Re: Identification

[Peter Tattam <peter@jazz-1.trumpet.com.au>]

As long as they are unique enough within a site, I can't see a problem.  All
you want is to not be mistaken for someone else in the quagmire of the internet
soup.  A site is a pretty good approximation.  The GUID is only a few more bits
of uniqueness.

Peter

P.S.  waiting for Jim's beer server to arrive on the back doorstep.  We had a
30 degrees celsius day here :)

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
> 

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Peter R. Tattam                            peter@trumpet.com
Managing Director,    Trumpet Software International Pty Ltd
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