From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 25 0:19:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47FEA37B6BD for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 00:19:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from danco (danco.mostgraveconcern.com [10.20.155.2]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA00874; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 00:18:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <01ce01bff608$91981e20$029b140a@danco> Reply-To: "Dan O'Connor" From: "Dan O'Connor" To: , Subject: Re: What kind of ISP/connection am I looking for? Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 00:18:44 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Our national telephone company has a package that allows high speed >connection >using a Dlink Ethernet card - they said it is possible to connect with >unix >providing "the operating system can handle a TCP/IP stack and a dynamic >IP address" Well, since the BSD TCP/IP stack *is* the standard TCP/IP Internet stack the world over, FreeBSD should be able to handle it. :-) Dynamic addresses (via DHCP) are no problem either! >(I would need a static IP wouldn't I?) Not necessarily (since there are dynamic-DNS services out there), but having a static IP would greatly simplify your life when running a server. If your phone company is so inclined, DHCP can be set up so that it assigns you the same IP address each time (part of the old BOOTP spec)... --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com FreeBSD Cheat Sheets http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message