I thought Cisco had changed it so the user agent wasn't the only thing it looked at to identify your system. As a side note, I would configure your router as a switch instead so the computers behind your router still get 10.x.x.x rather than 192.168.x.x addresses. With that method, I believe you don't need to do any port forwarding. I think you just set DHCP passthrough, give your router a DHCP or static IP on the subnet, and turn off the DHCP service on the router.
2010/4/28 Brian Phillips <[email protected]>: > Timothy Wood wrote: >> On Tuesday 27 April 2010 10:11:18 pm Dallin Terry wrote: >>> Yes, the hostname is the same thing and it should be automatically >>> passed through your router. Counter-Strike ftw. >> >> On Wednesday 28 April 2010 05:45:22 am Brian Phillips wrote: >>> I haven't seen a commercial firmware that doesn't allow you to set >>> the hostname of your router. Some ISPs require the indentification >>> of a hostname for access to their network (weird), so it's a setting >>> that is easily configurable through the web setup screens. It's >>> usually a default "linksys", "cisco", "dlink" etc. and found on the >>> same pages as your DHCP/Static IP Address configuration pages. >> >> So if there was a network service running on my router or my >> computer, I could just type in myhostname.rn.byu.edu to access it? >> And which one, the router's or the computer's? > > Myhostname.rn.byu.edu will access your router's external (WAN) interface. > It's up to you to forward the ports/applications to the NATed computers > behind the router. This assumes you set your router's hostname to > "myhostname". The address is only accessible from on-campus computers. > >> >> Ok, here's a new chapter in my story: >> Since I authenticated on Sunday with my computer directly plugged in >> (my router wasn't set up), I had assumed that I needed to access the >> network using the same MAC address that authenticated (my computers' >> MAC). So until now, I had set my router to use my computer's MAC to >> access the network. Today, I wondered if that was necessary, and set >> the router back to it's default MAC. I did have to reauthenticate, >> but after I entered my netID and password, I didn't have to go >> through any checks. > > The system logs the MAC address of the authenticated interface. In this > case, you authenticated from behind the router, so even though the router is > running it's own firmware, the system believes that the router is a computer > running whatever OS the authenticated computer was running. > > Once a router is authenticated, all devices behind the router are assumed to > be authenticated. > > Once a MAC address is authenticated, the OS can change and it won't require > you to reauthenticate until the MAC expires a week later. So if you > dual-boot, you only need to authenticate in one of the Oses, and the other > one will be authenticated. > >> >> Which brings me to another question: How did the network know that >> I'm not on Windows? The browser identification? > > Yes, your browsers user agent tells the system what OS you are on (and a > bunch of other information). Technically, you could run windows and change > your user agent to tell the authentication system that you are running > linux. You would then not have to scan your computer with the java utility, > and instead just authenticate as you have done under linux. > > http://whatsmyuseragent.com/ > > Brian > > -------------------- > 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 > -- Dallin Terry -------------------- 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
