[Info-vax] virtual consoles

[P. Sture]

In article <hbk91h$61m$1 at news.belwue.de>,
 gartmann at nonsense.immunbio.mpg.de (Christoph Gartmann) wrote:

> In article <paul.nospam-6DF7E3.13115220102009 at pbook.sture.ch>, "P. Sture" 
> <paul.nospam at sture.ch> writes:

> >There's another angle to that one.  If you replace your terminal server 
> >with a spare, your host server may reject upload requests from it.  On 
> >some (all?) models, you can transfer a chip containing the MAC address 
> >to the new unit; otherwise you have to modify your host server settings 
> >to allow the unit to access the server (via MOP or LANCP on a VMS 
> >system).
> 
> But this is not a big deal. Simply add both MAC addresses into your MOP or
> LANCP database.
> 

Agreed that it's not a big deal if you are prepared for it.  But it's 
there to catch you out if you don't know about it.

-- 
Paul Sture