Can you hook up a router to the school's network?

[venom600]

I was wondering if you could hook up a router to the school's network?

I want to hook up two computers to one ip.
I bought a Linksys router and tried to hook from the wall to the router and from the router to one computer

I can't seem to get this to work and was wondering if anyone has ever done this

 

[n0cmonkey]

Do they hand out ips based on MAC addresses? Have you talked to the admin staff? Have you turned on proxy-arp (*watches for spidey07 )?

 

[venom600]

What is a MAC address?
is that my IP address?
and i don't have any proxy's up and what is spidey07 ? ?

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< What is a MAC address? >>



Its a hardware address on your NIC. whatis.com can be your friend. Look it up because its late and Im having trouble thinking of an easy way to explain it



<< is that my IP address? >>



Not quite.



<< and i don't have any proxy's up and what is spidey07 ? ? >>



Disregard that part

 

[spidey07]

sure you can hook one up. Just check with the school first

 

[Hoober]

Yep, make sure you check with the school's network admins, though. Misconfigure that router and you take down the whole network.