Host ID.

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:28:46PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 05:21:25PM +0200, Julien Gabel wrote:
> > >There's even a business [1] selling software to change
> > >Solaris hostid for ?49. Should I squat freebsdhostid.com? :)
> > >
> > >[1] http://www.solarishostid.com/
> > 
> > For free, you generally can fake it by rewriting the gethostid
> > function along with the use
> > of ${LD_PRELOAD}; or use DTrace if using a Solaris 10 system :)
> 
> While thinking along these lines, what will we do on sparc64 systems,
> which will generally print a hostid on the console at boot time which
> will be significantly different to the one that we'll be presenting
> within FreeBSD on those systems?
> 
> I suspect that this is just a documentation issue, but it would be
> somewhat confusing.

Presumably on systems that have a real host id we can just use that :)

Kris
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