Homedir backup (was Re: "Stateless Linux" project)

Roberto Peon grmoc at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 15 17:55:23 UTC 2004


Well,  the only way I see of uniquely and securely determining if this is the 
network you want is not an easy problem-- it would require changes in a lot 
of routing infrastructure...

In any case, I can't think of another ID  -likely- to be unique on the 
network.

-R

On Wednesday 15 September 2004 01:48 pm, Carwyn Edwards wrote:
> Michael Favia wrote:
> > We bet a lot of things on theoretical uniqueness in computing. Short
> > of spoofing and freakish occurances im personally willing to bet my
> > "home" on the uniqueness of a mac address.
>
> Really? Even though there is hardware out there that lets the user
> manually assign the MAC and that there are routers out there that
> "spoof" MACs for use with broadband ISP access controls?
>
> Carwyn





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