On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 02:15:41AM -0400, Derek Martin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Since engineers are obviously completely untrustworthy, how do you prevent
> > them from bring their own laptop in and hooking it up to that same ethernet?
>
> What, you didn't think we'd have an answer? Statically assigned IP
> addresses via DHCP based on MAC addresses.
>
> What's that? Unrealistic you say? WE'RE DOING IT. RIGHT NOW.
>
> No MAC address? No network resources. Period.
So couldn't I remove that network card and use it in my own
machine? There's *always* a way; the goal is really to make it too
hard to be reasonable, right?
--
Bob Bell Compaq Computer Corporation
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TruCluster Group Nashua, NH 03062-2698
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