Re: [Sheflug] Networking and modem sharing between Mandrake7 and win98se

[Steve Tickle <nospam [at] quarndon.co.uk>]

At 22:10 31/05/2000 +1000, Matthew John Palmer wrote:

>Are you nuts?  A Linux box, set up as per
>
>http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16/wylug-netlinux
>
>will do things much better, with less hardware costs, better
>configurability, and it can do a hell of a lot more-  not to mention no
>"simultaneous user" limits.
>
> > Sorry to appear to be plugging windoze s/w but this might be the easiest
> > (and cheapest) solution.
>
>In the swerver line, nothing is easier and cheaper than Linux.

I know this seems like herecy on this list but all I was getting at was 
that if he's using a winmodem that's not linux friendly, it would save the 
20 quid or so outlay to replace it. I have no doubt that linux can do a 
better and more flexible job than the windoze s/w, that's why we're 
switching to it at work here. However, our proxy server works fine and more 
to the point, I know how to configure it, so it's one function that we 
won't be falling over ourselves to change... good sysadmin practise I 
would've thought.
YMMV

Steve


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