Re: KLive: Linux Kernel Live Usage Monitor

[Sven Ladegast <sven@linux4geeks.de>]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Alan Cox wrote:

>> Registering means to create an ID for the system? Something out of
>> timestamp plus your PCI IDs and CPU info and so on?
>
> Or have the other end issue you some kind of secure cookie, which was my
> thought. Generating it locally as you suggest would be even better as a
> hardware change would make a box change identity automatically

Reading twice is sometimes better. :) It must have been late yesterday...

Well changing ID automagically can be okay because a system changes its ID 
from time to time and so you cannot track a certain system/person easily.

Why not generating a unique system ID at compilation stage of the kernel 
if the apopriate kernel option is enabled? This needn't have something to 
do with klive...just a unique kernel-ID or something like that.

klive, if userspace or not, finally makes use of this ID to generate live 
stats of kernel usage. PCI-IDs, CPU and whatever else could be used as a 
salt to generate a really UNIQE ID...

Sven