ah ok...
sorry i can't help you then
i gave up running a license server on OSX some time ago
because of all this kind of problems...


On 28 dec 2012, at 00:09, Howard Jones wrote:

> To be even clearer, this is between restarts. It hasn't switched yet whilst 
> on. 
> 
> Howard
> 
> On 27 Dec 2012, at 22:58, Howard Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Simply put it seems mountain lion will use either en0 or en1 or wi-fi if no 
>> en1 as the MAC address returned by the foundry's licensing software. 
>> 
>> It seems a bit random as to which one can be returned. 
>> 
>> This is a well discussed issue recently on the list. No solution has been 
>> iron proof so far. 
>> 
>> I'm assuming that its an OS issue rather than the licensing software and 
>> pretty sure I've confirmed that in the shell. 
>> 
>> Anyway for a rock solid system on Lion this is now an issue with Mountain 
>> Lion. 
>> 
>> I've ordered the network list but nothing works reliably. 
>> 
>> Re. bobos post I had read a number of similar posts hence why spoofing en1 
>> and rebooting has so far worked at least temporarily. 
>> 
>> Lastly I haven't tested disabling en1 yet. 
>> 
>> Howard
>> 
>> On 27 Dec 2012, at 22:10, ArnoB <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hey Howard,
>>> 
>>> What exactly is going wrong? What is switching?
>>> 
>>> Nuke doesn't really look at the NICs does it?
>>> It talks to the license server which gets its MAC
>>> from the first NIC in the list on OSX.
>>> 
>>> I noticed sometimes the server goes down when
>>> that NIC doesn't have an IP anymore (either the plug
>>> is pulled or the wireless is out of reach).
>>> You can solve this by setting the IP manually in the
>>> sysPrefs/network.
>>> 
>>> Does that solve it for you?
>>> 
>>> greets
>>> Arno
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 27 dec 2012, at 17:23, Howard Jones wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi
>>>> 
>>>> Has anyone found a good solution for this?
>>>> 
>>>> I'm finding it's switching between en0 and en1 on a workstation.
>>>> 
>>>> I've tried spoofing the address by 
>>>> sudo ifconfig en1 lladdr <mac address>
>>>> 
>>>> but Nukex doesn't buy it, but on a restart it will switch back to en0, for 
>>>> a time at least.
>>>> 
>>>> On a notebook I guess en1 doesn't exist which is why it switched to Wi-Fi.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers 
>>>> Howard
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