Kevin:

With release 5.5 of MPE/iX, HP has provided several new predefined
variables, one of which will provide you with the client's IP address.  I'm
not sure off the top of my head what the name of the variable is, but a
SHOWVAR HP@ should do the trick.  I haven't used telnet with HP3000 systems
as servers, but I assume the IP address is recorded just as with VT
sessions.

I suppose you could write the IP address of a client to a file at logon, and
then delete the same from a file at logout.  You could check this file  when
a client logs on, looking for a duplicate.  I think you could do all this
from a logon UDC using the CI.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

John Testa
Wesley-Jessen Corporation
Des Plaines, IL


Kevin O'Sullivan wrote in message <[log in to unmask]>...
>Hi all,
>since we've started to allow telnet sessions to our HP3000, our licence
limit of
>160 concurrent users is regularly being reached.
>
>With HP wanting about 20,000 sterling to increase the licence to 256
concurrent,
>I'm having to look at different ways to regulate multi-logons.
>
>I have bouncer running and aborting sessions after periods of inactivity,
but I
>think the way forward is to refuse a login if there are already two
sessions
>active at the same workstation, for example.
>
>What I need is to be able to get the IP address of the workstation from
within
>MPE.
>
>I could just look up the session,username.account in a showjob and use that
as a
>reference, but we have some people that sign more than one terminal
>legitimately.
>
>We run the Reflection software from WRQ as our telnet/comms software.
>
>Any help on this problem would be most appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance,
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