On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 01:53:05PM -0500, Tim Mooney wrote:
> In regard to: Re: [Networker] what is the ssid for?, A Darren Dunham 
> said...:
> 
> >Older versions of networker did use a
> >more sequential numbering for ssids, but that hasn't been true since at
> >least 6.0.  The sequential numbering was a problem because it made it
> >much more likely that you'd have ssid collisions if you needed to import
> >a foreign tape.
> 
> Is that why they changed it?  I had always wondered why they went to
> today's seemingly random ssid scheme.

I don't know about all the reasons (I've never worked there), but I
recall that was mentioned when it went into place.  SSID collisions are
bad, so it would make some sense.

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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
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