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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: TCP/IP on Xenix - summary
Keywords: TCP,IP,Xenix,Ethernet,Excelan
Message-ID: <96@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 89 01:55:38 GMT
References: <157@csinc.UUCP> <875@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates
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In article <875@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes:
}Apparently, however, the Lachman TCP/IP which SCO sells contains
}a "copy-protection" feature which broadcasts the product's serial
}number to a particular UDP port on some regular basis.  If two
}different systems have the same serial no., something bad happens.
}(Presumably one or both go off-line; I've never tested.)
}
}Needless to say, this is unacceptable in any system which pretends to
}be a production system.  The marketeers were unrepentant as of last
}August at the SCO Forum.  I don't know whether things have changed
}since then.

It basically fails silently (I seem to remember there is a message logged
somewhere). The symptom is that things work ok for a few seconds and then
stop on one system (not the same one every time).

I have this happen about 50% of the time when I'm re-installing - I can
never remember which key goes with which machine.

It's a *royal* pain in the *ss.


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