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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 12:15:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net>
To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
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On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Nate Williams wrote:

> > > Uhh, no, at the moment that's left as an exercise for the pirate. 8)
> > 
> > Why pirate?  Somehow, you must generate the number, one way or the
> > other.  You know it...  I've got no ethernet at all, so what's the
> > returned number?
> 
> "", which means you must use a different licensing scheme on your box.
> 
> > I replace my first ethernet card by a totally
> > different number, am i required to change my license?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> (And, unfortunately, I am being serious, at least in the eyes of the
> folks who use FlexLM for software licensing.)
> 
> 
> Nate
> 

Unless HOSTID is implemented.  Back when I was admining SunOS/Solaris
boxes, FlexLM was using hostid's for verifacation.  And of course, Sun
being Sun, you can change a hostid on a system as easily as you can change
MAC addresses on a Sun box  :)

Jamie Bowden

System Administrator, iTRiBE.net