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Re: brad w. Re: Ethernet & Internet on Apple 2

Subject: Re: brad w. Re: Ethernet & Internet on Apple 2
From: Ed Eastman <noone@nowhere.net>
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 07:34:04 -0500
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Why not have the 'master' IIe or the msg server IIe assign numbers uponrequest. Make the request part of the initialization or Boot process.(Sorry, random thoughts.)

Thankx,
Ed

Michael J. Mahon wrote:
They boot over the network from the "master" machine,
...
The latest protocol addition was the network boot protocol,
 required to use machines that have no attached peripherals.
It currently works perfectly with two or three slaves, but
with a larger number (six), I have found that my original
idea for generating a (really) random ID at power-up is not
as random as I hoped.

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