[Ukfreebsd] Question about linprocfs

[Mark Blackman]

On 27 May 2011, at 16:05, andy thomas wrote:

> I'm trying to get the Linux binary of the Magma computational algebra software package running on amd64 FreeBSD 8.2. When this binary is executed on a Linux system, it reads /proc/net/dev to determine the system's MAC address and compares this with an encrypted license file to decided whether or not the system is licenced to run the software.

[snip]

> 
> Can anyone think of a reason for this? It ought to look something like this (from a Debian Squeeze system):
> 
> andy at tornado:~$ cat /proc/net/dev
> Inter-|   Receive                                                | Transmit
> face |bytes    packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
>    lo:79938338  564655    0    0    0     0          0         0 79938338 564655    0    0    0     0       0          0
>  eth0:4743228657 6582199    0    0    0     0          0    224017 558374203 2678846    0    0    0     0       0          0
>  pan0:       0       0    0    0    0     0          0         0        0 0    0    0    0     0       0          0
> 

I don't see a MAC address there. However, I'd be tempted to fake it out and create a file with the contents it
expects at that location (as you presumably don't linprocfs for anything else)

- Mark