From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 5 13: 0:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kobold.compt.com (TBextgw.compt.com [209.115.146.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8370937B405 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 13:00:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 16:00:23 -0500 From: Klaus Steden To: John Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Duplicate localhost IP's on a network ? Message-ID: <20011105160023.X691@cthulu.compt.com> References: <002101c1663b$c61e9080$0a00000a@johnny2k> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002101c1663b$c61e9080$0a00000a@johnny2k>; from j.telford@sympatico.ca on Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 03:52:25PM -0500 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 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