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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.info-terms,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: How do *you* identify terminals?
Message-ID: <3566@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Feb-84 20:20:15 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 20 20:20:15 1984
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About all you can do is to flame at the people who sold you your
network/frontend/concentrator about not giving your machine a way
to find out who's connected to what.  The software inside the magic
boxes definitely knows what connections exist; if you could convince
it to tell you, you could get as far as knowing which terminal cable
a given login was from.  Given some bookkeeping on which terminals
are where, this would solve the problem.  But of course, the stupid
boxes won't talk.  This is plain old brain-damaged software, and it
should be treated as such.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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