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Date:      Wed, 09 Aug 2006 17:31:27 +0100
From:      Howard Jones <howie@thingy.com>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org>,  freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...
Message-ID:  <44DA0DDF.40300@thingy.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060809130634.S7522@ganymede.hub.org>
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> The uniqueness is a combination of IP+hostname ... again, as one pointed
> out with PCBSD, this isn't always necessarily the case, but, IMHO, that
> is a flaw of PCBSD having all hosts on the same network using the same
> hostname ...

That's the nice thing with the 'ifconfig|sha256' scheme. Because it
would include the MAC address of the interfaces in the hash, the only
'identical' machines would be ones with no ethernet interfaces at all.




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