Need help! I have a friend going to Law School in the DC area. Judging by his email, I think he needs a way to configure a subnet mask WHILE using DHCP. I gather the law school has segmented it's IP range in such a way the OS X netowrking GUI may not be able to handle.
He's a novice. However, this question has passed my knowledge of networking. Can you please read his email and ponder a solution for our good friend, Rich?
-SM
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>Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 21:05:37 -0400
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>Chris,
>
>Ellen Feiss is the whole reason I got my mac. She's kinda hot in
>that "she's-a-high-college-girl" kind of way. There are whole
>websites dedicated to her. I think you can even get an OSX icon
>with her picture...
>
>Also: Here's my best shot at explaining my network story. If you
>have any ideas, I'm all ears, but it sounds like the CUA-Law network
>is just wired in a way that did NOT anticipate supporting Macs.
>Read it if you're interested from a techincal standpoint, for sheer
>entertainment. Otherwise, have a great day and don't let let the
>thought that I spent 1/2 the night trying to write this all out even
>cross your mind. ;-)
>
>I talked with CUA-Law's network guy. He explained that 1. The law
>school network runs as a sub-branch of the university network (keep
>the distinction in mind as you read on), and 2. on the CUA network,
>the gateway and the stream come in on 2 different DHCP addresses (?)
>or subnet masks or whatever (that allows them to separate students
>from admin., for network security). On Windows 2000, they just
>manually change the setting, but OSX.1 assumes the gateway and
>stream come in on the same... thing.
>
>I hooked up my G4 (looking all cool, flashing my titanium and
>whatnot)and showed him that I was sending (some) ping and receiving
>(lots of) ping. The little ethernet light was going "blink blink
>blink." Obviously, we were getting a feed.
>
>We played with the apple talk "on" button and managed to get the
>connection up... in his office. He thinks were were piggy-backing
>on the university network's appletalk zone. The catch is, the law
>school is wired a little differently.
>
>The problem on the law school network is that every other network
>connection that students can access goes through a switch that
>doesn't have the appletalk zone turned on.
>
>Anyway, I left him scratching his head trying to figure this problem
>out. I don't know how the CUA network compares to most systems, but
>it seems like they should just enable the appletalk zone on the
>switch machine and voila! He said that would take some programming,
>and there's only one guy on campus certified to do that, so it would
>take about... 10 years.
>
>Anyway, all is not lost. They're piloting a wireless network, which
>happens NOT to go through this mac-killing switch. As a solution,
>he might give me a wireless card so I can just use that.
>
>OSX.2--er, I mean-- Jaguar--supposedly fixed the network setting
>panel so that I could manually set DHCP and subnet mask whatever (I
>can manually set now, but apparently not the one I need to).
>
>If you're intersted, I'll let you know how this all pans out.
>
>Cheers,
>
>
>--Rich
He's a novice. However, this question has passed my knowledge of networking. Can you please read his email and ponder a solution for our good friend, Rich?
-SM
------
>Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 21:05:37 -0400
>
>Chris,
>
>Ellen Feiss is the whole reason I got my mac. She's kinda hot in
>that "she's-a-high-college-girl" kind of way. There are whole
>websites dedicated to her. I think you can even get an OSX icon
>with her picture...
>
>Also: Here's my best shot at explaining my network story. If you
>have any ideas, I'm all ears, but it sounds like the CUA-Law network
>is just wired in a way that did NOT anticipate supporting Macs.
>Read it if you're interested from a techincal standpoint, for sheer
>entertainment. Otherwise, have a great day and don't let let the
>thought that I spent 1/2 the night trying to write this all out even
>cross your mind. ;-)
>
>I talked with CUA-Law's network guy. He explained that 1. The law
>school network runs as a sub-branch of the university network (keep
>the distinction in mind as you read on), and 2. on the CUA network,
>the gateway and the stream come in on 2 different DHCP addresses (?)
>or subnet masks or whatever (that allows them to separate students
>from admin., for network security). On Windows 2000, they just
>manually change the setting, but OSX.1 assumes the gateway and
>stream come in on the same... thing.
>
>I hooked up my G4 (looking all cool, flashing my titanium and
>whatnot)and showed him that I was sending (some) ping and receiving
>(lots of) ping. The little ethernet light was going "blink blink
>blink." Obviously, we were getting a feed.
>
>We played with the apple talk "on" button and managed to get the
>connection up... in his office. He thinks were were piggy-backing
>on the university network's appletalk zone. The catch is, the law
>school is wired a little differently.
>
>The problem on the law school network is that every other network
>connection that students can access goes through a switch that
>doesn't have the appletalk zone turned on.
>
>Anyway, I left him scratching his head trying to figure this problem
>out. I don't know how the CUA network compares to most systems, but
>it seems like they should just enable the appletalk zone on the
>switch machine and voila! He said that would take some programming,
>and there's only one guy on campus certified to do that, so it would
>take about... 10 years.
>
>Anyway, all is not lost. They're piloting a wireless network, which
>happens NOT to go through this mac-killing switch. As a solution,
>he might give me a wireless card so I can just use that.
>
>OSX.2--er, I mean-- Jaguar--supposedly fixed the network setting
>panel so that I could manually set DHCP and subnet mask whatever (I
>can manually set now, but apparently not the one I need to).
>
>If you're intersted, I'll let you know how this all pans out.
>
>Cheers,
>
>
>--Rich