> If you have an Ethernet card, (and the manufacturer of the Ethernet card
> was competent about assigning Ethernet addresses --- some weren't,
> unfortuantely), the guarantees on the uniqueness of UUID's is much more
> than statistical, actually.
On boxes that do not have unique machine ID's (e.g. Digital Unix on
Alpha), the FlexLM license manager uses the ethernet address in lieu of
the serial number. Have you actually ever encountered a duplicate enet
id?
Steve