Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:01:52 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse <chris@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there? Message-ID: <44CE7DD0.9070902@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <44CDE02F.4090604@dial.pipex.com> References: <20060728164526.E27679@ganymede.hub.org> <df9ac37c0607281319s5da0f64ese5fa57df1ef11a4d@mail.gmail.com> <ef10de9a0607282139i51fdde5ch58525fa3347364d2@mail.gmail.com> <87slklj9hu.fsf@photon.homelinux.org> <20060729021007.F27679@ganymede.hub.org> <44CD41EC.6030605@freebsd.org> <20060730233839.I27679@ganymede.hub.org> <44CDAA98.3030702@freebsd.org> <44CDE02F.4090604@dial.pipex.com>
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Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Colin Percival wrote: > >> > Counting portsnap and cvsup accesses is non-intrusive - i.e. nothing > sent from local host - will count systems from any version of FreeBSD, > but will never count everything because sites with multiple hosts may > easily have local propagation mechanisms. But you will get an order of > magnitude. However, how do you deal with systems with variable IPs? I > don't know enough about the internals of either portsnap or cvsup to > know if there is some kind of unique id associated with hosts. If not, > then you'd wildly over count for many home-based, variable IP systems. Maybe not so many, my non-static ip hasn't changed since I signed up 3 years ago despite turning off the modem for the odd day or two. Another network I look after also hasn't changed in a year. Chris
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