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From: ssw@cica.cica.indiana.edu (Steve Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: RARP, anyone?
Message-ID: <454@cica.cica.indiana.edu>
Date: 15 Feb 90 18:39:58 GMT
References: <9002150227.AA22941@sanj>
Organization: Center for Innov. Comp. Appl., Bloomington, IN
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HENRYM@SACMGR.UUCP writes:
>	We are in the process of connecting our numerous Novell networks
>into our building-wide backbone.  We will be using NCSA Telnet on the
>various PC's to connect to our VAX systems so that the users can use
>the PC's as terminals.  However, we see a problem with letting the
>individual users grab their boot disks from another user, in that the
>config file for that particular PC has their Internet number hardwired
>into it.  For security reasons, we want to enfore the rule that each
>PC has a unique, assigned Internet number.  Therefore, it occurs to us
>that the RARP option that NCSA Telnet can support would be an ideal
>solution.

>-HWM

There is a simple hack that will allow IP address to be assigned
dynamically my the Novell server.

In the system login script include the following line:
set myip = "%station"

Create a batch file something like this

echo myip = 129.79.16.%myip% > config.tmp
copy config.tmp + base.tel config.tel
telbin %1 %2 %3


Make base.tel your standard config.tel file minus the "myip"
line.

This will work for some environments.  The %station will be a
unique number between 1 and 100 for each workstation attached to
that server.


Steven Wallace
ssw@lavanix.bacs.indiana.edu