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Re: Use MAC address for hostid?

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 16:24:38 -0700
Subject: Re: Use MAC address for hostid?
References: <20020912161301.A17604@lucon.org>

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H. J. Lu wrote:

We are using IP address for hostid. Can we try MAC address if it is
available?

Why? The additional bytes it provides cannot be used and it's equally unreliable since network cards are changed as well. And most importantly: changing this would break compatibility.

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