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

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

Why not just add in the patch in kern/65627 and run the CPU serial number
through
your hash?

Ted

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "User Freebsd" <freebsd at hub.org>
To: "Robert Huff" <roberthuff at rcn.com>
Cc: "Xiao-Yong Jin" <xj2106 at columbia.edu>; "Nikolas Britton"
<nikolas.britton at gmail.com>; <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?


> 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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