[asterisk-dev] Is ast_channel->uniqueid really unique ?

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Monday 22 January 2007 4:03 pm, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> How can you tell when the "unique" ID is the same on two servers?

> An ipv4 address might have been a nice identifier, if you can actually
> assume all hosts share the same IPv4 namespace. However you have to
> consider NAT, that may segment your namespace, and IPv6, that uses 128
> bits.

Why not just use the MAC ID, or allow "uidprefix=###" in asterisk.conf?

-A.