From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 25 12:33:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA11908 for current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 12:33:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA11724; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 12:32:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA09117; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 12:27:34 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199609251927.MAA09117@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Licensing Software In-Reply-To: <199609251748.KAA06278@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Sep 25, 96 10:48:14 am" To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 12:27:33 -0700 (PDT) Cc: stesin@gu.net, ulf@Lamb.net, jhs@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, serious@FreeBSD.org, commercial@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 'course. Pity Intel didn't think on burning a unique CPU > > ID into each chip they made. Even PDP11 had this. > > What can be thought to become a unique FreeBSD machine ID, anyway? > > > > I can think on a MD5 checksum of the following > > things together: > > > > CPU type; > > motherboard chipset ID (if available); > > manufacturer's ID of a primary HDD; > > primary disk controller' ID (if available); > > OS kernel version (?); > > canonical hostname. > > Network address. Really. > > You will never get two machines setting the same network address > because if you did, they would fail to operate as network nodes. Yea, so, I put a third box called a dummy router/NAT between them and make them talk. Novell Netware servers can be fooled into operating this way (thats how I do server to server upgrades of Netware, just put a router between them and spoof a few things, works great, and no inplace upgrade risk, and no need for a second license.) -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD