sammich
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gadgetgal:
either you're confusing the data access with the' wireless web' promotion or you're extremely lucky. On the cingular web site where they advertise the 'free night and weekend minutes with the wireless web' the fine print below reads :
"Other forms of Circuit Switched Data calls are excluded."
MPM:
There's an checkbox option in the "Answering..." dialog box in the Remote Server control panel to 'Allow Client To Connect via TCP/IP'. If this isn't checked then you're only going to get Appletalk access.
But on top of that, like with any computer that is connected to the internet, the computer (or Visor) you're dialing from has to have some kind of IP address assigned to it. You'll see that if you check the checkbox mentioned above you'll also see an area where you can type an IP address to assign the client computer that's dialing in. There's also an option for the client to choose it's own IP address but it's better to leave that off to avoid confusion.
So all you have to do is find an IP address in the range assigned to you by your ISP that you're not using and enter that in. Typically with home DSL/Cable setups they only assign you one IP address per computer that you have. You'll probably pay extra for each IP number you request. Actually most ISPs dont even wanna give you a permanent address (which is the case if you have PPP over Ethernet).
If you're stuck with one IP address and dont wanna pay the extra dough, there is a way for multiple computers on the same network to share one IP number. This is called Network Address Translation (NAT) or IP Masqurading. In this setup, the cable/dsl modem is directly hooked up to a the nat router computer which has the IP address assigned by the ISP. All the networked computers is hooked up to the nat router. The networked computers use an 'internal IP' addressing scheme. It can get a little confusing, but simply it's like this:
internet/ISP ---> cable/dsl box ---> NAT computer ---> home network (including your visor dialed up)
There are 'internet line sharing' hardware devices you can buy off the shelf that pretty much does the same thing and are easier to set up and manage. But if you have a crappy computer lying around, it can do the trick nicely too.(I use my old 25mhz Mac IIvx as the router and it works great). Another neat thing about it is that you kind of have a internet firewall for a bonus.
The NAT software I use is called IP NetRouter from Sustainable Softworks. There's another one called Vicom Internet Gateway which is a little less techie to set up. NAT is built in to Unix(es) types like FreeBSD and Linux (so i would assume MacOS X too). I have no clue what's available on the windows side.
Anyways, I'm going way way beyond the scope of the topic now.
Check out the excellent IP NetRouter tutorial at Sustainable Softworks web page, it'll will give you more details of how it all works (including NAT and firewall concepts).
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05-30-2001 11:06 PM
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