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From: dls@mace.cc.purdue.edu (David L Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: NFS ID mapping
Message-ID: <2640@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 30 Jun 89 21:36:41 GMT
References: <1120@servax0.essex.ac.uk> <10406@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1839@auspex.auspex.com> <10463@smoke.BRL.MIL> <903@mtxinu.UUCP> <10472@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: dls@mace.cc.purdue.edu (David L Stevens)
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	IP address is better than Ethernet address, though. "Manufacturer"
ties "universal IDs" to hardware that's widely distributed, where an
<IPaddr,uid> pair helps you find someone in the global community of ids.
Routing information is encoded in the uid *and* the IP addresses are already
assigned.
	In fact, translating "user@host" into a 6-byte <IPaddr,uid> is trivial.

	This probably shouldn't stay in bugs.4bsd; guilty as charged.
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