dialup router

[Anthony E. Greene]

On 1:25 Oct 15, 2004 Steve Buehler <steve at ibapp.com> wrote:
> Marco & Tony
>          Thanks for your replies, but these are not what I am looking
> for.  I was hoping to find a "Standalong product", an External modem
> that I can plug into a router or switch so that it can dialup an ISP
> and everybody in the office can use it over the network without
> having to install anything else on their computer and so I don't have
> to configure anything else on their computer besides networking with
> DHCP. 

I've never heard of such a thing. You could do this with a cable modem, but
that's because a cable modem generally has a CAT5 port that you can connect
directly to a router. If there is a device that does what you describe, it
is probably expensive enough to make you reconsider setting up a Linux box
to do it instead.


Keep in mind that the slowest Pentium box you can find could handle NAT and
firewalling for more users than you'd want to put on a single 56k
connection.


--Tony