From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 8 11:50:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [212.66.1.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E77337B400 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 11:50:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g08JoYN39305; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 20:50:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 20:50:34 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200201081950.g08JoYN39305@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Detecting IP addresses on ONE system. In-Reply-To: X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions User-Agent: tin/1.5.4-20000523 ("1959") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.4-RELEASE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Emmerton 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 -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message