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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