Re: Identification

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, David Conrad wrote:

> However, if they only burned the lower 64 bits of an IPv6 address into
> their chips as permanent identifiers, there is no issue provided those
> identifiers are globally unique.

Even assuming they come out of the factory with unique addresses
(I've heard stories from people getting 5 cards all with the same
address) how long is this going to stay unique after my little brother
types "man ifconfig"?

Sure, it's possible to repair all these problems, but why exactly were
we doing this in the first place again...? Hardware addresses make bad
identifiers. Just give me 64 bytes of NVRAM so I can burn in the
identifier of my choice.