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Date:      Wed, 17 Mar 1999 15:59:41 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Intel PIII "Anti Piracy Feature"?
Message-ID:  <19990317155941.D429@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990316220756.00cc2340@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 10:08:23PM -0700
References:  <xzpn21dkti8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903161259420.19918-100000@thelab.hub.org> <xzpn21dkti8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <19990317124102.R429@lemis.com> <4.1.19990316220756.00cc2340@localhost>

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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 <scrappy@hub.org> 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
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