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In article <igirisujin-2110951523080001@mberry.demon.co.uk>,
igirisujin@mberry.demon.co.uk (Mark Berry) wrote:

>Hi, I was wondering, can I use my Mac as a gateway to the net for my other
>machines running IP ? 
>I have a laptop PC and a desktop PC, I am in the middle of ethernetting
>them together, and I would like to be able to log onto demon using MacPPP
>on the Mac, and be able to FTP stuff from the net using my PC via the Mac.
>Is this possible? can MacTCP use more than one LAP at a time? or am I
>better off setting up a UNIX box with a fast modem to act as an on demand
>gateway? (I plan on using a UNIX box as an NFS server anyway to give me a
>central shared storage and backup box for all my machines)
>

I don't know if it will handle the traffic to the PC but Vicom have
recently released the Vicom Internet Gateway (VIG). This will sit on a
server with your modem and when anybody on your local network wants to
access your dial up account VIG brings up the connection, in addition VIG
allows multiple users to use the connection at the same time.

eg
I bring up the connection to Demon to read my mail.
At the same time my coleague Fred can do some FTP from another Mac;
At the same time my coleague Jim can potter around with Netscape.

All with one dial up connection and modem.

I have not seen or tested the product yet and so can only go from Vicom's
literature but it sounds too good to be true.

I would assume all the Macs would have to be running TCP/IP either via
Ethernet or Apple IP Gateway.