Your machine will ask you to reboot. Once your machine has rebooted, you should be able to get onto the Internet. If you are unable to access the internet, double check your configuration by running through your settings again, and if that is not working there is a simple check you can do on your machine to see if the information you have entered is bound to your ethernet card. Please see the DSL Troubleshooting Checklist . Since you will now have an IP address that can be reached from anywhere on the Internet, there are security issues to be concerned with.
Computers allow access to themselves through numbered 'ports'.
If you are a customer with a home network, your 'File and Printer Sharing' protocol may be allowing access to your machine, which isn't good. If you're running Windows NT Workstation , you may have more ports open than you realize. We recommend that you check on your computer's vulnerability or install a firewall program such as the one above. But you can still run a firewall program. Please visit your favorite Macintosh site for more information.