Hi,

> You're exactly correct - it's the IDPROM. If the machine dies, you can
put
> it's IDPROM into a working machine, thus keeping your hostid, Ethernet
> address, etc, for licensing purposes.

Does this mean that when the IDPROM reaches it's end of life, you can just
poke another one in and reconfigure it?  That would be nicer than finding a
replacement and doing some chip-levering on older systems as I'm sure
people will be using these still in 10 years.  As you all know `old suns
never die' (addendum: however hard you try to kill them ;-).

Sounds like some nice kit...

- Chris.