You appear to be saying here that the MAC address will change as often
or more often than the PSN. So you agree with what Nathan was saying.
> And the MAC is useful outside the machine (DHCP and such), which the
> PSN is not.
He may be working in an environment where NICs get changed quite
often, but CPUs don't. Imagine a research lab where they play with new
networking technology (say they build NICs), and the drivers are in a
state of flux.
Regards,
Richard....
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