Re: Confused/confusing VM TCP/IP

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From: Ken Howard
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1990 15:32

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On Thu, 22 Feb 90 19:40:56 PST Paul Molyski said:
>Something all "chief of security" people should be aware of.
>

I RESIGN!!!

>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>We have also had an instance where a user started up a MACII and duplicated
>our mainframe's IP address.  Apparrently, the MAC sent out a message saying
>'this is my IP address, and this is my ethernet address', which was picked up
>by the big system.  It saw it's own IP address, and updated the online version
>of it's ethernet address.
>
>Our 'fix' was to shutdown and re-ipl the TCP/IP account and reset our 8232.
>
>I am not sure if a fix is available for this; our solution was to tell the
>MAC user not to do it again....  :-)
>
>Paul Goodwin
>Georgia Institute of Technology
>'As a general rule, Georgia Tech doubts everything that I say'

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Ken Howard                                     KHOWARD @ UVVM.UVIC.CA
Communications Systems, Computing Services
University of Victoria                                   604/721-7659
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