TransACT

[Rasjid Wilcox]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 22:47, andrew at bishop.dropbear.id.au wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Rasjid Wilcox wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > I'm not too familiar with the whole PPPoE thing.  I'm assuming that
> > technically it will be possible to see both the 'outside' internet and
> > the 'TransACT' intranet (when the peer-to-peer things gets going)
> > simultaneously. Is this a fair assumption (from a technical perspective)?
>
> Hopefully it will be possible....
> This has been discussed on this list a couple of times already - search
> the archives.  I posted about it on September 28, and again on October 25.
> I plan on asking about it at clug tomorrow (unless someone else asks first)

I won't be able to get there, as I look after my child most Thursdays.  Can 
someone please post a summary of the TransACT talk.  I will be extremely 
interested.

> > Does anyone know if TransWEB is likely to be compatible with Smoothwall? 
> > Or even better, has anyone already got TransWEB working through
> > Smoothwall?
>
> Yes, and yes.  It's dead easy to set up, too.

Just what I hoped.

> Note that you'll need to sigh up with an isp before you can actually use
> "TransWEB" - transact just provide the connection between you and the isp.
> (unless you just want to use the internal network, of course :-)
> I recommend *against* netspeed (you'll find lengthy reasons for this in
> the mailing list archives too).

I remember the netspeed discussion.  It was one of the reasons I only 
included WebOne in my spreadsheet.

Rasjid.