[WinMac] Grab an IP address [WAS:Re: Dave's Dreadful Documents]

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Tue, 20 Apr 1999 16:55:09 -0500

        Philip:

        You can always go to a windoze 95 box and get its IP address;
and then try to connect to the LAN using other address' in the
subnet. If the address is already in use, then Open Transport will
not connect...
        Cheers!
        Dan

At 02:22 PM 4/20/99 -0500, Philip wrote:

>The only problem that I am having is with one client who doesn't have an
>resident NT network admin. The never available outsourced person refuses
>to tell me the IP address since he thinks that I don't need the info.
>Since they aren't using the DHCP (dynamic ???? something or other) but
>TCP/IP, I need the IP address to enter into the TCP/IP control panel to
>connect via Dave. What is so secret about the IP address I'll never know
>....

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