Am 18. Feb 2005 um 16:48 schrieb Sam Rowlands:
I would not just use one Mac Address, while the majority of the
population like to believe that Mac Addresses are unique, they are
not. I know this from experience. Samsung and Apple ranges cross over
and we have had several Samsung printers with the same Mac Address as
Apple computers and Base Stations
Really? Although MACs are assigned in a unique fashion to businesses,
some NICs allow to change them.
If this is really true, TCP/IP's ARP protocol will break. So the
systems might not be used in one network. Hm...
And what about if the user changes the order of network devices in
System Preferences, wouldn't this then reflect in the RB code?
This is a problem. Moreover, not all NIC are enabled all the time.
On another side note, the serial number of the Mac is stored on the
Hard Drive, so if you swap Hard Drives or reformat it, it may not have
the serial number. I personally have partitioned my drive and now my
machine does not have a serial number [except the one printed on the
underside].
Isn't the serial stored somewhere in PRAM and thus assumed to be
constant?
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