Re: [Sheflug] Blueyonder

[Steve Tickle <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 15:41 25/09/02 +0100, Darrell Blake wrote:
>Thanks for everyone's help. My actual set up (once working) will be as
>follows. I will have a smoothwall box connected to the internet via the
>blueyonder connection, looks like it's gonna have to be RJ45 though, then all
>the other computers (all 3 of them) will use the smoothwall box as the
>gateway to the internet. Can anyone tell me if this is possible? Also, my
>current network runs on BNC cable so will it be possible to connect the RJ45
>to the smoothwall and then still run the rest of the connection on BNC? I
>highly doubt this is possible. I guess what I'm asking is, will I need to
>have two networks and bridge them? In which case I'll need two NIC cards in
>my smoothwall box. Once from internet to RJ45 on one card. Then other card
>handles BNC connections. Is this right?

Personally, I'd go for something like the Longshine LCS 833RT8 which is an 
8 port hub with BNC connection. We bought some for work a while ago and 
they were about 18quid.


Steve

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