Hi, For billing and licensing reasons in our product, I need to be able to identify machines when they connect to our server... The issue that we have is that these machines may be behind a NAT firewall and we dont see the real IP of the machine... Is there any way at all to identify a socket connection as belonging to a certain machine other than just IP address? For example, would I be able to look at the TCP packets acknowledge numbers and that in combo with the IP would give me some idea of the machines behind the NAT? Thanks Lyle -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup "Free price comparison tool gives you the best prices and cash back!" http://www.bestbuyfinder.com/download.htm - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html