From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 16 21:30: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F7CE14F24 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:30:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA19485; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 15:59:43 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id PAA70283; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 15:59:42 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990317155941.D429@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 15:59:41 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Brett Glass , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , The Hermit Hacker Cc: Mark Ovens , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel PIII "Anti Piracy Feature"? References: <19990317124102.R429@lemis.com> <4.1.19990316220756.00cc2340@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990316220756.00cc2340@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 10:08:23PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Tuesday, 16 March 1999 at 22:08:23 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 12:41 PM 3/17/99 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 16 March 1999 at 22:35:27 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >>> The Hermit Hacker writes: >>>> themis:/var/log> hostid >>>> 1ff199af >>> >>> Hmm, what's that box's IP address? >> >> Not 0xaf.0x99.0xf1.0x1f, anyway: >> >> $ traceroute 0xaf.0x99.0xf1.0x1f >> traceroute to 0xaf.0x99.0xf1.0x1f (175.153.241.31), 30 hops max, 40 byte >> packets >> 1 Cont0.way3.Adelaide.telstra.net (139.130.136.129) 132.367 ms 109.295 ms 114.168 ms >> 2 Ethernet1-0.way1.Adelaide.telstra.net (139.130.237.65) 115.007 ms 103.010 ms 112.564 ms >> 3 Fddi0-0.way-core2.Adelaide.telstra.net (139.130.237.229) 113.457 ms 107.387 ms 110.893 ms >> 4 Atm1-0-1.lon-core1.Melbourne.telstra.net (203.50.6.5) 182.921 ms 175.501 ms 173.186 ms >> 5 Fddi0-0.lon5.Melbourne.telstra.net (139.130.239.231) 180.808 ms 172.435 ms 181.950 ms >> 6 * * * >> 7 * *^C >> >> This is a pretty clear indication that the packets are falling off the >> end of the world. > > No, no.... The ID is a MAC address, not an IP address. Ethernet addresses are 48 bits long. You'll also note DES's original question. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message