Connecting a Computer to the Network
in the Mechanical Engineering Buildings or Akerman Hall

WARNING:
Make sure to remove any bridge network devices as attaching a machine acting as a router or switch or bridge is forbidden on ANY University Network (This also includes any device which allows network sharing or wireless access to the network).

Also note that you may not install servers of any kind (Web, Telnet, ftp, kazaa, EDonkey, IIS, Mail, Exchange, and many more) without prior permission of Enet. The only exception currently is sshd (use a current version). For more information see: The MEnet Policy Page

DO NOT CONNECT any device to any network port in the Mechanical Engineering Buildings nor Akerman Hall without first consulting Enet Staff.

Jacks are assigned for one machine only and ONLY the specific assigned machine should be connected to an assigned jack.
(If you connect any other machine, we will turn the jack off - WITHOUT NOTICE - we also may turn off the jack of the machine that was plugged into the wrong jack, and/or disable your access to use wireless/open-ports).

The Exception to the above rules are ports designated as OPEN-PORTS (jacks-open), to which you may connect any Computer which is used by only one person (computers only - no other device).
Contact Enet if you have questions.

Permission to connect your machine to an ASSIGNED jack will not be given until ALL of the information in the
Network Connect Form (ASCII TEXT ONLY - other forms will be refused)
is filled in and submitted to
Enet (menet@me.umn.edu)
(see below for information on how to find the Physical Address of your machine).

Most of the live jacks in conference rooms, the Student lounges, Meche 125 and Wireless connections all come under the category of OPEN-PORT (jacks-open). If you are unsure, ask Enet.

There also may be ports managed by NTS (A.K.A. Etherjack), for these we must contact NTS directly before connecting to them. So ask Enet in any case (we can let you know what we need).

Note:

• For Personal machines (Machines not owned by the University) your username will be used as the machine name, For personal machines an open-jack (jacks-open) will be used unless there is a good reason to enable a jack exclusively for that machine's use.

Finding the Physical Address (Ethernet Hardware Address) of Your Machine

• Windows 95/98/ME
  
  • start a program call winipcfg.exe Select more info for the proper network card and the Hardware Eternet address will be displayed.
  
  
• Windows NT/2000/XP
  
  • One way to get the hardware ethernet address is to open a cmd window (Start->Run "CMD") and in the cmd window type:

    			ipconfig /all
    		

    Or, to save it to a file:

    			ipconfig /all > c:\junk.txt
    		

    the resulting c:\junk.txt file is a text file you can just attach to the e-mail you send back to us (note: you should have the network card and drivers installed first - SEND THE COMPLETE FILE UN-EDITED). Please check the file to make sure the Hardware Ethernet address for the network card is listed.
  
  
• MacOS Classic (9 series and earlier)
  
  • The hardware ethernet address can be found with the 'TCP/IP' control panel open: do a 'Get Info' from the 'File' menu and the hardware address will be provided in the middle of the list. If your Mac uses MacTCP (systems earlier than 7.5, or 7.5 and later without Open Transport networking installed), you may have to update your system software.
  
  
• MacOS X (10.0.0 and later)
  
  • The hardware ethernet address can be found on the 'Network' System Preferences panel; to access this panel, go to the Apple Menu, select the 'System Preferences...' menu pulldown, and click on the icon for 'Network'. From the 'Show:' pulldown, select 'Built-in Ethernet' and click the 'TCP/IP' tab - the ethernet address should be displayed at the bottom left of the panel.