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From: m20481@MWVM.MITRE.ORG (Heather Mackintosh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Routing
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Date: 30 May 91 11:46:23 GMT
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Here is the situation:  Currently I have 18 nodes on token ring.  I am going
to be moving them to our Corporate ethernet.  The problem is that there are
other departments within my company that already have Apollos on the
ethernet.  When I put my nodes on the ethernet, the other departments
will be able to get onto my nodes.  The danger is that they can log in on
their nodes as root and crp onto my nodes as root.

The corporate ethernet's net ID is 1.  I can't change my nodes net ID to
something else because whenever I reboot it, the net ID is changed back
to 1.

I called Apollo response line and they said that there is only one way around
it:  Put all of your nodes on a seperate ethernet line and then have a node
with 2 ethernet cards act as a router.  Well, I can't do this because we are
not allowed to do cabling in our building.  We have to use the existing
ethernet cable that is in every office.

Does anyone know a way around this problem?  Any help would be appreciated.
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