> On another note, I have heard the argument that a unique identifier already > exists in the form of a MAC address why not make further use of it? I can remember early TCP/IP implementations that used class A addressing only, with the host portion of the Enet MAC address as the host portion of the IP address - "because ARP is too hard" or something like that. I think the first Suns did this. -- Dick St.Peters, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gatekeeper, NetHeaven, Saratoga Springs, NY Saratoga/Albany/Amsterdam/BoltonLanding/Cobleskill/Greenwich/ GlensFalls/LakePlacid/NorthCreek/Plattsburgh/... Oldest Internet service based in the Adirondack-Albany region
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