I have a FreeBSD 5.3 system running and several jails running on it.
I have a piece of software licensed to the base system IP since the
software's IP detector, in past tests, would pick up the base and the
jail IPs as valid. This would allow me to run the software in any
jail on that licensed server. (The license is to the HW server --
not a particular jail since all jails run on the same system using
the same kernel etc).
Anyway, I rebooted the machine the other day and now the software
won't run in the jails. The reason is that its IP detection for the
license (license is geared to the IP) now picks up the jail IP,
another of the alias jail IPs for another jail, and "localhost" and
it does not pick up the base system IP any more.
So I went to the base system outside of the jails and did an ifconfig
-a . It shows all the IPs (some 40) assigned to the interface and
the other jail IP that the software's license piece found was listed
first in this ifconfig so I am guessing that the software gets the
list of IPs as given by ifconfig.
Is there any way to influence the order of the IPs listed by
ifconfig? It is not the order they were declared in the /etc/rc.conf
which created them. The system base IP was listed first
ifconfig_bge0="inet xxx.70.252.132 netmask 255.255.255.0"
ifconfig_bge0_alias0="inet xxx.70.252.50 netmask 255.255.255.255"
ifconfig_bge0_alias1="inet xxx.70.252.37 netmask 255.255.255.255"
ifconfig_bge0_alias2="inet xxx.70.252.9 netmask 255.255.255.255" #
ifconfig_bge0_alias3="inet xxx.70.252.34 netmask 255.255.255.255"
ifconfig_bge0_alias4="inet xxx.70.252.31 netmask 255.255.255.255"
ifconfig_bge0_alias5="inet xxx.70.252.231 netmask 255.255.255.255"
.
.
.
The base system IP is .132 but ifconfig shows .34 first and this is
the IP that is found by the sw license code.
Any ideas welcome
Thanks
Chad
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