Networking Question

[Jope]

In my work we have a LAN and plenty of windoze/linux gurus. I decided to surprise them by setting up my miggy to access the LAN. I downloaded the 3c589 drivers from aminet and I have Miami installed. I was told that all I will do with the current software will be to be able to ping the migy and nothing else  ! I wonder if this is true, or Miami will allow me to access the web through my miggy.

Miami only supplies the TCP/IP-stack .. If you just install that, then yes, about the most exciting thing you can do is ping back and forth.. (there's also a telnet client with Miami, so you can connect to servers running the telnet daemon).

If you want to browse the web, get IBrowse or Voyager.

[Jope]

Furthermore I can access internet simultaneously from Amiga and from PC. However I had to install a freeware proxy on the PC (no further harware needed).

Didn't the built in NAT work for you? (internet connection sharing)

[Jope]

Yer but if you've got a busy network, you'll want a switch, which apparantly are traditionaly more expensive because more than one pair of computers can use the switch at once where as only one pair of computers can use the hub at once, as far as i know.

It's a little different..

A hub simply repeats to every port what any machine sends.. This results in a lot of collisions -> slower network.

A switch on the other hand sends the data only to the destination machine. If it can't figure out who gets it, then it's broadcast to everyone.

You might want to check out This FAQ I quickly googled up