A true router, vs those NAT box things that people pick up at Fry's or CompUSA for a couple hundred bucks, typically require some type of an initial network configuration before they can function on the network. Think Cisco, Juniper or Nortel vs Netgear or Linksys. Jerry K Ted Burton wrote: > At 7:27 AM -0800 on 2/24/05, Robert Ameeti spoke about [X4U] > Hyperterminal thusly: > >> What would be the best equivalent for Hyperterminal (on the PC) > > > I have used two different brands of router with Macs, both under OS 8 or > so to 9, and then under OS X. Both are configured by use of a browser, > be it Netscape or IE or now Safari. I use Safari for the router in use > at my home office these days. One could probably do much the same in > Terminal, if one speaks Unix. For me that's always been why bother.