From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 25 8:20:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80E2937B407 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 08:20:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id RAA15773; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 17:28:49 +0200 Message-ID: <3B375719.E2BEB377@i-clue.de> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 17:22:01 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: j mckitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can i connect bsd laptop in place of my windows terminal? References: <20010625161411.A50527@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 j mckitrick schrieb: > > 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. Learn how your windoze box has been configured. Repeat the process with FreeBSD. To get more specific answers, ask a more specific question ;) HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message