From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 5 2:40:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.skynet.be (trinity.skynet.be [195.238.2.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40CE637B502 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 02:40:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by trinity.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B9E418311; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 11:40:06 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200010050539.WAA18430@usr08.primenet.com> References: <200010050539.WAA18430@usr08.primenet.com> Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 11:36:04 +0200 To: Terry Lambert , keichii@peorth.iteration.net From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Sony VAIO, winmodems, etc. (was Re: ftpd bug) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), chat@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 5:39 AM +0000 2000/10/5, Terry Lambert wrote: > The Apple one will do dial on demand and NAT (without > firewall), asuming you have a Winodws machine to configure it. I have the Apple AirPort base station. I tried using the PC software (Karlbridge?) to configure it. It wouldn't work. It could read configuration information, but IIRC, I couldn't get it to change anything. I also have a lot of problems with the unit getting out-of-sync with the computers, such that I can't even reboot it remotely with the provided administration software. I have to unplug the power cord, leave it off for a few seconds, and then plug it back in again -- Frequently. I hope and pray that once I get the ISDN router working, this thing will work okay as a wireless/wired bridge, and leave all the "hard" stuff to the ISDN router. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message