Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:57:54 -0800 (PST) From: Drew Jenkins <drewjenkinsjr@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How Do I Surf To My Server? Message-ID: <5800.57941.qm@web62206.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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----- Original Message ----=0AFrom: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org>= =0ATo: Drew Jenkins <drewjenkinsjr@yahoo.com>=0ACc: freebsd-questions@freeb= sd.org=0ASent: Monday, February 19, 2007 12:49:22 PM=0ASubject: Re: How Do = I Surf To My Server?=0A=0AOn Feb 19, 2007, at 7:15 AM, Drew Jenkins wrote:= =0A=0A>Can you tell us more about your home set-up? Presumably you have = =0A>some sort of router doing NAT and DHCP? Tell us about it.=0A=0AI had, = but perhaps in a different thread, so forgive me for not putting it here be= fore. I have DHCP, a satellite dish to which both computers are linked.=0A= =0A>If you don't know IP address of your internal server, than chances =0A= >are that it was assigned via DHCP by your router. For what you want =0A>= to do, you should probably reconfigure the server with a specific =0A>inte= rnal IP address instead of having it assigned.=0A=0AI do have the IP addres= s, and no doubt it was assigned. I found it using ifconfig. Is that the cor= rect way to do it?=0A=0A>Assuming that I've guessed correctly about your se= t-up:=0A>First find out from your router what the the range of the "DHCP po= ol" =0A>is. Look at the DHCP configuration on your router. Then pick an = =0A>address that is NOT in that range but still part of your local =0A>ne= twork. Then use sysinstall on your FreeBSD box to give it that IP =0A>add= ress.=0A=0AIf ifconfig isn't the way to do that, could you specify how? sys= install is a GUI, so it'll just ask me a question, or I'll have to look on = a chart to find what I need, right? Easy, right?=0ATIA,=0ADrew=0A=0A=0A=0A= =0A=0A=0A =0A______________________________________________________________= ______________________=0ADon't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the foreca= st=0Awith the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut.=0Ahttp://tools.search.yahoo.c= om/shortcuts/#loc_weather
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