From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 17 23:46:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7741A37B407 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 23:46:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 6892 invoked by uid 100); 18 May 2002 06:45:59 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15589.63655.94078.482179@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 01:45:59 -0500 To: Brad Knowles Cc: Terry Lambert , Giorgos Keramidas , Miguel Mendez , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The road ahead? In-Reply-To: References: <20020516004909.A9808@daemon.tisys.org> <20020516151801.A47974@energyhq.homeip.net> <20020516172853.A7750@daemon.tisys.org> <3CE40759.7C584101@mindspring.com> <20020516220616.A51305@energyhq.homeip.net> <3CE43D08.1FDBF0A3@mindspring.com> <20020517163624.GB9697@hades.hell.gr> <3CE58F73.1A7F50AF@mindspring.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.55 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In , Brad Knowles typed: > At 4:17 PM -0700 2002/05/17, Terry Lambert wrote: > > A much better paradigm would have been a single round green > > button on the front, wich connected your small office to the > > Internet. > Naw, you want something that just automatically works, and > doesn't require any buttons. I almost replied to Terry pointing out that the Linksys cable/dsl router has no buttons. You shut off all your gear, plug the modem into the WAN side, plug your computers into the LAN side, and then turn on the modem, router and systems in order. If you've got typical Windows installs, you're done. If you need something that requires a static IP address - like an NFS server - you have to configure it. If your systems were doing dialup internet, you'll have to run the internet wizard on them. If you want to run web servers and the like, you have to configure it yet more. But those options are for geeks. For a small all-MS shop that outsources it's servers, it's a near-perfect solution - unless you want to run netmeeting including someone not on the LAN. I'm waiting for them to announce a firmware upgrade running an OH323 gatekeeper, but expect it to be a new product. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message