[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Rop

I still have a little bit of a puzzle with spiders though: About an hour ago 6 Slurp spiders were showing on my board. They were all from different IPs. Yet the guest stats show that only 3 Slurp spiders have visited in the past 24 hours. So, is this because vBulletin classifies some of these (despite the unique IPs) as 'the same' guest? No way around this I suppose?

Actually, what is happening is that the slurp spiders are from a similar subset of ips - e.g. 74.6.71.x

By default, vbulletin builds the unique id using just the first three bits of the ip address - so 74.6.71.1 will be seen the same as 74.6.71.2, 74.6.71.3 etc. You can change this in the vBulletin Options > Server Settings and Optimization Options > Session IP Octet Length Check - change it from '255.255.255.0' to '255.255.255.255' and vb (and hence this mod) will see them all as unique.

I think I might add my own option for this in the next update, or maybe just build the guest id seperately from vb so that setting does not cause a problem.