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- From: jkumar@fac.cabot.nf.ca (Jey Kumar)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.cmu-tek
- Subject: VMS, PCs, Kermit & Bootp...HELPPPP!
- Message-ID: <009656cc.ab847460.20189@fac.cabot.nf.ca>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 20:25:55 GMT
- Reply-To: CMU-OpenVMS-IP@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
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- We are running CMU TCP on a VAX/VMS system. We have PCs with ethernet
- boards at our local campus and the 4 remote campus connected via remote
- ethernet bridges. All these PCs telnet to this VAX using Kermit 3.11
- ( which has built-in telnet ).
-
- Many times pc users copy the kermit files 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 other machine. And on it goes. Sometimes
- a whole lab of pc's gets the same tcp address. The network dies a slow
- death.
-
- My question is as follows:
- 1)"Is there a way to prevent a pc from accessing the network
- if there is already a pc on the network at that moment with the same tcp
- address as the one attempting access?" and,
- 2)"Is there a way to dynamically assign the pc with an IP address from
- the VAX running VMS and CMU TCP"
-
- We know that Kermit 3.11 and higher on the PC will work with the BOOTP
- protocol. Is there a BOOTP server solution that will run on a VAX running
- VMS and CMU TCP? As this would be ideal.
-
- Any help would be greatly appreciated.
- Thank you and Merry Christmas,
-
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- Jey Kumarasingam CA*Net jkumar@fac.cabot.nf.ca
- Cabot College
- St. John's, NF
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