Ethernet question

Terry Escamilla terry at cssun.tamu.edu
Sat Jul 14 14:02:42 AEST 1990


Someone please settle an argument we've been having at work.

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.

Terry Escamilla
terry at cs.tamu.edu



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