Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 16:00:23 -0500 From: Klaus Steden <klaus@compt.com> To: John <j.telford@sympatico.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Duplicate localhost IP's on a network ? Message-ID: <20011105160023.X691@cthulu.compt.com> In-Reply-To: <002101c1663b$c61e9080$0a00000a@johnny2k>; from j.telford@sympatico.ca on Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 03:52:25PM -0500 References: <002101c1663b$c61e9080$0a00000a@johnny2k>
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A good start is to look for the MAC prefix in a list of vendor codes which should help narrow down what -kind- of machine is using the same address. MAC prefixes are unique to the particular vendor - the first three bytes (? - the first six numbers anyway) are vendor-specific. Here's a good table of vendor prefixes ... http://www.netsys.com/macaddr.html hope this helps, Klaus To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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