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Re: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue Aug 27 17:57:09 2002

To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:48:24 EDT."
             <200208272148.g7RLmOwQ009122@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> 
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:56:43 -0400
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On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:48:24 EDT, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu said:

> (I'm assuming you mean in the same sense as "you can identify a machine's
> vendor based on the EUI-64..." - neither a portscan or a MAC address will
> tell you who's machine it is, as far as I know (although doing an nmap to find
> ports that will tell you who it is... hmm... ;)

And yes, I realized after I hit send that a MAC address can be correlated
to "the same guy as last time" or "different guy", although other means still
need to be used to identify *who* "the same guy" is.... ;)

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