Rarpd problems under 4.1

[henry at zoo.toronto.edu]

>Are you aware that when you have two ethernet controllers in a Sun
>backplane that they have the same 48-bit ethernet address? ...  Sun
>evidently figured that the only use for two ethernet controllers was to
>act as a bridge between two completely separate LANs...

In fact, the original intent of Ethernet addresses was that they were to
be *host* numbers, so naturally all interfaces on one host have the same
address.  This intent has kind of gotten lost, along with the XNS
higher-level protocols that exploited this property.

                                         Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
                                          henry at zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry