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- From: veizades@apple.com (John Veizades)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: MacTCP Programming idea/request
- Message-ID: <veizades-111292103328@kip-5.apple.com>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 18:34:33 GMT
- References: <1992Dec11.083919.1344@galaxy.gov.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@gallant.apple.com
- Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
- Lines: 22
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- In article <1992Dec11.083919.1344@galaxy.gov.bc.ca>,
- cconstantine@galaxy.gov.bc.ca wrote:
- >
- > Here is an interesting programming request/idea for use on MacTCP Ethernet
- > networks. Write a utility that will poll all of the Mac's on the network for
- > their IP address. This would be a method of IP control as well as determining
- > if there are duplicate addresses on the net. This utility should possibly also
- > be able to get the ethernet address (NIC) of the actual ethernet card as well.
- > This way, it can be compared to an existing database and you could track down
- > exactly who is using what address.
- >
- The current version of MacTCP (1.1.1) will no allow the system to come up
- unless it has a unique IP address (MacTCP ARPs for its own address before
- completing the open). The next version of MacTCP (2.0) will inform the
- user of the IP address and hardware address of the offending host through
- the use of an alert.
-
- I think this solves your concern.
-
- John Veizades...
- Apple Computer, Inc.
- MacTCP Lead Engineer
-