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get? what kind of ip? inside a lan you just assign yourself a valid one. on the internet you ask your isp. Actually writing more than 8 words would help in future...
get? what kind of ip? inside a lan you just assign yourself a valid one. on the internet you ask your isp. Actually writing more than 8 words would help in future...
Distribution: approximately NixOS (http://nixos.org)
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I'd say that it depends heavily on your Internet service provider. It can cost extra, or it can be available only with access packages that are more than you need for more money than you pay now. Maybe switching ISP can give you better prices for globally visible IP address - that should be asked on local (geographically) forums.
But on the other hand, think what do you need that for. If you just need to be able to download some 100KB files from your computer while being somewhere else, maybe using IPv6 tunnel broker (http://go6.net , for example) and SixXS gateway (look at sixxs.org, or pay attention to differences between http://go6.net.ipv4.sixxs.org and http://go6.net) is enough. If you need just SSH to your home machine from some other machine that is under your partial control, IPv6 can also can be a solution.
For redhat. As you list in your profile as your distro.
I usually ask linuxquestions only after I search for days or hours (sometimes weeks or months) before asking.
But when I typed in (on www.yahoo.com) redhat network configuration, the first link contains what you need.
But here it is:
To use the Network Administration Tool, you must be running the X Window System and have root privileges. To start the application, go to the Main Menu Button (on the Panel) => System Settings => Network, or type the command redhat-config-network at a shell prompt (for example, in an XTerm or a GNOME terminal).
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