Subj : thanks :)
To   : David Calafrancesco
From : Stewart Honsberger
Date : Fri Feb 16 2001 03:11 am

Hello David!

Feb 16 2001 02:19, David Calafrancesco wrote to Patrick McGuire:

 PM>> RE: InJoy
[...]

 DC> If you are using a modem to connect, then the extended client is just 
 DC> fine. I have used it here for years.

Just fine ... So long as you're not attempting to NAT/MASQ for the number of 
clients you paid for.

We ran the Injoy client with a 5 machine license for some years, and when we 
ran it with even four machines we would have to re-boot the server (not just 
re-start the client, but re-boot the server itself) in order to get access 
back. "IP Table Exhausted" it would tell us. Dumping the IP table gained us all 
of 2 minutes of time when our clients would again be 'live' before we'd see the 
same message.

Inquiries were sent repeatedly to the author, who repeated time and time again 
that it was not his fault, and even at times became highly belidgerant with us.

We decided at that point to 'borrow' a friend's platinum (IIRC) license for 
some 20 workstations, but all that did was increase the time before the client 
would blow up from 2-3 days to 5-6 days. Either way, we never saw a ten day 
uptime for that OS/2 box.

Once we upgraded from our 28.8 dial-up to an @Home cable connection, and to the 
InJoy Firewall product we never again saw the "IP Table Exhausted" message. We 
did, however, notice that when we tried to use the exact number of workstations 
for which we'd paid (again, 5) it would stop responding for two of the 
workstations (the two most recently accessing the Internet, from my 
observations). Of course, since we'd opted not to pay the extra $50-$100USD for 
the "gold" version, we weren't permitted to make support inquiries of him.

We've since given up entirely on the InJoy line of products and are now quite 
happily running ipchains under Linux (soon to be iptables, when I get around to 
learning the new syntax). No client restrictions, no licensing, no support 
hassles, no expensive upgrades, no hassles period.

So be warned that you will most likely not get what you pay for from FX.

</rant>

Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath)
 blackdeath@softhome.net
  http://tinys.cx/blackdeath

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