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Date:      Wed, 25 Sep 1996 15:47:20 -0500
From:      dubois@primate.wisc.edu (Paul DuBois)
To:        wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org, commercial@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Licensing Software
Message-ID:  <199609252047.PAA29318@night.primate.wisc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9609251812.AA25774@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>; from Garrett Wollman on Sep 25, 1996 14:12:10 -0400
References:  <9609251415.AA23310@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199609251759.KAA06301@phaeton.artisoft.com> <9609251812.AA25774@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>

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Garrett Wollman writes:
> > I don't know about your machine, but mine has one:
> 
> > 	# dmesg | grep de0
> > 	de0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0: DC21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3
> > 	de0: Ethernet address 00:80:48:e8:1b:b1
> 
> I said ``burned into [a PC]''.  Moving these things around happens
> frequently and is certainly easy to do.  Try again.

What part of the machine is the ID burned into, in your thinking?
My Suns have CPU ID's, and you can't change them with "hostid", but
if the CPU goes bad and gets swapped, so does the ID.  Or is this
acceptable?

-- 
Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu
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