Re: How to survive in a Micro$oft environment??

From: Werner Almesberger (almesber@lrc.epfl.ch)
Date: Sun Feb 27 2000 - 13:39:28 EST

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Dominik Kubla wrote:
> Another strategy would be to ARP for the addresses. If the HW address
> is different from the gateway, the address is local and may be queried.
> Still assuming a lot, but hopefully not hitting any foreign addresses.
> Or am i missing something obvious?

There are those misguided souls who build huge "dumb" bridged networks ...
IMHO, unsolicited brute-force scanning anything beyond a few dozen
addresses is unacceptable.

- Werner

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