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Re: [SAGE] Apple Airport base station admin SW for Wintel



In message <3C5118A6.20C58DB2@endlessknot.com>you write:
>Found this while I was nosing around in the Apple database:
>
>     http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120093
>
>If you haven't seen one of these little things, a brief list
>of features follows:
>
>   * NAT router (optional can also serve as a simple bridge)
>   * DHCP server (optional)
>   * PPP dialup capable
>   * Ethernet LAN connectivity
>   * NAT routes and DHCP's wired IP devices as well as
>     wireless
>   * supports static NAT addresses (wired as well as
>     wireless)
>   * allows port mapping
>   * now has an "inside" and "outside" ethernet port
>   * will bridge EtherTalk
>   * Recursive DNS forwarder
>   * 128 WEP (for what it's worth)
>   * works with DSSS 802.11b cards from other vendors
>
>In short, it's not a perfect solution, but something to
>consider.  Now, with administration SW available for Windows
>systems, you don't necessarily have to have a Mac to
>configure them....
>
>-Vincent Cordrey
>
>
>

There is a Java administrator as well.  I have used it with success
from my FreeBSD system, and sparc Solaris, so neither Windows nor a Mac
is required.

	http://gicl.mcs.drexel.edu/people/sevy//airport/#Configurator

				
				Ted Nolan