Connecting your laptop to the CSE Network
All staff and postgraduate students with an assigned office or desk will usually have at least 2 network wall ports available for their use. To use a laptop, simply fill out a New Network Connection Form; SS will then assign an IP to the laptop and activate the wall port. The MAC address will be printed on the network card and can also be learnt via the ifconfig -a (*nix) and ipconfig -all (Windows) commands, or under Network on a Mac. Look for a field with a name like 'physical address', 'hardware address' or 'ethernet address' with a value something like 25:00:40:ad:6d:88.
All traffic from the wireless network and the basement laptop lab are attributed to your IP quota.Laptop Lounge
The Laptop Lounge is located at the basement of CSE. The network wall sockets surrounding the basement public seating area are internet enabled. To take advantage of any of the sockets, you'll need a network capable computing device (e.g. laptop with network card) and a cable.Suppose you have a laptop with a network socket of the rectangular RJ45 variety and a cat-5 cable (not a cross-over cable) - Often referred to as "blue cables" due to the common colour. Plug one end of the cable into the laptop and the other end into the wall, configure the settings on your preferred operating system so that it behaves as a DHCP client, set your internet browser to use the school's proxy at "www-proxy.cse.unsw.edu.au" port "3128", and stop and start things, as is sometimes necessary. You should then be able to access everything on the internet as you might otherwise do at an internet cafe.
Do not attempt to plug your laptop into the network in the labs.All of the switches through which the lab machines are connected have port security enabled, which means that the switches will not allow any machine other than the registered and recognised lab workstation to be connected to the CSE network via their ports. Attempting to connect any machine other than the lab workstation will result in the switch blocking all connections to that port (including reconnection of the registered workstation), and has been known to result in more serious network related problems.