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		there on March 7, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stakeout: how the FBI tracked and busted a Chicago... ARP packets would not show Tor server IPs, they would only show the IPs of his laptop and his router.

jwegan on March 7, 2012 [–]

To add more detail, the reason is would not show the IP of the Tor servers is because you only send ARP requests for IPs on your same subnet. If the IP is not on your subnet there is no reason to send an ARP because you already know you cannot talk to it directly.

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