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Date:	Wed, 9 Oct 2002 05:23:16 PST7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Injoy Firewall Pro

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Harry Chris Motin wrote:
>
> My plan is as follows:
>
> 1. Install the Ethernet cables and outlets behind the walls
> [2-6 Buy and hook up various network stuff]

Hi Harry,

1. When we wired offices, we "stubbed out" the runs first with short
pieces of flex conduit that ran from the wall jacks up to the ceiling,
and pulled in the cables later.

---- a. This made things a lot more flexible because we could always
change the wiring by quickly pulling in more or different cables.
(There's 1 Gbit ethernet available right now, plus fiberoptic. Video on
your computer is one potential use of this higher-speed stuff.)

---- b. And then there was the time we had a leak in one of the roofs
and the water ran down inside a wall and got into the cabling and
shorted out the signals, and we had to replace the wires since nobody
wanted to wait a month or two for the cables to dry out.

---- c. The stubs carried everything -- closed circuit tv, telephone,
network, room intercoms, speaker wires, some special thermostat stuff,
you could even use them for extra doorbell hookups.

2. Voice telephone cables were installed in the old days with a minimum
of wall punching -- the installer simply ran the cable along the top of
the wall kickboard and around the trim on the door frames.

---- a. High-speed signals don't like sharp "pinch" turns in their
cables (I don't have a spec on this, anybody know of one?) but this
still might be a simpler technique than a lot of wall cutting and
patching.

---- b. There are surface-mount wall boxes available so you don't have
to open up a wall when you install a connector.

> 2. Buy/install a 10/100 Ethernet switch
> . . .
> 7. Change over my Internet access to DSL by adding a DSL
> modem and separate router in front of the switch

Umm, where exactly were you planning on putting Injoy Firewall Pro
(IFP)? Is your separate router going to be another PC which runs IFP?
Most people want the firewall to be right after the cable/dsl/56k
modem. If you buy a hardware firewall then it can also be your
router/switch.

- Peter

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