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Appendix A Hostids for FLEXlm-Supported Machines

FLEXlm uses different machine identifications for different machine architectures. For example, all Sun Microsystems, Inc. machines have a unique hostid, whereas all DEC machines do not. For this reason, the ethernet address is used on some machine architectures as the `hostid'. An ethernet address is a 6-byte quantity, with each byte specified as two hexadecimal digits. Specify all 12 hex digits when using an ethernet address as a hostid. For example, if the ethernet address is 8:0:20:0:5:ac, you would specify `0800200005AC' as the hostid.

The program lmhostid will print the exact hostid that FLEXlm expects to use on any given machine. The following table lists alternate methods to obtain the required hostid for each machine architecture

A.1 Hostid Table.

Apollo	20-bit ID	lcnode -me	BE70
Decstation	ethernet address	pfstat or arp hostname	080020005532
DG aviion	32-bit hostid	/usr/sbin/systemid	0C020972
HP	32-bit hostid	echo 'uname -i' 16o p | dc	778DA450
	ethernet address	lanscan (use station address without leading `0x')	0000F0050185
RS/6000	32-bit hostid	uname -m (returns 000276513100), then remove last 2 digits, and use remaining last 8 digits	02765131
SCO (FLEXlm v.3.0)	Hostid String	uname -x (returns SCO00354), then prefix with `ID_STRING='	ID_STRING=SCO00354
SCO (FLEXlm pre-3.0		uname -x (returns SCO00354), then remove any non hex letters from the serial number	00354
SGI	32-bit hostid	echo '/etc/sysinfo -s'16o p | dc	69022F72
SUN	32-bit hostid	hostid	170a3472
VAX/VMSAlpha/OpenVMS	ethernet address	ncp	0800200055327
Windows	ethernet	lmutil lmhostid	0800200055327
	Disk serial number	DIR C: (look for `Volume Serial Number is', and remove `-')	DISK_SERIAL_NUM=1CA25283
	Dongle (parallel port hardware key)	lmhostid -flexid	FLEXID=72850003

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