[geeks] generating unique systemids

Phil Brutsche phil at tux.obix.com
Mon Aug 27 14:02:07 CDT 2007


Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> CPUs do not have an ID (Intel Xeon), at least none I can find.

IIRC all PIII and newer Intel CPUs - including the Xeon variants - have
a hard-coded unique ID in the form of a processor serial number.

Most of the time it's disabled by default in the BIOS.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at tux.obix.com



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