The problem : current NAT router is consumer device, has served me well but is dying and no longer really fits what I need. By dying I mean every few days the built in caching nameserver stops ...

No doubt you know that sharing your internet connection on your Mac is easy. For instance, if want to turn any Mac with a built-in Airport card into a wireless router (e.g. with a cable or DSL modem ...

I had an idea, and I wonder if it's been implemented:<P>With NAT (at least as it exists on my Linksys router), there's no real way to get a direct connection to a computer behind the firewall, other ...

You may have seen inexpensive home routers described as "NAT firewalls." For example, Linksys says of its BEFSR11 EtherFast Cable/DSL Router, "...the built-in NAT technology acts as a firewall ...

You probably know what TCP/IP is; any computer using TCP/IP will have a unique IP address by which data in the form of packets is sent and received from other computers. The process of passing data ...

A software firewall is a standard tool for protecting computers from viruses and other malware. Some routers -- the device that carries packets of data between your network and the Internet -- offer ...

You probably know what TCP/IP is; any computer using TCP/IP will have a unique IP address by which data in the form of packets is sent and received from other computers. The process of passing data ...