Alex Satrapa wrote:
> As long as you don't use RFC1918 addresses, the IPv4 address(es) of the
> host should be unique for the Internet. Append/prepend a 32 bit
> timestamp and you have a 64bit unique identifier that is "universally"
> unique (to one second).
Remember that /sbin/ifconfig output usually include MAC address too. Not
that MAC addresses are 100% unique, but that should increase the uniqueness.
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dave