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> References: <20060807003815.C7522@ganymede.hub.org> <20060808102819.GB64879@augusta.de> <20060808153921.V7522@ganymede.hub.org> <44D8EC98.8020801@utdallas.edu> <20060808201359.S7522@ganymede.hub.org> <44D91F02.90107@mawer.org> <20060808212719.L7522@ganymede.hub.org> <20060809072313.GA19441@sysadm.stc> <ef10de9a0608090341l696b6ea3s2187f4b0a9b5fa6e@mail.gmail.com> <20060809105404.GC19441@sysadm.stc> <44DA0715.1020507@utdallas.edu> <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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