Just adding to this so I can get my name on the map :-) >i should have checked the docs.. > >"time-of-day value, the IEEE 802 Host ID, and a cryptographically strong random >number generator"
The first section is the time-based section and if I remember a quote from Robin (possibly?) a while back the chance of being non-unique from that section alone is 1 in 16 million if two requests occur on the same machine in the same 1 millisecond of the clock's ticks. The last section is the MAC address suitably disguised and the bits in the middle are the random numbers but they only change if the first section demands it. I recollect at a server farm in a Govt dept using Compaq servers that the first of the middle sections constantly changed due to the weird clustering they were using, I never worked that one out :-) -- Yours, Kym --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
