On Tuesday 27 April 2010 09:19:12 pm Dave Smith wrote: > Wow, can I just say that things have changed a lot since I was at BYU. > Back then, everyone in the dorms got a publically routeable IP address > with no firewall. That was awesome! My dorm computer was directly > reachable from my home computer. Of course, back then I was running > Windows 95, so it crashed after about 4 days, but hey, those were the days.
You saying that IP addresses in the dorms are dynamically assigned? I've assumed so, but I still wondered. I've been thinking about trying to share my printer to my sister in her dorm over some kind of virtual network or something (surely an advanced computing project that I know little to nothing about). That would require some sort of static address, wouldn't it? Thinking about this sort of thing reminds me how much I have to learn about networking and computers. But, that's why I'm here at college. :) Timothy Wood -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
