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From: peter@ria.ccs.uwo.ca (Peter Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Ethernet Address Uniqueness...
Message-ID: <1990Oct19.120616@ria.ccs.uwo.ca>
Date: 19 Oct 90 11:06:16 GMT
References: <5A0A050B012801FE-MTAEMR1*fillmore@emrcan> <1990Oct5.123350.145@arizona.edu> <2126@excelan.COM>
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In article <2126@excelan.COM>, donp@na.excelan.com (don provan) writes:
|> In article <1990Oct5.123350.145@arizona.edu> leonard@arizona.edu writes:
|> >I believe that Novell's IPX similarly hacks the Ethernet address....
|> 
|> This has nothing to do with TCP-IP, but i don't want this rumor to
|> spread.  IPX does not modify the ethernet address.

While DECnet IV wants to change the ethernet number to match the DECnet node
and host number, IPX only requires the same ethernet number to be used on all
interfaces to a machine.  It doesn't care what they are set to.  This allows
DECnet and IPX to  coexist on the same router as long as you get the DECnet
running first and then start the IPX.


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Peter Marshall, Manager (Academic Networking)
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