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 Message-ID: <19970604000805.OZ37222@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199706030734.RAA02671@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Jun 3, 1997 17:04:24 %2B0930 References: <19970603082347.TZ02340@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199706030734.RAA02671@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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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. ;-)
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