From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 9 16:40:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 393EC16A4F5; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 16:40:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@freebsd.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B15A443D46; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 16:40:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (wm.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01CA7291AFC; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:40:50 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 13027-07; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 16:40:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-224-179-167.eastlink.ca [24.224.179.167]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52927290C20; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:40:49 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1027) id C74EB5D2AE; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:40:49 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C65615CF5C; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:40:49 -0300 (ADT) Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:40:49 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" X-X-Sender: freebsd@ganymede.hub.org To: Howard Jones In-Reply-To: <44DA0DDF.40300@thingy.com> Message-ID: <20060809134007.U7522@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060807003815.C7522@ganymede.hub.org> <20060808102819.GB64879@augusta.de> <20060808153921.V7522@ganymede.hub.org> <44D8EC98.8020801@utdallas.edu> <20060808201359.S7522@ganymede.hub.org> <44D91F02.90107@mawer.org> <20060808212719.L7522@ganymede.hub.org> <20060809072313.GA19441@sysadm.stc> <20060809105404.GC19441@sysadm.stc> <44DA0715.1020507@utdallas.edu> <20060809130634.S7522@ganymede.hub.org> <44DA0DDF.40300@thingy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:40:52 -0000 On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Howard Jones wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >> The uniqueness is a combination of IP+hostname ... again, as one pointed >> out with PCBSD, this isn't always necessarily the case, but, IMHO, that >> is a flaw of PCBSD having all hosts on the same network using the same >> hostname ... > > That's the nice thing with the 'ifconfig|sha256' scheme. Because it > would include the MAC address of the interfaces in the hash, the only > 'identical' machines would be ones with no ethernet interfaces at all. Right, and the bad thing is if yu alias another IP on that device, the hash totally changes, so we see that one host now as being two different ones :) That's why we disqualified using ifconfig right at the beginning ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664