IP addresses for embedded device with ethernet

Steve Calfee wrote:
...
> It is a shame that there is no universal server finding technique, but
> the original arpanet had everyone with a fixed IP and passed around a
> hosts.allow file with everyone on the arpanet named. This technique
> worked for awhile, but is not scalable and of course windows is not
> compatible with it!
...

I am not recommending it's use but Windows does still support a host
file.

In Win2K it is in C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

kevin