Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <> | Subject | Re: A return to PCI ordering problems... | Date | Wed, 21 Nov 2001 11:29:37 +0000 (UTC) |
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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
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