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Re: GUID algorithm
"Lieven Marchand" <mal@wyrd.be> wrote in message
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> "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.
Yup, sorry, that's what I meant to say. Sorry for the confusion I caused.
> > - 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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> Lieven Marchand <mal@wyrd.be>
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