As stated below, I'm enrolled at Rice, although I've been on leave this past semester. A direct reply to the original message didn't work, so I'm sending this all back to the list in hopes it gets to the right place. Anyone else who wants to comment -- feel free, but I doubt most of it is of any interest to debian-devel in general.
Andy ----- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: (qmail 20646 invoked by uid 1014); 23 Jun 1998 21:21:45 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 17:21:44 -0400 From: Anderson MacKay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Robert Edmonds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Anyone at Rice University? References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1 In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from Robert Edmonds on Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 08:54:42PM +0000 On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 08:54:42PM +0000, Robert Edmonds wrote: > Are there any Debian users/developers at Rice University in Houstin, > Texas? My cousin came back home for summer vacation and I've set up his > computer running Debian. However, it's got an Ethernet card (EtherLink III > - set it up fine with the 3c509 module) and someone's going to have to set > it up to use Rice's network when he gets back. He barely knows tcsh, > unfortunately, I wonder if there are any Debian people at Rice that are > familiar with the network to set it up for him. Oooh! Cool. I'm sorta a student-in-exile from Rice at the moment. I can give you some details on setting up for the network there if you want, although I can't physically help out. (I'm currently on leave doing a co-op with NASA at Kennedy Space Ctr -- so I'm a little out of the Rice loop at present. :) But I successfully ran oceania.brown.rice.edu as a Debian 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 machine with the very same Etherlink III you're using. It was quite painless after wrestling with BOOTP to get an IP address. The secret is this -- rather than wrestle with bootp under Linux, just grab a handy Mac or PC laptop from someone around whatever college he's at, and plug that into the candidate port. The bootp addresses are hard-wired to the physical ports, so once you figure out the IP address of a specific port, then just statically config the Debian box in /etc/init.d to come up at that IP address. IIRC, the netmask is the usual 255.255.255.0 for a class B subnet (I could be wrong on that, though ...), the primary DNS server is moe.rice.edu at 128.42.5.4, the broadcast is standard 128.42.xx.255, and I -think- the default gateway for a given college subnet is 128.42.xx.254. A second guess would be 128.42.xx.2, but I'm pretty sure the 254 address is who you want to route through. If it's helpful I'll be glad to send him my home phone number -- and if he wouldn't mind calling I'll talk him through whatever. Also, the problem tracking system out at Rice is -very- helpful, although I'm not sure you can get to it through their firewall. Try http://problem.rice.edu, or if you need specific info try emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- they even gave me a second IP address on my ethernet port so that I could hook my Newton MessagePad 2000 up using the Debian box as a router via PPP. Really nice and helpful folks. Related, what college (residential college, that is ...) is he at? Is he a freshman this year, or what? I'll be back at Rice either in about 6 months, or about 10 months from now ... I'll be roughly of senior status at that point. Oh, well ... let me know if I can be of further help. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anderson MacKay | Merritt Island, Florida, US Microsoft != standard. Just trust me. | http://oceania.tnn.net/~iris | <-- PGP key and other goodies ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out Debian GNU/Linux, http://www.debian.org ----- End forwarded message ----- -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anderson MacKay | Merritt Island, Florida, US Microsoft != standard. Just trust me. | http://oceania.tnn.net/~iris | <-- PGP key and other goodies ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out Debian GNU/Linux, http://www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
