strange tcpip problem: SOLVED!!

[drake at drake.almaden.ibm.com]

In article <676836895.5438 at mindcraft.com> karish at mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish) writes:
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>Record the cards' Ethernet ID numbers, and query them at boot time?

That's another obvious approach ... which leads to similar surprises as
the slot-based method.  With the Ethernet-ID approach you can indeed move
the cards around from slot to slot, but you can't replace a broken card
with a new card without reconfiguring the software.  


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