Greetings!
...and you'd end up with a database/list of MAC addresses on
your network.
If you're really paranoid, you can also reserve ip addresses
based on the hardware address...
On 15 Aug 00, at 11:29, Orlando Andico wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Gino LV. Ledesma wrote:
> ..
> > 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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