Drive Serial Number Problem

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013, Richard Kreiss wrote:
>Top Post;

>You could also us the MAC address of the computers NIC.  This may be a
>better solution the using the drive serial # if booting form different
>drives.

>There are pro and cons to using the NIC.  You can always put the old NIC
>into a new computer.   Downside, if the NIC goes, you will need to get a
>new license.  But that the same as if you hard drive goes.

>There are some programs out there that will allow you to change a drives
>serial number.

I think there are tools to change the Mac address of a NIC, at
least when running in a KVM/xen or VMware Virtual Machine.

Bill
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