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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (1565)	7/5/1998 6:53:00 PM
From: Street Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Why do I prefer NAT? sygate.com I'll pay $50 so that I don't have the hastle of a proxy, plus I'll be able to have 3 computers hooked up instead of two. $100 would allow for 6 computers. Also see #reply-4617474 NEVOD -nat Features ----(I assume some of Sygates features are equivalent or superior) Multiple PPTP Client and Server Support for your Virtual Private Network (VPN). Supports DirecPC for Windows NT version 1.6 Supports a wide and continually growing number of applications such as Web, E-mail, AOL, Compuserve, Quake, Telnet, FTP, Gopher, Ping, Traceroute, WAIS, Finger, IRC, ICQ, PPTP, Citrix Winframe, ssh ,(multiple) news hosts, Vocaltec Internet Phone, PeopleLink, Netscape AOL Instant Messenger, BuyDirect.com... *Transparently supports FTP, RealAudio, VDO and Xing clients (UDP and TCP). Connect up to 1000 workstations (50,000 simultaneous connections) to the Internet using a single IP address. Turnkey installation and configuration. Simple 5 minute installation using the NT Control Panel utility. No proxy client setup. ALL Client software runs "as-is". Connects your existing Intranet to the Internet without changing existing IP addresses and supports un-translated use of existing registered IP addresses. NT kernel based 32-bit package seamlessly integrates with existing applications and functionality on your NT Server or Workstation. Integral Firewall securely intercepts packets beneath the routing layer unlike proxy implementations. Works with any TCP/IP based client (Win31, 95, NT, Macs, Unix, DOS...). Transparent to Netware, Netbui and other existing networks. NOT a Proxy, so no limitations on connections or ports like other packages. No need for SOCKS setup for each individual application. Loaded as a Kernel Driver, not an application so outperforms application based software. Full ethernet speed thruput or better depending on host machine configuration and interface. **Outperforms proxy implementations. I will go with Sygate: sygate.com Regards, S.W.