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Re: Breakdown of IDL 5.3 license manager after Update Inux [message #19708 is a reply to message #19642]

Wed, 12 April 2000 00:00

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John-David T. Smith
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Registered: January 2000

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"R.Bauer" wrote:
>
> Harald von der Osten-Woldenburg wrote:
>>
>> Dear Specialists
>>
>> help help help...
>>
>> several days ago I have received my update from IDL 5.0 to 5.3 for Linux
>> with the license-file, and just before it's installation I have updated
>> my Linux OS SuSE 6.0 --> 6.3
>>
>> But now the license manager says that the HostID of my computer has
>> changed to:
>>
>>> lmhostid - Copyright (C) 1989-1999 Globetrotter Software, Inc.
>>> The FLEXlm host ID of this machine is ""
>>>
>>
>> and of course I can only work in demo mode.
>>
>> Is there anybody out there who has made the same experiences? What can
>> or must I do - I have no idea any more, just some more grey hairs...
>>
>> Thanx a lot!!!
>>
>> Harald
>
> Hi Harald,
>
> The problem is that's the hostID is the hex number of the IP-Address
> (that's the definition).

I'm not sure about this.... I've always found it to be the hardware address of
the ethernet card. This means the card has to be in *and* a route defined to
it. If you are using PPP, for instance, to ensure IDL will find your card, you
need to define a single static route to the machine itself through the
interface. Since the interface isn't connected to any network at home,
presumably, any other routes will mess you up. Such a self-route would show up
in netstat -r as:

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
1.2.3.4 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0

where 1.2.3.4 is your IP address and eth0 is your ethernet device. I had to
deal with this on a laptop which sometime would be on an ethernet network in the
office, and sometimes would dial up over PPP from home. To keep IDL working in
all places, you need to keep your ethernet card in and ensure the route above is
defined, in addition to any PPP or ethernet default and gateway routes.

I can give more details if people are interested.

JD

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		Breakdown of IDL 5.3 license manager after Update Inux By: Harald von der Osten-[1] on Mon, 10 April 2000 00:00
		Re: Breakdown of IDL 5.3 license manager after Update Inux By: R.Bauer on Thu, 13 April 2000 00:00
		Re: Breakdown of IDL 5.3 license manager after Update Inux By: Martin Schultz on Thu, 13 April 2000 00:00
		Re: Breakdown of IDL 5.3 license manager after Update Inux By: John-David T. Smith on Wed, 12 April 2000 00:00
		Re: Breakdown of IDL 5.3 license manager after Update Inux By: R.Bauer on Wed, 12 April 2000 00:00
		Re: Breakdown of IDL 5.3 license manager after Update Inux By: Harald von der Osten-[1] on Wed, 12 April 2000 00:00

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