Re: unique hardware identification

From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:11:32 +1100

On Sun, 2007-Jan-28 10:39:36 -0600, Jon Passki wrote:

If the machine is a PXE-compliant device [2], it should have a GUID/
UUID [1] available. This can be exposed by sysutil/hal [3] via the
smbios.system.uuid field.

You can also get it via kenv(8) without needing any ports:
# kenv smbios.system.uuid
9F345F4F-BEFC-D431-1340-61235A56DEF9

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Peter Jeremy

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References:
- Re: unique hardware identification
  - From: Daniel Rudy
- Re: unique hardware identification
  - From: Jon Passki

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