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From: kevinr@moe.Tandem.COM (Kevin J. Rowett)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: How do you get a ENet Addr?
Message-ID: <1990Jul27.232750.22472@tandem.com>
Date: 27 Jul 90 23:27:50 GMT
References: <488@eng3.UUCP> <1990Jul25.090203.1@rogue.llnl.gov> <1990Jul25.184017.192@tandem.com> <65311@sgi.sgi.com>
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In article <65311@sgi.sgi.com>, rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock) writes:
|> In article <1990Jul25.184017.192@tandem.com> kevinr@Tandem.COM writes:
|> | address.  We still allow the end user to change the current address,
|> | but the software will never let him pick a globally assigned
|> | style address.
|> +---------------
|> as "the" host address, and then that value is written back into *all* of the
|> network interfaces.
|> 
|> Clearly, your software restriction would prevent this.

Not really, as the customer can set ther MAC address to any locally admin'ed
address they choose.

kevinr@Tandem.com