Ethernet question

[Randal Schwartz]

In article <23877 at adm.BRL.MIL>, terry at cssun (Terry Escamilla) writes:
| Is it possible for a workstation on an Ethernet to dynamically
| determine the Internet (or even Ethernet) addresses of the
| hosts/workstations immediately to its left and right?  
| I guess this would be like an "intelligent" ping or ARP.

Ethernet is flat.  (Well, OK, the cable is round. :-) Your broadcasts
are flooded to every reciever on the cable.  There's no left or right
in electron space.

Just another cybernetic hallucination,
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