Timothy Wood wrote: > 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?
IP addresses in the resnet (residential networks) are dynamically-assigned from various pools of 10.x (private) addresses. They are not route-able from off-campus, but they can be reached from any on-campus address. Also when your computer requests an address from the dhcp server, if you pass a hostname to it, and that hostname is not already in use, it will dynamically stick the hostname in the BYU DNS system. So if your computer was named foo, it could be reachable on campus at foo.rn.byu.edu. If you want to set up virtual networks, you can do it with an openvpn server running at some publicly-accessible address, or look at something like hamachi. -------------------- 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
