According to Achim Dreyer:
>
>Be carefull when changing the mac address in eeprom as (at least on old
>machines) the hostid consists at least partly of the primary mac address
>on the system board.
>

Well, by default they are related but I don't believe that the hostid
is generated based on the mac address.

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, BAE SYSTEMS
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