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Date:      Sat, 24 Mar 2018 17:47:56 +0000
From:      Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie@catflap.org>
To:        rfg@tristatelogic.com, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Same host or different? How can you tell "over the wire"?
Message-ID:  <201803241747.w2OHlupR069759@donotpassgo.dyslexicfish.net>
In-Reply-To: <10556.1521752491@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
References:  <10556.1521752491@segfault.tristatelogic.com>

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Have you thought of examining the TCP timestamp field? Not necessarily for accurate uptime, but a way to determine if the hosts are the same.

Or some of the other fingerprinting methods? nmap has options for uptime and other fingerprinting : https://nmap.org/book/osdetect-usage.html

Of course, all this assumes the hosts are connected directly without any load balancing or some sort of firewall/proxy that fiddles with the packet data...

cheers, Jamie



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