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bob1697216-Jun-06 6:56
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I tried using the MAC and other various hardware signatures like the motherboard serial, bios serial, MAC Address to license my products but I found the MAC address reported is not always consistent. At first I thought it was laptop mac addresses reporting differently because of the transition to wireless/hard wired nics but I found some of the pc's were reporting different MAC addresses as well. I verified that the MAC addresses were indeed the item causing the trouble and verified that the hardware had not been changed out.

I have since ceased using the MAC address for product licensing and the problem has gone away. I would recommend using other hardware signatures and use as many as possible as some Bios serial numbers, motherboard serials, etc... still come back with empty strings or generic strings like "..Empty", "..None", "N/A", etc...

I would strongly discourage using the MAC as it only leads to embarassment down the road after your product is deployed and the customers are complaining your licenses are no longer valid.

For what it's worth...
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