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Re: GUID algorithm
"Scott McKay" <swm@mediaone.net> writes:
> I remember that when Dan Weinreb did this for Statice he combined
> three quantities:
> - the machine's serial number (you could also use the IP address of
> it's Ethernet card)
Nowadays, it's more common to use the MAC address of the Ethernet
card. It's supposed to be unique.
> - the current universal time down to the second
> - some of the digits of the current microsecond time, not including
> the highest or lowest order bits
> The serial number/IP address, well, that might be a bit tougher, but I
> don't see how you can be unique across machines unless you use something
> like this.
I believen ifconfig gives you the MAC address both on Unix and some
flavours of Windows.
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