05-10-2006
Why not use your network card's mac address? That's a big very-unique number that comes with your PC. The only caveat would be, upgrade your network card and it changes
Maybye generate /etc/unique_id from the mac address then just use the file thereafter?
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bt-network
bt-network(1) bluez-tools bt-network(1)
NAME
bt-network - a bluetooth network manager
SYNOPSIS
bt-network [OPTION...]
Help Options:
-h, --help
Application Options:
-a, --adapter=<name|mac>
-c, --connect <name|mac> <uuid>
-s, --server <gn|panu|nap> <brige>
DESCRIPTION
This utility is used to manage network services (client/server). All servers will be automatically unregistered when the application
terminates.
OPTIONS
-h, --help
Show help
-a, --adapter <name|mac>
Specify adapter to use by his Name or MAC address
(if this option does not defined - default adapter used)
-c, --connect <name|mac> <uuid>
Connect to the network device and return the network interface
name, uuid can be either one of "gn", "panu" or "nap"
-s, --server <gn|panu|nap> <brige>
Register server for the provided UUID, every new connection to
this server will be added the bridge interface
AUTHOR
Alexander Orlenko <zxteam@gmail.com>.
SEE ALSO
bt-adapter(1) bt-agent(1) bt-audio(1) bt-device(1) bt-input(1) bt-monitor(1) bt-serial(1)
2010-11-22 bt-network(1)