The clientconnects to the serverusing amachineaddressandport number. The client can be on any machine with network access to the machine running the server.
But Mr Clayton said the recent row over search data released by AOL showed that identification of users could still be made even without a machine's unique IP address.
My "luk" was not "werking" as ghosts in the machine mysteriously wiped out the MAC address on the USB HomePlug adapter in the unit I tried, and the HomePlug bridge that I normally use had some compatibility issues.