[Virtualacorn-list] VA and ROOL 5.nn

[Dave Symes]

In article <mpro.mt2f6700578iq02bw at wingsandbeaks.org.uk.invalid>,
   Jeremy Nicoll - ml virtualacorn <jn.ml.vac.83 at wingsandbeaks.org.uk>
wrote:
> "David J. Ruck" <druck at druck.org.uk> wrote:

> >VRPC can be broken by any changes to networking which alters the
> >enumeration order, such as adding a network card or turning on
> >bluetooth.

> Doesn't that mean that you can work around this by, say, getting a VRPC
> licence that matches something very unlikely to change - eg Bluetooth -
> turning that on just before starting VRPC then turning it off again once
> the emulated machine has got going?  Presumably VRPC doesn't keep
> checking that the network connection that's being used matches the
> authentication one? 

> I'm fairly sure I remember using VRPC on a laptop, sometimes with Wifi
> and sometimes a wired connection.  

Yes as Chris points out, if you have everything switched on... But as I
went on to comment, if your use of VRPC goes back many years, it'll have
been installed and registered before Bluetooth or WiFi was on machines.
I know it's only my more recent machines that have both of those.

A few years ago the network card on my VRPC installed machine started
giving trouble, so I switched it off (So to speak) VRPC wouldn't work
thereafter, kept asking for an authentication code, until I switched the
errant card back on.

Dave

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