Re: Unique identification of a computer

[Oren Amit]

What wrong with gethostid() ?

Rony Shapiro wrote:

In commercial systems, the MAC address of the Ethernet NIC is considered
a unique identifier of the computer.
Assuming that the machine has a NIC, of course.

	Rony

 

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On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:04:01AM +0200, David Sapir wrote:
   

Hi,
When I read from /proc/ide/ide0/hda/identify : is it a 
     

unique number? 
   

Is
this the unique ID of the hard disk?
     

If the computer has such a disk. What about all-scsi system?

If the disk is replaced?

If the disk is moved to a different system?

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