heh. i notice that. i guess DAK's opinion was not so humble. :) it provided me absolutely zero useful information. oh well..ya live ya learn. i dont suppose there are any good sockets programming primers are there? i bought a TCP/IP in 21 days book. never got around to reading it tho. i suppose i should. thanks anyway guys. appreciate the help. bill George wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Invincibill wrote: > > >thanks, i was thinking it would help me keep track of people who were > >definately multiplaying. what with all the ip spoofing and ip > >masquerading from the linux boxes and the firewalls and proxy servers, > >its easy for two people to have the same IP address and still be playing > >separate characters. however, if they both have the same port number, > >i'm pretty sure thats an undeniable flag that somebody is multiplaying. > > The port wouldn't be the same even if they were using the same client for > both connections. > > -- > George Greer > greerga@circlemud.org > http://www.van.ml.org/CircleMUD/ > > +------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | > | http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | > +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- reply to bill<@>longboys.net(remove the<>) ...spam avoidance policy in effect. check out www.giftsgalore.com, lots 'o neat stuff there. Happy New Year +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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