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From: cliff@demon.co.uk (Cliff Stanford)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Is pc-nfs useful to anyone?
Message-ID: <1991Mar24.205235.12933@demon.co.uk>
Date: 24 Mar 91 20:52:35 GMT
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In article <91074.125204TOMIII@MTUS5.BITNET> TOMIII@MTUS5.BITNET (Thomas Dwyer III) writes:
>Ever hear of RARP?  We currently have about 300 machines running PC-NFS,
>and never had a problem with duplicate host names.  The only thing the
>machines need to have unique are the Ethernet addresses, which I'm sure is
>never a problem with anyone.  :-)

	I've *heard* of RARP but I'd love to have some sort of explanation
of how it works.  Also, is there an implementation for SCO unix?
		Regards,
			Cliff
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