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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Ethernet question
Message-ID: <1990Jul14.063620.4375@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 14 Jul 90 06:36:20 GMT
References: <23877@adm.BRL.MIL>
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In-Reply-To: terry@cssun.tamu.edu (Terry Escamilla)

In article <23877@adm.BRL.MIL>, terry@cssun (Terry Escamilla) writes:
| Is it possible for a workstation on an Ethernet to dynamically
| determine the Internet (or even Ethernet) addresses of the
| hosts/workstations immediately to its left and right?  
| I guess this would be like an "intelligent" ping or ARP.

Ethernet is flat.  (Well, OK, the cable is round. :-) Your broadcasts
are flooded to every reciever on the cable.  There's no left or right
in electron space.

Just another cybernetic hallucination,
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