I tried installing Network Magic tonight to check it out. Found out about it on someone elses blog — can’t remember who specifically. Network Magic didn’t last more than five minutes before getting the ole’ wax job. It detected “network hardware usually found in large networks.” Fair enough. I run a BSD based firewall called m0n0wall that works very well on older, commodity PCs and it’s free. NM improperly detected a public IP address. Uh, WTF? It also detected a “large number of IP addresses.” Again, WTF? I use a 10.0 NAT’d internal IP scheme because of uber weak admins at corporate decided that a 192.0 IP scheme was appropriate for an internal corporate network. VPN won’t connect multiple networks using the same internal NAT’d IP addresses. After, no WTF there. That makes total sense, right?
The idea for Network Magic seems perfectly sane though. And the fact that it didn’t work for me isn’t a bad thing at all. It shouldn’t work for people as technical, sophisticated, and sexy as myself. But it should fail to work in a much more graceful manner in my opinion.
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