On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Gino LV. Ledesma wrote:
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> So I take it that each computer would have a unique MAC addresses. If so, I
> guess storing them in a small database is all there is left to do. The
> reason for my asking is that we would like to find out what particular users
> are using which IP addresses should people have IP conflicts.
ehrm.. yes, you can do that. but why bother? use DHCP and all will be
well..
as an aside, both Solaris and IRIX have GUI tools that pop up a notify box
if the IP the machine is using is being used by another machine (something
like "the machine with MAC address xx:yy:zz:aa:bb has a conflicting IP
address with this machine").
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