From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 11 16:20:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA21256 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 16:20:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from proxy4.ba.best.com (root@proxy4.ba.best.com [206.184.139.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA21139 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 16:19:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from killjoy@burnvictim.com) Received: from shell3.ba.best.com (killjoy@shell3.ba.best.com [206.184.139.134]) by proxy4.ba.best.com (8.8.8/8.8.BEST) with SMTP id QAA19404 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 16:18:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 16:18:52 -0800 (PST) From: michael X-Sender: killjoy@shell3.ba.best.com Reply-To: michael To: freebsd questions Subject: dorm room ethernet Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, I'm really ignorant when it comes to network stuff so heres my question. I have a friend who lives on our university campus and her apartment is wired for ethernet. I was interested in piecing together a machine running 2.2.5 and plugging it into her wall. However the school uses DHCP and issues out funky names for each machine connected. I was wondering if it was possible to do something such that I can broadcast another name so my machine would respond to the default name and my customized name. something like this: default: ss-d0015.resnet.ucsc.edu what I like: beta.resnet.ucsc.edu thanks micahel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message