Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

[User Freebsd]

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Robert Huff wrote:

> User Freebsd writes:
>>  Actually, using ifconfig wouldn't work ... it would give unique, but as
>>  soon as you add another IP (ie. alias), the ID would change ... you'd need
>>  to do something like:
>>
>>  ifconfig | grep ether | sha256 | md5
>>
>>  since the 'ether' would never change ...
>
> 	At least some cards (+ FreeBSD drivers) allow you to set the
> MAC address ....

Man, we definitely don't make a unique host id an easy thing to 
accomplish, do we? :)

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