Re: [NTLK] NID [Was: Help]

From: Eckard Brauer (E.Brauer_at_intershop.de)
Date: Fri Jun 29 2001 - 01:24:14 PDT

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On 2001.06.28 23:48:11 +0200, Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
> Umm... no. Ethernet hardware addresses are burned into the adaptor at
> the
> time of manufacture. Some adaptors can have their addresses temporarilly
> superseded, but that is a "feature" of the adaptor, not the OS.

Or, mac addresses may be set at any time for some adapters, for instance
SUN ethernet adapters, where mac addresses are either read at boot time
from config PROM or set using the ifconfig command.

> I believe it calculates the ID from the CPU serial number.

Is that a really unique number, or is it equal for a series of CPUs?

Eckard

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