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- From: udarryl@mcl.ucsb.edu (Darryl 'Well)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Ethernet router??
- Keywords: router ethernet network
- Message-ID: <udarryl.725092871@mcl>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 06:41:11 GMT
- Sender: news@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu
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- Ok, so this isn't really system related, but here goes anyways...
-
- i've determined that when our office goes all-mac, we can actually
- salvage one of those 386sx's that is on the way out, throw in some
- ethernet cards, and use it as our router.
-
- i'm planning to put all of the macs on ethernet, then buy a hub, plug
- the hub into the 386sx, plug the 386sx into a tranceiver, which then
- goes into concentrator, then into a buffered repeater, and FINALLY
- into the campus backbone, ergo the internet.
-
- OK...so, i've figured out that popmail should satisfy my needs. we
- can use the 386 as a mail server, with their dos version of mailstop.
- BUT how does would the 386 serve as a router? would i need some sort
- of special software?
-
- i DON'T need unix. not just yet anyways. that's why we're not just
- getting a sun or a next (as some of you might recommend). we also
- can't afford one.
-
- we've got all these sad useless dos machines lying around. couldn't
- one of them be a simple mail server and router? all i want to do
- besides e-mail (for now) is to be able to fetch, or telnet to other
- sites from our office. where does a router (software) fit in?
-
- sorry it's not exactly mac.system related. didn't know where else to
- put it. hmmm, ok, here's my mac question....
-
- where does mactcp come into the picture, and do i have to buy it?
- popmail docs said something about this. does anybody really know?
-
- thanks...please e-mail me replies...i can't read this whole group
- everyday! and i can't understand this nn program :{
-
- thanks in advance...
-
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- "Girls are like parking spaces--all the good ones are already taken" --Anlo Liu
- "Everywhere I go, it seems to say `no parking'" --Jimmy Yu
- Darryl Lee, UC Santa Barbara udarryl@mcl.ucsb.edu
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