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- From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon Wtte)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Uniquely identifying a Mac? How?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.121756.23075@kth.se>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 12:17:56 GMT
- References: <9235010.4295@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- In <9235010.4295@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> mtc@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Michael Trevor CUTTER) writes:
-
- >We are looking for a way to uniquely identify a Mac, probably one on a network,
- >but not necessarily. Is the serial number or similar available somewhere in the
- >ROMs or parameter RAM? (Highly unlikely, I know - specially since PRAM can be
- >reset)
-
- The ROMs are masked, so doing them unique would be a trifle expensive :-)
- (You could do it by burning wit a laser)
-
- >We are considering assigning each mac a unique chooser name then disabling the
- >Sharing Setup Control panel...this is the best solution so far.
-
- If you run MacTCP, each mac will have/get its own IP address;
- likewise, EtherNet cards have a 6-byte EtherNet address that's
- unique in the world.
-
- --
- -- Jon W{tte, h+@nada.kth.se, Mac Hacker Deluxe --
- The word "politics" is derived from the word "poly", meaning
- "many", and the word "ticks", meaning "blood sucking parasites".
- -- Larry Hardiman
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