Re: Networks are for corporations and offices, right?

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from "Patricia M. Godfrey"  on Fri, 16
Jun 2006 18:56:18 -0400


> Too many of the big guys
> try to tell you "You have to use/We don't support
> anything but/ Explorer and Outlook/Outlook Express."
> Not usually literally true

Never true.

> but they don't know or
> won't tell you stuff you need to know to configure
> other apps or opsyses to work.

Oh come on. You get connected, then you do what you want. There's no "stuff
you need to know to configure", especially with DHCP -- you don't even need to
know the DNS. If you have a static IP (and I simply would not go with any
broadband ISP that would not give me a static IP), you need to know four
things: your IPaddress, the subnet mask (almost always 255.255.255.0), their
Gateway address, and their DNS address -- all assigned or provided by the ISP
(indeed, you can use a third party DNS if you want -- I do). They have no clue
what OpSys you're running, especially if you're using a router, nor do they
care. Traffic is traffic.

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Robert Holmgren
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