Andersen wrote:
Since your url does not work, I have no idea if that is a modem or a firewall/router or what.
sorry, should be: http://broadband.motorola.com/noflash/sb5100.html
But the short answer is that for $12 you can buy a second network card for your linux box and turn it into a router/firewall for as many machines as you wish. You will need only one public IP for this.
We're all using laptop. So, we prefer a "real" router. I've checked a little bit about the motorola modem, and it's FAQ says that it doesn't support NAT. So it seems that we need to purchase a router.
Btw, what is the difference between "router" and "broadband router"? Are there any significant technical differences?
There really isn't any difference between "router" and "broadband router". It's a marketing thing.
I would look at getting a firewall appliance like a SonicWall. You can pick up a Webramp 700s off of ebay for around $100.00. It can do nat/dhcp and port forwarding.
you can get a seimens firewall router that will do all that for around 35 usd at office depot.
Check out Belkin's refurbished equipment (www.belkin.com). I just bought some 4-port routers to keep on the shelf for around $10 each! NICs were like $2 (I know you don't need internal NICs w/your laptops). They also had a wireless router for $30 and I got one of those, too. Simplest solutions are the nicest. Cheers, Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com Don't Panic!