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Date:      Tue, 5 Nov 1996 00:16:43 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Veggy Vinny <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ricochet modem by Metricom
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961105000944.5689a-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.PTX.3.95.961101203143.20230J-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>

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On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, Veggy Vinny wrote:

> 	I wonder if the Ricochet modems will be faster later on since the
> modem can do up to 100kBps but if you're on the campus and only see 28.8k
> then their claim isn't true.

Don't forget:

1.  Network overhead
2.  Latency, latency, latency, and some lag, too

> 	Oh okay....  The bad thing about the Ricochet is it doesn't have
> enough lights.

:)

The Phase 2 modems have a red/green LED.  Red when you power it on, blink
green when it's acquired, blink yellow when connected.  

> 	Oh okay, do you know if you can use the Ricochet internet service
> at all if you used the university service?

If I paid for it, sure.  But why would I pay for it??  :-)  That's more of
a software issue.

> 	That's exactly what my building is made of so that's why my modem
> is on top of my HP DeskJet 855c printer. :)  What I wanted to know was 
> also if it was possible since I only have one FreeBSD machine now, if I
> had my own class c address, could I just make my machine have two ip's,
> one incoming from the ISP and one ip for my class c but all outgoing
> packets will be from my class c address?

855c's, great printers.  Just looking at the output, it's hard to tell the
difference between it and the Laserjet 5P at work. :) 

You mean run a gateway of somesort?  You will need NAT or a patch to
FreeBSD to enable proxy.  I don't have the URL for the proxy available at
the moment.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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