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Chapter 1: Overview of the Internet Gateway
Information Your ISP May Provide
Table 1-2 shows some of the information your ISP may provide.
Table 1-2
Information Your ISP May Provide
Type of Information
Value
Account name
The name of the account you will use to access the ISP. This is
similar to an IRIX (UNIX) login account name; it might be an
abbreviated name of your company or organization, or it could
be some other series of letters or numbers.
Account password
The password your software uses to access the account you have
with your ISP.
Phone number
If you are using ISDN or a dial-up (modem) connection, this is
the phone number the server calls to connect to your ISP.
Baud rate for your modem
If you are using a modem, the maximum baud rate at which the
ISP accepts data from your modem.
IP address of your gateway
Your ISP may assign an Internet protocol (IP) address to your
gateway machine. This address number is how other systems on
both the Internet and on your local area network (LAN) identify
your server. The address is a series of numbers separated by
decimal points, for example 151.166.96.36.
IP address of a name server
This is the IP address of another machine, probably located at the
ISP, that provides Internet name services for you. When your
server needs to locate another system on the Internet, it contacts
this machine. Conversely, when other systems try to locate your
server, they contact this machine.
Domain name
This is the name of the Internet domain in which your server
resides. It can be the name of your company (for example,
toyparts.com), the name of your organization (freestuff.org), or
some part of your geographic location (for example,
janedoe.sf.ca.us, which would indicate a server located in San
Francisco, California, in the United States of America.)
