On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 08:27:00PM -0400, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
 

The real value would be not in a little box, but something like NoCatSplash, where a workstation functions as an AP and/or broadband router.
   

This is the sort of thing I was thinking of - a sort of router/gateway acting as a superserver to an internal network with a real IP address on one side and an internal IP address on the other. Using an internal IP network you wouldn't need a firewall and NAT on every machine, all clients would access the Internet via a proxy or socks server on the gateway machine which could also act as an imap mail server.