To activate your subscription to OED Online , you will need to give us those IP addresses which both uniquely identify the eligible machines on your network and allow access only to authorized users of your subscription. All IP addresses contain 4 numeric segments, separated by periods. See example below. Please make sure you've correctly identified all needed IP addresses. Those using addresses not registered will not have access to OED Online.
Some institutions use proxy servers to network their environment.
This means that all the IP addresses of the computers people are using appear to the OED Online server as a single IP address. If your institution uses a proxy server, please ensure that the proxy server is used only by your institution. If it is, please enter it as part of your subscription. If the proxy server is used by people not covered by your OED Online subscription, please contact us to work out a solution. No segments of an IP address can be blank.