Cars deemed safe from phone viruses. Huzzah!

Also, my monitor has arrived! It's shiny and pretty and I want to go home and ogle its shiny prettiness. The tower is currently "In Manufacturing" and is scheduled to ship by next Monday. Whee!

Does anyone know anything about hardware VPNs?

We have a Check Point VPN=1 Edge. My boss wants to set it up so that instead of all traffic going through the VPN box (i.e. it acts as a router in addition to a VPN) he just wants to stick it on our network, and connect both the LAN side and WAN side to the same network, so only stuff that needs to go through the VPN will go through it.

If that makes any sense....

Anyway, it doesn't work. It fails to make a connection to the internet on the WAN side.

tommyrot, let's say you set up your network like so:

Internet
|
Router-------
|           |
Firewall    VPN
|           |
LAN----------

If you add routes to the Firewall (which will be your LAN's gateway) that say if the destination network is 123.45.67.89/24 then send to the VPN's LAN IP address (for example).

If that makes any sense.

Okay, here's the setup:

I have two computers on a Netgear hub/router. I want to have the modem go from the wall to the router so that either/both computers on the network can be online at the same time. Unfortunatly, the DSL modem they gave me has a USB connector, rather than the Ethernet connector I asked for...can I hook it to one of the computers and set up my network to get the effect I'm looking for? Or should I try to exchange it?

How would you set this up with an Ethernet connector anyway? Back in the States we had cable modem, and that went into the "uplink" port on the router, no big deal. Would it be the same with this?

I'd try to exchange it. To use the USB type, you would have to set up one computer with internet sharing. Plus? If that machine is disconnected from the network or off, the oter machine can't get out on the 'net.

Hmm. Not sure if a USB hub can be used to share a DSL modem.

One would think all broadband modems would have ethernet. Weird.

How would you set this up with an Ethernet connector anyway? Back in the States we had cable modem, and that went into the "uplink" port on the router, no big deal. Would it be the same with this?

Yes, with Ethernet.

I'm looking for a used PC laptop that I can use for taking the bar exam. (The software they use won't work with my Powerbook.) I'll look on eBay next, but I thought someone here might have an old laptop they would like to get rid of. All I need is:

• CPU = 200Mhz
• RAM = 64MB
• Drives = 50MB of free hard drive space and one floppy disk drive
• IE 5.0 or higher plus the ability to connect to the internet
• Windows 98 or whatveer came after that.

I'm looking for a used PC laptop that I can use for taking the bar exam. (The software they use won't work with my Powerbook.)

Could always get Virtual PC...

hi tech-heads

Have any Mac users upgraded to iTunes 4.8 and had trouble with iTunes recognizing your iPod?

I am using OS 10.3.9/iTunes 4.8 with a 4G iPod photo. Just wondering if I am the only one having this issue. Thanks.

cereal:

A quick skim through the apple discussion forums shows that there a lot of other problems folks are having with 4.8. (Not being able to buy music from the apple store, not getting radio stations that used to work on 4.7, not being able to convert at 192 kbps - it auto. resets to 128 apparently, etc.) Screw that. I am going back to 4.7 and waiting a week or so for apple to work on the bugs (which is what I should have done in the first place).