Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!agate!bionet!apple!brooks
From: brooks@Apple.COM (Kevin Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Network Monitor
Message-ID: <23752@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 11 Jan 89 17:00:51 GMT
References: <8901110133.AA02616@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <8901110133.AA02616@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> murayama@CS.UCL.AC.UK (Yuko Murayama, +44-1-387-7050 ext.3695) writes:
>
>Just from curiosity, can any of those monitors have its own
>IP address and send out a packet ( a probe or some kind)
>to the net?    Or are they listen-only?
>
>Yuko

You don't actually asign an IP address to the monitors since TCP/IP is not
there game, but they all have their own ethernet address and can all transmit
packets out.  You can define the bytes in the packet if you need to, to say
simulate an IP address and some type of request.  The Excelan is the only
monitor that can transmit and monitor the net at the same time.
Kevin Brooks
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