From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 22 21:32:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA29532 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 21:32:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wired.ctech.ac.za (wired.ctech.ac.za [155.238.4.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA29520 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 21:32:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jacques@wired.ctech.ac.za) Received: from wired.ctech.ac.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wired.ctech.ac.za (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id HAA02586 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 07:32:44 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from jacques@wired.ctech.ac.za) Message-ID: <34C82B7C.2781E494@wired.ctech.ac.za> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 07:32:44 +0200 From: Jacques Hugo X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: An intersting question .... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Gentleman ... How would you explain how to do this? Say you are standing in front of a hub (switch/BNC/etc), you plug in your laptop and start to run some diags. How would you: 1) know what to set your ip to (you have no idea of what segment you are plugged into.) 2) configure your gateway? Is there a way one can configure his network blindly, maybe some tools to do a dump getting IPX/IP info? Thanks -Jacques ------------------------------------------------------ The box said "Requires Windows 3.1 or better" ... so I got BSD Network Administrator | Jacques Hugo UNIX Systems | jacques@wired.ctech.ac.za Cape Technikon | +27-21-4603584 ------------------------------------------------------