Hello there,
    I did not know which specific newsgroup to post this to so I aplogise if
it is in an inappropriate one :)

    We are writing a program that tracks users IP addresses and stores them
into a database, now what I would like to know is are all IP addresses
unique, or are they repeated?

    Also we are using the Winsock for connection to a server, we know about
doing multi-connections {thanx to the WinApi group} but there seems to be a
limit on the number of connections. Is there anyway around this? I mean ICQ
and such programs must over come this limitation, anyone know how?

    Hope you can help :))
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Thank you for your time
Anthoni Gardner
Born2Code Software
http://www.*-*-*.com/

They are unique unless they are in the ranges reserved for LANs (which
are?  I only know 2 of them by heart 10.x.x.x and 192.168.x.x). And even
then, they need to have a Gateway to the net that has a unique
IP.  (Chances are, everybody coming from a single gateway will look the
same, depending upon your method of figureing out the IP address).

Far better (but perhaps less legal) would be to use the MAC address, which
is globally unique.

Ted

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