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a note of caution
This is a really useful hint, and one that I've been waiting on for a long time! BUT.. a note of caution: that file also contains your hardware address (in an Appletalk field buried in there somewhere). I don't know what would happen if you transferred this file to a new machine which used both a modem connection AND was hooked up to the internet (my iBook is hooked into the internet at work, but to the modem at home)... some (maybe even all?) local networks require the computer's hardware address for the purposes of assigning an IP number. I know almost nothing about this. I just know that I have to find this number for each new machine I get, and pass it on to the network people before I get given an IP number for the new machine. Anyone have any information on this? Maybe it doesn't matter, or maybe the system somehow overwrites the hardware information dynamically (after all, it had to get into that file in the first place..). Just my tuppence worth (a quaint British expression..!).
Re: a note of caution
[I]some (maybe even all?) local networks require the computer's hardware address for the purposes of assigning an IP number. I know almost nothing about this. I just know that I have to find this number for each new machine I get, and pass it on to the network people before I get given an IP number for the new machine. [/I] |
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