>Hi, Hilmar-
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>>>I mentioned a couple of times conditions that make GUIDs unusable, but thanks anyway for the suggestion.
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>>Oh? I must have missed the threads.
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>Yep. THat would be the first sentence that said "I need to generate 7-digit, unique, random numeric quasi-serial number." ;-)
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>>I do know that the guarantee of the GUID being unique depends on the presence of a NIC.
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>Interesting. I did not know that.
Each NIC has a unique number (MAC); the GUID takes advantage of that for part of the code. It seems that another part of the code is a kind of sequential number. I also understand that the code is somehow transformed, so that the MAC can't be recognized.
If no NIC is present, some sort of random number is used instead.
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