Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 12:51:23 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "User Freebsd" <freebsd@hub.org>, "Robert Huff" <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: Xiao-Yong Jin <xj2106@columbia.edu>, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there? Message-ID: <002401c6b5a3$de991970$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> 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><ef10de9a0608010121j154c7ael7ece0997a479572e@mail.gmail.com><20060801120058.O27679@ganymede.hub.org><17615.30414.314802.792740@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20060801131123.Y27679@ganymede.hub.org>
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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@hub.org> To: "Robert Huff" <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: "Xiao-Yong Jin" <xj2106@columbia.edu>; "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>; <freebsd-questions@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? :) > > ---- > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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