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James A Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk> writes: >On Tuesday 20 November 2001 9:27 pm, David Woodhouse wrote: >> amon@vnl.com said: >> > In any case, here is the problem: >> > NIC on motherboard, Realtek >> > NIC on PCI card, Realtek >> > Monolithic (no-module) kernel >> > Motherboard must be set to eth0 >> >> Why must the motherboard be set to eth0? Why not just configure it as it >> gets detected? >He has some software licensing thing which checks the MAC address of eth0. >Of course, what he could do is change the MAC address of eth0 to whatever the >licensing software wants... :-) One could imagine a module to read the MAC address from the eeprom and not from the Interface.. Makes this scenario not impossible but much harder. Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen -- Geschaeftsfuehrer INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH hps@intermeta.de Am Schwabachgrund 22 Fon.: 09131 / 50654-0 info@intermeta.de D-91054 Buckenhof Fax.: 09131 / 50654-20 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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