On 06/28/2012 10:01 PM, Ian Lepore wrote: > When something in software works fine with one NIC but not another > (nearly-) identical one, the first thing that comes to my mind is that > the MAC address on the card is being used by the software as a sort of > UUID. I had that happen with a commercial software once; when I changed > NICs in the machine the software stopped working and said it wasn't > registered on that machine. (I would have been annoyed except this > sophisticed "security system" was circumvented by deleting a file that > wasn't even hard to find, and it automatically re-authorized itself on > the next run using the new MAC address.)
That came to my mind, too. The thing is, I can set any MAC address I want on both NICs. The result is still the same. The first one is working, the second one not. Greetings, Herbert _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
