Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry 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 Article-I.D.: utzoo.3566 Posted: Mon Feb 20 20:20:15 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Feb-84 20:20:15 EST References: <6933@mgweed.UUCP> <1704@rlgvax.UUCP>, <6971@mgweed.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 12 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. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry