Your comment is very interesting for me because we are VERY interested
in network security.
I would like to know how user department thinks they can maintain
security by using the IP address, because we haven't found a way.

Any Win95 user, for example, can simply go into control panel/Network
and change their IP address to yours.  It's much easier to steal than
your password!

Besides that, there is such a shortage of IP addresses in the world we
(along with many other TCP/IP users) will be switching to DHCP shortly.
(Which is a way of obtaining your IP address dynamically when you boot
from a network pool of available addresses, so every machine doesn't
have to have its own).



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>From:  Melinda Varian[SMTP:MAINT%PUCC.BITNET AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]
>Sent:  Tuesday, November 26, 1996 11:13 AM
>To:    Multiple recipients of list ADSM-L
>Subject:       ADSM's lack of knowledge of IP addresses
>
>Twice this week, I've had a user department tell me that they will stop
>using ADSM because it allows a restore to be done to a machine at an IP
>address other than the one used when the client was registered.  They
>feel that password protection is not sufficient, but that the combination
>of password and IP address would be adequate.
>
>I have been pleading for years for ADSM to record the IP address used
>when the client registers and to report the IP address each time a client
>connects.
>
>To that I now add a plea (optionally) to limit access to a specific IP
>address for each node.  And, obviously, the administrator would need
>the ability to change the IP address for a node, as well as to
>enable/disable the restriction globally and by node.
>
>Melinda Varian,
>Princeton University
>