installing new ethernet address equipment with VMS 6.1

On Tue, October 25, 2005 8:37 am, Rinaldo.Eversdijk at stork.com said: I don't understand what you're trying to achieve here. The Ethernet address is that device's unique world wide identifier so no two ethernet devices have the same address, well, back in the days of the kit you're talking about that was definitely true. If a piece of your equipment dies you put another one in and VMS doesn't care a bit. Your terminal servers are only managed by ethernet address (in that you can connect to it via NCP using the ethernet address), the VXT doesn't care either. Both the DECservers and the VXT are client devices and talk to the VAX using LAT or IP (DS250 is LAT only). LAT doesn't care about the ethernet address other than to use it as a destination for ethernet packets. I thought it was part of the ethernet spec that the hardware address couldn't be changed unless you're running a VMScluster. cheers -- adrian/witchy Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UKs biggest home computer collection?