Appendix A - Hostids for FLEXlm-Supported MachinesTable of Contents * Index * Previous Chapter * Next Chapter 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 Numeric, 32-bit hostids are normally used in hexadecimal format. On some systems, including HP and SGI, the system command returns the number in decimal format. Since v3.0 of FLEXlm, a '#' before the hostid, indicates to FLEXlm that this is a decimal number. For example, if the HP uname -i command returns `2005771344', FLEXlm will accept `#2005771344'. Or it can be converted to hexadecimal. On Unix system, you can convert to hex with the following script: % echo 2005771344 16o p | dc 778DA450 A.1 Hostid Table
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