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- From: pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com (Dillon Pyron)
- Subject: Re: Ethernet address (sans code) ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.214036.26972@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
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- References: <1993Jan11.202015.79@ittpub.nl> <1993Jan12.152310.12125@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1993Jan12.122943.4238@arizona.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:40:36 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan12.122943.4238@arizona.edu>, leonard@telcom.arizona.edu (Aaron Leonard) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan12.152310.12125@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com (Dillon Pyron)
- >writes:
- [and I do, look it up]
- >
- >If you have the DECnet node number and wish to know the node's
- >Ethernet physical (vs. hardware) address, then this can be derived
- >algorithmically in a trivial manner. (An old article on the subject
- >follows.)
-
- Yes, I use that. But the request was for a no-code solution, which I took to
- be the no brainer approach.
-
- There are advantages to the calculated approach, such as when the machine in
- question is stone cold down.
- >
- >Best,
- >
- >Aaron
- >
- >Aaron Leonard (AL104), <Leonard@Arizona.EDU>
- >University of Arizona Network Operations, Tucson AZ 85721
- > "It's not a bug, it's a form of flow control."
- > - Jerry Leichter on why crash-prone Unix is a suitable
- > platform for NSFNET core routers
- [Aaron's repost of eariler article omitted, look it up]
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