Wizard-level questions

[Jeff Hollingsworth]

|> Actually, only the network part of the info is truly reliable.
|> Someone with a PC could wait until a well known trusted host
|> is down for backups or maintenance or whatever, claim to be it,
|> and the only way the rest of the net would know is if they cared
|> about the ARP mapping between ethernet address and IP address.
|> -- 
|> 

Many/most Ethernet boards let you set their address too, so you can't even
trust that information.  The only answer is to use an authentication system
like Kerberos.

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