Determining Ethernet HW Address

[Grant Edwards]

In article <38E291DD.E4BE14C1 at pehr.net>, pehr anderson wrote:

>I would *really* appreciate this feature being added to the 'os' module.
>This is really important for a lot of everyday, practical applications.

I'm still curious of what use the Ethernet address is to an
application?  

If "really important for everyday, practical applications"
means "useful for node-locking user licenses", then I'd vote no
(not that anybody asked for my vote), since I think node locked
licenses are evil.

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