<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Dear Joe Landman,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The only issues that I have seen with
Flexlm involve using a server that has with multiple ethernet cards. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The lmhostid is the "default"
mac address, but making changes to the server (new OS, changing network
cards ) has changed the "default" eth0 definition at times. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I have had eth0 and eth1 "change"
identities as I patch the OS or add ethernet cards. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">It has never happened without cause,
eventho unexpected at the software change.</font>
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Sincerely,<br>
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Tom Pierce<br>
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Toon Knapen wrote:<br>
> What kind of problems: developing using FlexLm or deploying an app
which <br>
> needs to talk to a flexlm-server ?<br>
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flexlm server suddenly and inexplicably switching its lmhostid. After
a <br>
reboot. Renders all licenses unusable.<br>
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This happened recently at two customers sites. One was a windows
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license server, one was a linux license server. Restarting the boxes
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didn't help. Restarting the daemon didn't help. Looking at
the license <br>
files didn't indicate an expiration. The logs didn't indicate this
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either. It just appeared (in the logs) that the thing stopped believing
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it was server 1 (the lmhostid is a mac address BTW), and suddenly <br>
started believing it was a server 2 (well, it took the other mac address
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as its lmhostid).<br>
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Very annoying. Have seen this on multiple boxes over the past few
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years, ones we haven't touched as well as ones we try to "fix"
(e.g. <br>
alter the setup so that the flexlm daemon will in fact run correctly).<br>
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This impacts multiple vendor products BTW.<br>
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-- <br>
Joseph Landman, Ph.D<br>
Founder and CEO<br>
Scalable Informatics LLC,<br>
email: landman@scalableinformatics.com<br>
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http://jackrabbit.scalableinformatics.com<br>
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