bump Tom Ly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:That works great in a windows environment. But on Linux machines,the line will always return 127.0.0.1
Tim Funk wrote:Ideally use a string for uniqueness, not an int. For an int is too small across a cluster. To get a unique string, concatenate your IP address with java.rmi.server.UID(), for example: String guid = InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostAddress() + (new java.rmi.server.UID()).toString()); See the javadocs on UID for more info. -Tim Tom Ly wrote: > I have an application where I need to generate a unique int for each request that > comes in. I've got about 8 Tomcat instances running spread across four machines(two > tomcat's each machine). It's pretty simple with one Tomcat, but with mulitple > Tomcats it gets tricky. I tried using InetAddress to get the ip address of the > current machine and use that to set the range for each tomcat(since the ip address > will always be unique), but since I'm using Linux, it'll always return 127.0.0.1 as > the ip address, so I can use class InetAddress. Any advice on what to do? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard
