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 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.