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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!olymp!boss1!juengst
- From: juengst@boss1.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst)
- Subject: /etc/ethers ?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.143014.25083@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de>
- Keywords: /etc/ethers
- Sender: juengst@boss1 (Henry G. Juengst)
- Organization: Universit"at Bonn, Informatikinstitut, R"omerstr 154, W-5300 Bonn 1
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 14:30:14 GMT
- Lines: 15
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- Does BSD use /etc/ethers ? Other OSs use it to make sure that no machine
- does contact with an illegal IP address (if IP address and ethernet address
- are not the same found in /etc/ethers).
-
- Ok, ethernet addresses can be modified, but it's not so easy if you haven't
- got the software to do it.
-
- Henry
-
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- I'm only speaking for myself, but not for anybody else !
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