Re: PPPkit 2.0 (was: Importance of "W" f

[Eonic Man <eonicman@erols.com>]

Jo Even Skarstein wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:
>
> >  >> Multi-user is a growning industry, on the PC side, so why not here?
> >  >
> >  >1) Most users do not have multiple computers (particluarly Atari's)
> >
> > I disagree. All of us here have at least one ST machine and
> > either a MEGA-STE, TT or Falcon on top of that.
>
> I have a Falcon, a Mega ST4 and a STE. I plan to upgrade the Mega so I
> can use it to read mail and news when I'm home during the holiday, and
> the STE is nice for games, but I can't imagine using them in a
> network. For what? The only thing that work better on the ST's are
> games and demos, and neither works with MiNTOS running...
>
> Nevertheless, I'n *not* against IP-masquerading or anything, it's just
> that it complicates matters and is IMO not needed in a basic dial-up
> package for beginnners. It's better to compile "add-on packages"
> later.
>
> > Others have a couple of Ataris and a Linux box, with a Win95
> > Pentium lying around somewhere in the house.
>
> ...and hence no need for any masquerading or routing, the
> linux/wintel-box handles all this already.
>
> > I have even impressed a highly paid system administrator when I
> > showed him my TT running its basic MiNT setup. He couldn't find
> > anything nasty about it. In fact, he just loved it and asked if
> > he could still buy himself one somewhere.
>
> I can find one very nasty and serious flaw with MiNT that prevents it
> from being useful in a professional environment (as anything other
> than a dumb terminal): Memory-handling. No way you can run your
> MiNT-based server for months, you'll have to reboot it very often due
> to fragmentation.
>
> I set my Falcon up as a ftp- and http-server a couple of months ago,
> and I had to reboot it every morning even with very modest traffic. I
> gave up the project after less than a week.
>

To use the words of the legendary David Small of Spectre GCR fame, it's
called, "Pushing the Envelope".  Why have IP Masquerading?  Because we can.

Peter