The intel CPUID instruction was designed with the idea of providing a serial
no. for cpu's, however it's easily to get hold of even when it's switched
off. It's present in P2's later than the 266 Klamath and (IIRC) on all P2
Notebooks. It's also present on all PIII's and looks like there's no sign of
it going. For this reason, I'll never buy an intel processor until they stop
making them like that.
For more information on the CPUID issue, check out
http://www.heise.de/ct/english/99/05/news1/ and
http://www.privacy.org/bigbrotherinside/
Steve Lord, Project Leader
Guven Linux
Guven Linux at 0.03rc2
P.S - This may qualify as my most informative post ever made. I'll try to be
less clever in future ;)
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Fahrner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 28 June 2000 16:05
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Riku Meskanen; Rick Parker; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: [Redhat-devel-list] How do I change the hostid for a
Linuxsystem?
Yes, but it was generally considered evil for privacy reasons and is
often disabled. It also is only in the newer chipsets so you couldn't
guarantee it to be consistently available.
- Matt
Steve Bagdon wrote:
>
> Didn't Intel have a solution that's built-into the cpu chip?
>
> Steve B.
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> Riku Meskanen wrote:
>
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Rick Parker wrote:
>
> > How would I change the hostid for a Linux system?
> >
> For single process or completely? There is a solution
> attached for both, or change ethernet card :)
>
> > Do you know if it is the same with a SUN system?
> >
> Gosh I dont remember how to do it offially with
> SUN, but as an ELF system I would expect that
> attached tools work fine.
>
> :-) riku
>
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