Building the Connection

Various bits of information need to be gathered to make this connection possible. We probably need to rely on a number of different people to supply this information, such as the system administrator and the ISP. (Note that when we refer to the ISP, this may actually be an internal department that is responsible for the network. Bear in mind that your ISP may be different; for example, some ISPs will provide you with a user name while others may allow you to specify your own, or they may allocate a static IP address, while others may provide dynamic ones.) It doesn't really matter how the settings are supplied, as long as you are aware of who should be supplying them.

Table 15.1 shows the values we are using and, in our case, who has supplied them.