From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 25 16: 6: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2ADD15481 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:05:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id QAA12988; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:05:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id QAA05812; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:05:25 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn2.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA07200; Fri, 25 Jun 99 16:05:22 PDT Message-Id: <37740B32.82B5B268@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 17:05:22 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System unique identifier..... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > Whose BIOS NVRAM? > > > > The host system BIOS NVRAM. I thought we were looking for a per-host > > ID here, right? > > Yes, but this kind of NVRAM isn't available on an Alpha, or a Sparc. On the SPARC you can put it in the OpenBoot environment. I dunno about the Alpha. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message