Re: MAC Address

["Thomas Harning Jr." <harningt@...>]

For license generation, on OSX you have a UUID that is available and
shouldn't change (if it does somehow, itunes, for example, breaks
IIRR)

On windows you could abuse CryptProtectData since it is supposed to
protect data in a permachine manner... You can uniquely identify a
mach using that.

For linux... You'd want to determine how to identify a machine... NICs
can move, hard drives replaced, motherboards replaced,... What
constitutes a new machine?  Trying to use the windows activation
"algorithm" of generating an ID that can still be matched if a few
components change, but rquire reactivation beyond that.

Universal license management would require a special library to
support machine identification.  I could probably assist or take on
such a task if there is a need in the lua community.  Would prbably
dev in a plain c library than wrap in lua to make it the most useful
tool.

On 2/13/11, Leo Razoumov <slonik.az@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 05:37, Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@gmail.com> wrote:
>> MAC is someting ethernet specific, not every network interface has to
>> have one. Correct me if I'm wrong, but why should a PPP-connection
>> have a mac adress anyway? Its a point-to-point connection, no need to
>> address something on Layer 2 in the OSI Modell where Mac belongs to.
>>
>> Also not every computer must have a "default network interface", what
>> if you are not connected to the internet and thus not have a default
>> route? Or you are part of the backbone? (unlikely but possible :-)
>>
>> I wonder what the usecase is that warrents wanting to know "mac of the
>> default network interface"?
>>
>
> I do not think that there is a universal definition of the "default
> NIC interface" because its meaning depends on interpretation of the
> word 'default' in this context. For the sake of sending/receiving IP
> packets it is natural to assume 'default' being associated with a
> default route.
>
> On the other hand, for the sake of unique machine identification (e.g.
> proprietary license code generation)  you might consider the first
> Ethernet MAC.  Do 'ifconfig -a' if on UNIX and pick the NIC you like.
>
> --Leo--
>
>


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Thomas Harning Jr.