WANTED: ethernet address or other unique ID for DEC-station

[Tom Ivar Helbekkmo]

emmerik at utrcu1.UUCP (Emmerik P.J.L. van) writes:
>Wanted: a way of obtaining a unique identifier for a DEC
>        workstation from a program.

The normal way to do this would be to use the 'hostid', I suppose.
You set it from your /etc/rc.local at boot, normally using the
internet address of the machine.  Thus, I have:

/bin/hostid 81b1260f

in my /etc/rc.local.  Then, I can use the gethostid() call from a
program to get this value.  The hostid is supposed to be a unique
identifier for the machine 'among all Unix systems in existence'.

-tih
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