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Subject: Re: unique hardware identification
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In message: <20070128181132.GR927@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
            Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> writes:
: On Sun, 2007-Jan-28 10:39:36 -0600, Jon Passki wrote:
: >If the machine is a PXE-compliant device [2], it should have a GUID/ 
: >UUID [1] available.  This can be exposed by sysutil/hal [3] via the  
: >smbios.system.uuid field.
: 
: You can also get it via kenv(8) without needing any ports:
: # kenv smbios.system.uuid
: 9F345F4F-BEFC-D431-1340-61235A56DEF9

I wonder why the smbios stuff isn't exported via sysctls as well...

Warner