On another note, I have heard the argument that a unique identifier already
exists in the form of a MAC address why not make further use of it?
I can remember early TCP/IP implementations that used class A
addressing only, with the host portion of the Enet MAC address as the
host portion of the IP address - "because ARP is too hard" or
something like that. I think the first Suns did this.
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