On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 11:21:09AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Mark Brown writes: > > ...NIS needs to hand out the IP address of the machine... > Machines don't have IP numbers. Interfaces have IP numbers. Every machine Actually, that's not quite the case (as a number of users of Linux's ARP implementation have found), though it's a good approximation. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."