From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 1 16:11:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B0FB16A4DF for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 16:11:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F9CF43D6E for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 16:11:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 182D8291B02; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 13:11:43 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 63426-05; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 13:11:43 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-224-179-167.eastlink.ca [24.224.179.167]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BB6E291AFC; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 13:11:42 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1027) id 5762D5CA2F; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 13:11:42 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55E8E4A3D1; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 13:11:42 -0300 (ADT) Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 13:11:42 -0300 (ADT) From: User Freebsd To: Robert Huff In-Reply-To: <17615.30414.314802.792740@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Message-ID: <20060801131123.Y27679@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060728164526.E27679@ganymede.hub.org> <87slklj9hu.fsf@photon.homelinux.org> <20060729021007.F27679@ganymede.hub.org> <44CD41EC.6030605@freebsd.org> <20060730233839.I27679@ganymede.hub.org> <44CDAA98.3030702@freebsd.org> <44CDE02F.4090604@dial.pipex.com> <44CE7DD0.9070902@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> <871ws1v261.fsf@photon.homelinux.org> <20060731220830.B27679@ganymede.hub.org> <20060801120058.O27679@ganymede.hub.org> <17615.30414.314802.792740@jerusalem.litteratus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Xiao-Yong Jin , Nikolas Britton , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:11:53 -0000 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? :) ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664