Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 10:33:54 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Subject: Re: Linux emulation, gethostid() Message-ID: <199610230833.KAA25025@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199610230354.NAA23453@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Oct 23, 96 01:24:19 pm"
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As Michael Smith wrote: > Do we want an ioctl to get the hardware address? If not, any > suggestions on a _tidy_ way to get it? Grab the number you like by any means you like somewhere in rc.local, and issue a sethostid(3) with it. No need to bloat the kernel for this. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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