"Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm currently re-working the statistics page/sql queries. > > I need some way to uniquely identify each ASSP install in order for the > stats to be at least somewhat valid, the IP address would be the easiest > and quickest way to do this but it would cause inconsistencies if > there are multiple installs on the same public IP. > > So tell me. > Do you have multiple ASSP servers on the same public ip? > Is this something I should worry about?
I don't expect you will find several (if any) installations of ASSP on the same IP. I would expect any multiple installations all to be running on separate to be using multi-homed adapters. Would you be retrieving the IP from the packet upload, or are you expecting to have the IP address in the actual data payload? If you are looking to extract the IP address from the uploads, I can definitely anticipate problems with admins who are using multi-homed machines, as they would all seem to be coming from the same IP. However, that being said, I can anticipate privacy concerns with stats being associated with specific IPs. Especially in the world of Spam, the last thing admins would want is having knowledge about the efficiency (or inefficiency) of your email to accept/reject spam. A different approach / suggestion would be to have a GUID per installation - ie: gets created upon installation of ASSP. The catch would be to make sure that when duplicating ASSP installations that the GUID is not retained (the user would have to know/remember to delete it from the cfg file before launching the new install). I did a quick search on the net for a GUID module for Perl, but couldn't find anything that seemed appropriate. So I'm not entirely sure the best way to come up with one, but I'm thinking that maybe the timestamp combined with a random number seeded with the machine's MAC could be unique enough for this? Apparently there is a Net-MAC module for Perl that gives you access to the MAC (haven't tried it yet - just saw it on CPAN). My 2cents, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list Assp-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
