Trumpet FireSock Excellent Cross-Platform Support Forrest Stroud
Excellent Cross-Platform Support
One advantage of FireSock is that almost any client node can be accommodated, from PCs and Macs to UNIX machines. As long as the workstation has a TCP/IP stack running (Trumpet Winsock or otherwise), FireSock can allow it to share the modem and Internet connection of a host computer.
FireSock works on top of your TCP/IP stack, so if you're using a client like the Microsoft DUN utility, you don't need to worry about FireSock replacing it or interfering with it. FireSock's help documentation is more than sufficient, and setting up the client is relatively easy. And while not the most attractive of interfaces, the FireSock interface will be quite familiar to long-time users of Trumpet Winsock.
FireSock provides full access to most major Internet applications and resources including the Web, e-mail, FTP, telnet, IRC and news services. Among its many features, FireSock can act as a transparent IP level firewall that easily transfers incoming connections (allowing for Web or FTP servers to be served from your network), configures local clients' IP addresses by acting as a BOOTP server (alleviating the need for each node to have its own IP address), and logs all network activity. FireSock can also act as a basic router by routing packets from the Internet to the proper nodes on your LAN.
