School needs to share an Internet connection... 1

[Mi1house]

I am looking into purchasing some needed equipment to upgrade our schools internet access infrastructure. When all is said and done our school will have 3 separate networks. One for the computer lab which will consist of all macs that will run off a OSX 10.2 server, one for the library which will run off of a Appleshare IP 6.x server, and one for the office staff and teachers who will use windows 98 clients running off a Windows 2000 server. I have a sattelite Internet connection coming down the pipe as well as some other hardware. The "other hardware" is my question to you.

I need a device that will allow me to share this one Internet connection with all these individual networks, plus allow for future expansion. This device should have at least 5-10 ethernet ports to share the net connection. This device should also have some sort of firewall to protect the computers. And if at all possible this device should have some type of website filtering so the grade 8 kiddies can see no titties (sorry, couldn't resist). Now, does a device like this exist? Or do I suffer from some sort of delusional pipe dream.

 

[Mi1house]

Netgear Router

http://www.netgear.com/products/details/FVS318.asp

I answered my own question. What a ninny I am.

 

[mxdcy]

you are right here
you could also try an ordinary hub for the connectivity
a normal internet conection device like modem
and a pc equiped with a proxy server like squid ..
there is an nt version outthere too

i dont know if this solution is better but the id department of my old college was using it


ps. i found my password afterall