[P1] SMC Router setup

[Mike Beede]

On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 15:34 US/Central, Jack Rodgers wrote:

>
> On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 01:29  PM, Joyce Ranieri wrote:
>
>> My ISP (Road Runner) doesn't allow fixed IP addresses, so I assume I 
>> won't be able to connect to my home network from school. Any 
>> work-arounds?
>
> Whenever you are connected you have a temporarily fixed IP number. The 
> problem then becomes two fold, keeping the connection and finding out 
> what the number is. You should be able to keep it as long as you have 
> some kind of activity. Finding out what the number is may be more 
> difficult. You could for instance email it to yourself every few 
> minutes or you could simply call and ask someone to look and see what 
> it is.
>
> Internet Connect shows the number and Fruit Menu shows it in the Apple 
> Menu using OS X.

The problem is that you want the IP address of your router, not of the
iMac.  Luckily the SMC supports a thing called DDNS which can handle
this.  You have to have a domain name, though it looks like they'll
give you one for free.  Since you just need it to be able to log in
from home, the fact that it's something like joyce.kicks-ass.net 
shouldn't
be a show stopper (that's really one of the domains they offer names 
in).
See <http://www.dyndns.org> for details.

For folks with just a Mac connected directly to the net, there are 
applications
that can handle updating your IP with this service, too.  I haven't 
tried
it, but I just might.

	Mike