Michael Renzmann wrote:
> The problem I have is the following: one of our customers has two
> 10/100 MBit VG/Anylan-NICs in his Network. Now he has to change these
> NICs because lacking drivers for this cards. No problem that far, but
> one of his programs (CAD-software) is somehow dongled with the NICs
> MAC. I can�t figure completly out why he doesn�t talk to the vendor of
> this program in order to change the licence key to work with the MAC
> of the new card, but he told me that was not possible. So the idea of
> changing the new NICs mac to that of the old NIC came up. This is no
> issue of software piracy, even if one could think about that.
The feature might also come in handy for another application:
High-availability solutions.
A backup server could pick up the primary�s IP address and also MAC address
to allow for a "seamless" handover of the clients which otherwise would
have to way until their ARP cache expired.
-- Jens
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