DecNet-Ultrix / TCP-IP incompatability?

[Johan Vromans]

In article <25E5C914.26964 at orion.oac.uci.edu> meggers at orion.oac.uci.edu (mark eggers) writes:

: DECnet changes your Ethernet hardware address (sigh - what a
: stupid thing to do), but then IP starts up and uses the new Ethernet
: hardware address.

Does anyone know why DECnet changes the hardware address?

Johan
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