[mod.protocols.tcp-ip] new node init procedures

JOHNSON@NUHUB.ACS.NORTHEASTERN.EDU.UUCP (01/16/87)

     Hi!.

     I'm a novice with tcp/ip and Sun systems and UNIX.  Receiving roled
in a Sun 3/180 the other day.  Our Comp Sci department has a number of 
UNIX systems on various machines all talking on an ethernet.

     The systems person at Comp Sci said he had to tell all his UNIX 
machines the ip net address I am giving my Sun before they will all 
babble relatively understandably at each other.

     Is this really true?  Is there no "hello I'm me" packet at the ip 
level such that I could just plug my Sun into the ether and have tcp/ip 
work?

Chris Johnson
Northeastern University

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