As Matthew Jacob wrote ... > > > On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > As Matthew Jacob wrote ... > > > > > > Yes, you want the WWN to stay constant. That doesn't mean it should > > > necessarily be the same physical box. Nor does it mean it should be a > > > system that comes with a WWN assigned to by the manufacturer. > > > > Manufacturers have to register and 'get' a unique range they can assign > > to their products. How do you guarantee that your homegrown WWN is > > really unique? > > Witha a value in the top 4 bits that's not one of the currently defined > authoritative values.
Not waterproof, at least to WW unique. What stops me from inventing exactly the same WWN as you do for your machine? Playing the devils (daemon's?) advocate, I admit.. > > > And to boot a Sun over fibre channel, you use the WWN. > > > > Well, we currently don't support that, but indeed that is what you would > > do. Tru64 Unix does something similar. > > > You can boot off of fibre channel now- but not using a WWN. Well, "we" is Compaq using a HSG80 FC raidbox on a Sun with a Jaycor adapter in the Sun. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
