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Date:      Tue, 8 Jan 2002 20:50:34 +0100 (CET)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Detecting IP addresses on ONE system.
Message-ID:  <200201081950.g08JoYN39305@lurza.secnetix.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0201081344510.64022-100000@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>

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Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> wrote:
 > If you're on the same LAN as this system, arp will tell you the MAC
 > address associated with each IP.  If the MAC addresses are the same, then
 > they IPs are on the same card (hence same system).

Yes, but the reverse isn't true, so this doesn't help much.
If the MACs are different, it can still be the same system.

Regards
   Oliver

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