Using Mac OS X with the UIC-Net Campus Network

• Your Mac may have a registered IP address and host name if it is in a campus office or lab. If you don't know what its is, ask your department's REACH member. Don't know who that is? Look up your department on the UIC A-Z page, or call the CSO at (312)413-0003 and ask them.
  

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  Host name:

  
  
• If your Mac is in a campus office or lab, not have an assigned IP address, but rather use DHCP. In that case, see Do it Automatically, with DHCP. Don't know whether you're supposed to use DHCP? It doesn't hurt to try. If it works, then you can use it.
  
  
• If you're a student connecting from a campus dorm room, see the Res-Net Web page: http://www.accc.uic.edu/lan/res-net/

1. Select Apple menu -> System Menu -> Network -> TCP/IP to open the TCP/IP control panel.
2. Click Assist me..., then click Assistant... from the dialog box that opens.
3. Type in the name of the connection and click Continue.
   
4. Mac OS X tries to make a connection. If there is a DHCP server to connect to you will receive a message saying that you are connected. Click Done.
   
5. The resulting configuration has an IP address, a Subnet Mask, and Router. You should add the DNS Servers as below. The figure below is for my Mac in my office at the ACCC, so I have the ACCC's domain for my Search Domain: cc.uic.edu
   
6. This connection will continue if you shutdown or restart. If you should ever need to reconnect, click the Renew DHCP Lease button.
   

My Mac has a permanent, registered, IP address, so I normally use that static IP address:

1. Select Apple menu -> System Menu -> Network -> TCP/IP to open the TCP/IP control panel.
2. Set the following values:
   
• Location: Automatic
• Show: Select Built-in Ethernet
• Configure IPv4: Select Manually
• IP Address: Type your machine's IP address.
  East side IP addresses begin with: 131.193.
  West side IP addresses begin with: 128.248.
• Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
• Router address: Type the first three parts of your machine's IP address and then 1 as the fourth part.
  Thus, if your IP address was 128.248.5.122,
  then your Router would be 128.248.5.1
• Name Server addresses:
  
  • 128.248.2.50
  • 128.248.7.50
  • 128.248.171.50
• Search domains: uic.edu
3. The following is the static IP address configuration that I use on my Mac:
   
   

In either case, your connection to UIC-Net will start automatically. Run any Internet or Web-related applications by double-clicking on their icons in your Applications folder or single-clicking on their icons in your dock.