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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