[Soekris] CPU Serial # ?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <200705041913.l44JDUQ9040958 at lava.sentex.ca>, Mike Tancsa writes:

>Is there a way to uniquely identify a soekris box through a software 
>check ?  I know I could look at the MAC address of a NIC, but that 
>can be trivially changed via software.  Is there a CPU serial # or 
>anything like that which could be checked ?

The MAC addresses are the only unique numbers in the system.

You could check if it is possible to read the MAC EEPROM via
the if_sis chips to get around the ifconfig(8) issue.

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