[email protected] wrote: > >How about using only the last 3 bytes of the MAC? > >The probability of using, on the same system, *two or more* controllers >from *different brands* with a collision in the last 3 bytes is >nonexistent in practice. > >The clear benefit would be that 3 bytes / 6 hex digits are easy enough >to remember in the short term memory when you need to type a command. 6 >hex digits are also regularly used as short git references for that same >reason.
Good suggestion, yes. :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are forecast." Matthew Garrett, http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/30675.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
