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Subject: Re: What's in a (device) name?
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joerg@britannica.bec.de wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 09:47:41AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
>> In <20060410074740.GD1006@britannica.bec.de>, joerg@britannica.bec.de typed:
>>> On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 10:47:53PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
>>>> Firewire would seem to be a lot like USB - hot pluggable and
>>>> chainable, though I'm not sure if something like a firewire hub. What
>>>> does it to do wire down device addresses?
>>> FireWire devices have uuids, you can simply enumerate them using those
>>> :-)
>> Where do those come from? Assigned by the user? Dynamically by the
>> controller? By the manufacturer?
> 
> IIRC by the manufacturer, like MAC addresses.

I think you mean the 64-bit EUI?