On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 11:35:56AM +0100, Bert De Vuyst wrote: > > Hello, > > In our network we have some old PC's running the flexlm license > manager. I would like to migrate these setups to vservers. But there > is a problem regarding to the MAC address of the network interface. > The license is bound to a specific network card. Migrating the license > isn't cheap.
hehe .. well I will further assume that whatever you want to do is _legal_ in your country and I will just do some brainstorming here which must not be considered an advice or incitement to do something illegal ... > Is there a way to setup "virtual" interfaces having there own MAC in > linux? Someone told it is possible using user-mode-linux and bridging. > But I would like to user linux-vserver instead of UML. I don't care > about the overhead of a bridge, as there is hardly any load on these > machines. So far, I got the bridge running. But I can't set the MAC > addres (using: ifconfig promisc hw) depending on the number of guests which would require such changes, and the way the check is implemented, you could do one of the following: - write a preload library/command wrapper to fake the MAC - hack the kernel to report per guest MAC - use dummy interfaces and assign a separate MAC of course, IMHO you should _pay_ for the migration and/or _complain_ to the company where you got those licenses from ... best, Herbert > Thanks for your help, > > Bert. > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
