>>>>> "Russ" == Russ White <ru...@riw.us> writes:
Russ> You need a unique identifier at the equipment level for
Russ> anything you intend to auto-configure --autoconfiguring
Russ> uniqueness is a very hard, probably impossible, problem on a
Russ> global scale. So we need to count on this one thing, no matter
Russ> what else we might need to back in to.
Russ> Now, it might be possible to some hash over a GPS location for
Russ> a "base," and then add on MAC addresses, or some such, but
We've assumed a unique MAC, which is 48 bits long.
But OSPF router-id is 32 bits. What is the likelyhood of a collision
in the bottom 32-bits of the MAC?
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