On Wed, 09 Feb 2000, James G Smith wrote:
> Somewhat off topic... Using some hardware related information such as NIC
> info will either break high availability solutions or require such hacks as
> kernel modifications to allow software setting of the MAC address. Take a
> look at FlexLM (used to manage Matlab licenses) as an example of how *not* to
> design software protection.
That's the pointer I needed - thank you. I can't use something on the one
machine because any load balanced system won't work then (I'm using the MAC
code from the eagle book for cookie strengthening). Time to use something
out of the database set by the user.
Thanks anyway.
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