With "Adapter Fault Tolerance", you only have one MAC. The inactive card's actual MAC address is suppressed, and the driver uses the LAA (Locally Administered Address) ability to use that MAC when it becomes the active card. There is a tiny pause where the switch has to learn that the MAC has moved to a different physical port.
If the server is downed, and the first NIC removed or unplugged, then the secondary NIC's own MAC is used, and that would get you in trouble with an aggressive MAC based licencing scheme. Andrew 8) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark E. Smith Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 10:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Declude.Virus] MAC addresses for licenseing? We use AFT in all of our servers. How does this impact us? Why not just do a web-based key generator and allow for two or three keys to be generated. Have the user enter the IP, machine name and MAC and then spit back a key. If you exceed the number of keys then they need to call you. Every time this type of key has been used we get screwed because the company goes out of business and we can't license the software on a new machine. I think there's a better way of going about this.... Just my .02 --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.Virus mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.Virus". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.Virus mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.Virus". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
