From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 25 8:14:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 784AC37B401 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 08:14:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #6) id 15EY43-0009rl-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 16:14:11 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f5PFEBr50690 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 16:14:11 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 16:14:11 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: can i connect bsd laptop in place of my windows terminal? Message-ID: <20010625161411.A50527@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm sure it's simpler than it sounds. I hope. ;-) I have a windows workstation on an ethernet network. I'd like to know how hard it would be to bring in my BSD laptop with a PCMCIA ethernet card and connect to the TCP/IP service on my network, instead of connecting with my windows desktop machine. If this can be done without involving my sysadmin, how do i handle the config options normally done by windows, such as IP assignment, my computer 'name' on the network, etc? Please keep in mind i am inexperienced in ethernet. Jonathon -- Microsoft complaining about the source license used by Linux is like the event horizon calling the kettle black. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message