From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 3 15:23:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA26792 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 15:23:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA26787 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 15:23:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA21493 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 00:23:02 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA16700; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 00:08:05 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970604000805.OZ37222@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 00:08:05 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Minor linux_emul update References: <19970603082347.TZ02340@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199706030734.RAA02671@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199706030734.RAA02671@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Jun 3, 1997 17:04:24 +0930 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Michael Smith wrote: > > 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? > > It's empty, and you require a different license type. Why a different license type? An ethernet address is about as ``secure'' as any other arbitrarily invented number. I can forge an ethernet address as well on almost any modern ethernet card, the times when they have been set in stone by a GAL or other hardware have long since gone anyway. They are stored in EEPROMs these days (so it at worst requires a soldering iron). I think it should be invented at the first use, and stored in some configuration file then. Even Slowarlis (x86) does it this way. The (Un-)FlexLM suits seem to can live with this. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)