From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 13 11:34:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA17857 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:34:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA17788 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:34:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA01083; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:34:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:34:21 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: michael cc: freebsd questions Subject: Re: dorm room ethernet In-Reply-To: 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 On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, michael wrote: > I have a friend who lives on our university campus and her apartment is > wired for ethernet. Speaking for UO Resnet, you can simply ask for a static IP address. Explain to them that you have a UNIX box and it requires an IP. You'll get a name in the bargain. I don't know how UCSC does it specifically since policies vary from school to school, but it's worth it to ask :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message