From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net)
Date: Tue Sep 03 2002 - 20:21:29 PDT
on 03/09/02 23:08, Brian Carstensen at reggie.lives_at_netzero.com wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, September 3, 2002, at 09:44 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
>
>> Since you've been messing around this for some time, why not makes you
>> life
>> easier? Get a cheap, compatible Ethernet card for your Newton (some are
>> selling for around $20 USD), and get a cable/DSL router for about $60
>> USD.
>> The router will negotiate the PPPoP connection and will act as router
>> for
>> the computers on your network. I think you can share an Ethernet
>> connection
>> over LocalTalk using MacIP, but it requires an old Apple software that
>> won't
>> run natively on OS X, and is hard to find.
>
> How hard is a router to set up? I think we've got one lying around from
> when we were setting up DSL, but we never got it to work. Is it just a
> matter of replacing the hub, or are there all kinds of craaazy settings
> to mess with?
>
> Huge thanks for the reply! :)
Usually, it's just a matter of replacing the hub. You might have to
configure it to act as a DHCP server if this feature is not active by
default, but it's relatively easy, just one radio button to click, and
saving the configuration. I have a Linksys router and the configuration is
done through a web browser. No specific application, available from every
computer, no complain!
-Laurent.
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