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- From: matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Ethernet id
- Message-ID: <17108@umd5.umd.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 00:18:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.142120.25191@cyantic.com> mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld) writes:
- >Anyway, here's another possibility. In NetManager, there is a field for
- >storing the ethernet address. Once it has been entered there, it will show
- >up in the NetInfo tables. Of course, this all depends on getting the
- >address in the first place, but having it in NetInfo isn't a bad idea for
- >general network management.
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- It's also a necessity if you wish to do netbooting (and I'm pretty sure for
- automatic IP address configuration too, but my memory on that is a little
- muddy).
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- To get to it, all it takes is an niutil -read <domain> /machines/<machine>
- and you're all set.
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- >Mark T. Dornfeld
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