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Date:      Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:24:57 +0200
From:      Herbert Poeckl <freebsdml@ist.tugraz.at>
To:        Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Need help with nfsv4 and krb5 access denied
Message-ID:  <4FED9089.2080002@ist.tugraz.at>
In-Reply-To: <1340913681.1110.84.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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On 06/28/2012 10:01 PM, Ian Lepore wrote:
> When something in software works fine with one NIC but not another
> (nearly-) identical one, the first thing that comes to my mind is that
> the MAC address on the card is being used by the software as a sort of
> UUID.  I had that happen with a commercial software once; when I changed
> NICs in the machine the software stopped working and said it wasn't
> registered on that machine.  (I would have been annoyed except this
> sophisticed "security system" was circumvented by deleting a file that
> wasn't even hard to find, and it automatically re-authorized itself on
> the next run using the new MAC address.)

That came to my mind, too.

The thing is, I can set any MAC address I want on both NICs. The result
is still the same. The first one is working, the second one not.

Greetings,
 Herbert



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