Hi!

At last, after failure and resubscribing, you lot have finally popped  
up again in a digest. I badly needed you last week with a problem  
about networking (now practically solved thanks to G3 list)! You just  
stopped coming in to my mailbox for ages...

Anyway, I have DSL now and the modem is supposed to be also a router  
(I don't fully understand these things). Optus, my ISP, does not  
support Macs but techies will chat to me informally and they said  
this, I asked if this was in respect to the fact that it has USB and  
ethernet and "yes". You can have both to supply the internet to 2  
machines this way. Anyone with Optus on DSL down under? I know how  
toget to the firewall configurations, but need to understand what the  
various parameters are about... "Level" Snooze, DMZ, Filter rules,  
Log and ADS. Not hard to understand some of these in general or  
vaguely. I would not mind knowing how experienced usesr would tend to  
set these parameters, what would a good typical set of settings look  
like? Also, should I keep it OFF and instead use the MAC built in one  
which I have read is there in Tiger? Is this a good thing to do,  
would the Mac built in one be likely better quality or more  
appropriate for a Mac?


David Elmo





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