Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: devfs patch v3 | Date | Mon, 12 Jan 1998 12:09:02 +0000 | From | David Woodhouse <> |
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shirsch@ibm.net said: > > If you have an Ethernet card, (and the manufacturer of the Ethernet > card > was competent about assigning Ethernet addresses --- some weren't, > unfortuantely), the guarantees on the uniqueness of UUID's is much > more > than statistical, actually.
> On boxes that do not have unique machine ID's (e.g. Digital Unix on > Alpha), the FlexLM license manager uses the ethernet address in lieu > of the serial number. Have you actually ever encountered a duplicate > enet id?
We've got five of 00:80:C8:00:00:00 on our College subnet alone. I think they came with unique addresses, but they forget them as soon as you run the setup program that came with the card, and revert to 00:00:00 :)
They're D-Link DE220 cards, I think.
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