I can confirm that my installation of libomv's TestClient still connects fine - version 0.6.3
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Gareth Nelson <gar...@garethnelson.com> wrote: > I wonder what the official LL response would be if you gave a randomly > generated MAC in these situations, or some kind of hash from other > aspects of the hardware -any lindens wish to comment? > > The other thing of course is defining what "this computer" means for > those of us who like to fiddle with our hardware. Personally i'm often > swapping components out of my desktop including harddrives and > ethernet cards. > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Henri Beauchamp <sl...@free.fr> wrote: >> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:49:01 -0600, Argent Stonecutter wrote: >> >>> On 2010-02-23, at 15:43, Robin Cornelius wrote: >>> > Also any one using mono with libomv has an issue as that cannot get >>> > the adaptor mac address and passes a NULL mac address, in the past LL >>> > have allowed a null mac address as they knew of this problem, clearly >>> > now though thats a breach of 2c part i. >>> >>> Not to mention that any device using SLIP or PPP, (and probably other >>> point-to-point protocols that don't require an address at the physical >>> layer) may not have a MAC address or ANY analogous hardware layer >>> address (even a PSTN). TCP/IP does not imply Ethernet. >>> >>> Admittedly this is not likely to be a common scenario, but the whole >>> idea that a MAC address is a unique identifier for a device is based >>> on a deep-seated confusion about the network stack. >> >> And today, LL seems to have pulled the plug off already for clients not >> prociding the MAC address on connection. Here is a copy of the ticket I >> just opened (I propose that everyone on this list using a text client >> opens the same kind of ticket): >> >> Summary: I cannot login any more using Mono-based, text only clients >> >> Details: >> >> Today I cannot connect any more when using text only "viewers" (clients) >> which are written in C# (Mono), such as OMV-light and Radegast. >> >> I get the following error: >> "Second Life cannot be accessed from this computer." >> but I can still connect from the same computer using either an official >> or full fledged third parties viewer. >> >> I therefore deduce, that you just disallowed the connection for clients >> not transmitting the MAC address of the Ethernet card the viewers are >> connected through (Mono/C# won't allow to retrieve such info). >> While LL has the right to change their policy about which client can >> connect or not to their service, I think it would be only normal to let >> a reasonable amount of time for the developers of third parties >> viewers/clients to adapt their software and make it compliant before such >> a policy is enforced. >> >> Seeing how the TPV policy was published only a couple of days ago, I don't >> see how OMV-light and Radegast developers could adapt fast enough ! >> >> Please note also that not all network interfaces got a MAC address (for >> example, an USB ADSL MODEM could or could not have such an address, >> depending entirely on its driver, and PPP links via MODEMs don't have a >> MAC address either), so basically, you are denying connection to SL to >> any resident not using a Ethernet card to connect to Internet !... >> This is pretty unreasonable too... >> >> Please, allow again the connection via text only clients (the only way to >> stay in contact all day long with your customers without having to run a >> viewer which eats up half of your memory and CPU power !). >> _______________________________________________ >> Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: >> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev >> Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting >> privileges >> > > > > -- > “Lanie, I’m going to print more printers. Lots more printers. One for > everyone. That’s worth going to jail for. That’s worth anything.” - > Printcrime by Cory Doctrow > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > -- “Lanie, I’m going to print more printers. Lots more printers. One for everyone. That’s worth going to jail for. That’s worth anything.” - Printcrime by Cory Doctrow Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
