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Article #323Re: IP Number management
From: Randal L. Schwartz
Date: Thu, 23 May 1991 06:07
Date: Thu, 23 May 1991 06:07
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In article <1991May22.224555.2248@ariel.unm.edu>, pkrause@triton (Paul Krause CIRT) writes: | Only a little. We have had multiple cases of people erasing their hard drive | and copying all the files from someone else with a resulting conflict. We | did have an employee quit, another person start using his machine and him | then coming back and getting a 2nd number. It does not require a large | intuitive leap to envision more "interesting" problems that I don't know | about yet. You know, if the boxes supported RARP, and you had a RARP server, you wouldn't have these problems. Ether addresses are pretty darn unique and can't be copied just by copying hard disks. Just another network admin, -- /=Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ==========\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Beaverton, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!any-MX-mailer-like-uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \=Cute Quote: "Intel: putting the 'backward' in 'backward compatible'..."====/
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!iwarp.intel.com!news From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: IP Number management Message-ID: <1991May23.060743.15364@iwarp.intel.com> Date: 23 May 91 06:07:43 GMT References: <1991May22.130444.1410@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <1991May22.171817.21820@ariel.unm.edu> <1991May22.201938.6749@news.larc.nasa.gov> <1991May22.224555.2248@ariel.unm.edu> Sender: news@iwarp.intel.com Reply-To: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Organization: Stonehenge; netaccess via Intel, Beaverton, Oregon, USA Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: pkrause@triton.unm.edu (Paul Krause CIRT)