Path: utzoo!utgpu!CUNYVM!IBMTCP-L Date: Fri, 23 Feb 90 10:32:24 EST Reply-To: IBM TCP/IP For VM List Sender: IBM TCP/IP For VM List From: Ken Howard Subject: Re: Confused/confusing VM TCP/IP To: UofToronto LAN redistribution References: Message of Thu, Message-ID: <90Feb23.104658est.58713@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> Newsgroups: list.ibmtcp-l Distribution: ut Approved: devnull@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu On Thu, 22 Feb 90 19:40:56 PST Paul Molyski said: >Something all "chief of security" people should be aware of. > I RESIGN!!! >----------------------------Original message---------------------------- >We have also had an instance where a user started up a MACII and duplicated >our mainframe's IP address. Apparrently, the MAC sent out a message saying >'this is my IP address, and this is my ethernet address', which was picked up >by the big system. It saw it's own IP address, and updated the online version >of it's ethernet address. > >Our 'fix' was to shutdown and re-ipl the TCP/IP account and reset our 8232. > >I am not sure if a fix is available for this; our solution was to tell the >MAC user not to do it again.... :-) > >Paul Goodwin >Georgia Institute of Technology >'As a general rule, Georgia Tech doubts everything that I say' --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ken Howard KHOWARD @ UVVM.UVIC.CA Communications Systems, Computing Services University of Victoria 604/721-7659 ---------------------------------------------------------------------