Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 14:12:10 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), jhs@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, commercial@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Licensing Software Message-ID: <9609251812.AA25774@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199609251759.KAA06301@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <9609251415.AA23310@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199609251759.KAA06301@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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<<On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 10:59:23 -0700 (MST), Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> said: > Flexible renumbering in general? Yes, I'll admit it's a barrier > to flexible renumbering. Under what circumstances would you want > to allow a license host to "flexibly renumber"? To hide the > licenses from Billy-Bob? It makes no sense. You do not assign your addresses. Your IP addresses reflect the topology your host is embedded in. That's what makes them ADDRESSES. They are subject to change at the whim of anyone in topology who is logically ``above'' you. In IPv6, the standard configuration model is that a host, when powered on, will ask the network what its address is, and there is no guarantee whatsoever that the address it got before is the same as the address is gets now, because the prefix (in particular) can change without notice. >> If PCs had some sort of IEEE 802.x address burned into them >> as a sort of serial number, you might be able to do this, but they >> don't, so you can't do this, either. > I don't know about your machine, but mine has one: > # dmesg | grep de0 > de0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0: DC21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3 > de0: Ethernet address 00:80:48:e8:1b:b1 I said ``burned into [a PC]''. Moving these things around happens frequently and is certainly easy to do. Try again. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschickhelp
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