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- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!skl
- From: skl@wimsey.bc.ca (Samuel Lam)
- Subject: Re: PCS WITH DUPLICATE TCP ADDRESSES
- Reply-To: skl@wimsey.bc.ca (Samuel Lam)
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 20:14:35 GMT
- Message-ID: <BzIw8B.9xH@wimsey.bc.ca>
- References: <1992Dec19.000209.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca>
- Sender: skl@wimsey.bc.ca ( )
- Lines: 19
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- In article <1992Dec19.000209.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca>, wayne@kean.ucs.mun.ca wrote:
- >Many times pc users copy the kermit file from their pc around to other
- >machines. One of the files they copy is mskermit.ini that has the tcp
- >address of the person's pc. When that file is copied, the receiving machine
- >also gets the tcp address of the copying machine.
-
- MS-Kermit can use the BOOTP protocol to obtain its IP address from a
- server at run-time rather than using an IP address hardwired inside
- a local configuration file. The BOOTP server will hand out an unique
- IP address to each machine, usually after using the client machine's
- globally unique Ethernet transceiver address as a key to do a table
- lookup.
-
- Note that old MSKERMIT.INI files with hardwired IP addresses floating
- around on floppies could still cause you problems.
-
- ...Sam
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- <skl@wimsey.bc.ca> -- Connectivity Technology Inc.
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