[Asterisk-bsd] Digium g.729 codec registration on FreeBSD 6.1

[Aaron Seelye]

Are you trying to use their linux binaries to register?  They make binaries 
for FBSD
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Guntis Bumburs" <guntis at rixtel.com>
To: <asterisk-bsd at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 10:25 AM
Subject: [Asterisk-bsd] Digium g.729 codec registration on FreeBSD 6.1


> Hello,
>
>    I have bought 30 & 10 pcs g.729 codec from Digium. 30 went to my SS7 
> box (Linux) with no problem.Also I have a FreeBSD machine as front 
> asterisk server and there i got the problem ....
>
> FreeBSD machine is a HP DL 380 G4 Dual Xeon server running amd64 kernel
>
> when i tried to run registration utility it complained about missing 32bit 
> libs (could be, because i have amd64)
>
> 1. had to rebuild the world using WITH_LIB32 in make.conf, to get the 
> /usr/lib32 needed for registration utility, also done some symlinks on 
> missing libs ... (ln -s libc.so.6 libc.so.5, e.t.c.)
> add this to rc.conf
> ldconfig32_paths="/usr/lib32
>
>
> now the registration utility works but it fails on Host-ID
>
> the output:
> _______________________
> Digium Product Registration
> Copyright (C) 2004, Digium, Inc.
>
> Please enter Key-ID: G729-xxxxxxxx
> Analyzing key 'G729-xxxxxxxx'
>
> Connecting to Digium License Server (216.207.245.3:5646)...OK
> Awaiting Response...OK
> Requesting status for 'G729-xxxxxxxx'...OK
>
>  Key-ID:  G729-xxxxxxxx
>  Product:  G.729 Codec
>  Channels:  10
>  Host-ID:  <Unregistered>
>
> Unable to determine hostid.  You must have at least one ethernet card
> _____________________
>
> good, the connection to digium is working and key is accepted.
> i have 2 nics :)
> in the registration utility readme file (for Linux) is said that first nic 
> always must be eth0 for registration to work
>
> 2. changed the name of first network interface
> add this to rc.conf
> ifconfig_bge0_name="eth0"
>
> still the same problem :(
>
> 3.kdump of ktrace ./register
> gave me:
> ___________________________________
> .............
>  3918 register RET   read 272/0x110
>  3918 register CALL  __sysctl(0xffffd8d0,0x6,0,0xffffd8cc,0,0)
>  3918 register RET   __sysctl 0
>  3918 register CALL  __sysctl(0xffffd8d0,0x6,0x80c7000,0xffffd8cc,0,0)
>  3918 register RET   __sysctl 0
>  3918 register CALL  write(0x2,0xffffd3f0,0x46)
>  3918 register GIO   fd 2 wrote 70 bytes
>       "Unable to determine hostid.  You must have at least one ethernet 
> card
>       "
>  3918 register RET   write 70/0x46
>  3918 register CALL  exit(0x1)
> ____________________________________
>
> Here i see that registration utility is using the sysctl to obtain my MAC 
> address  (Host-ID). But sysctl returns '0'
>
> MIB
> for Linux is usualy kernel.*
> for FreeBSD it's kern.*
>
> i.e.
> > sysctl kern.hostname
> kern.hostname: gw.example.com
>
> >sysctl kern.hostid
> kern.hostid: 0      (thats default for all my FreeBSD boxes)
>
> I have found some information in forums (i dont know if it's true) that 
> kern.hostid varible could be set to MAC address.
> kern.hostid type is integer and it's changeable like kern.hostname and few 
> others ...
>
>
> 3.  i converted my MAC from HEX to DEC and put this value to kern.hostid 
> (sysctl -w kern.hostid=123456...)
>
> still the same problem :(
>
> I have no more ideas left. I could only guess witch kern.variable the 
> registration utility is checking.
> For me it's beyond my scope of knowledge and DEAD-END.
>
> Many thanks for Any information or ideas how to solve this problem.
>
> info:
> ______________________________
> registration utility is taken from: 
> ftp://ftp.digium.com/pub/asterisk/g729/unsupported/register_utility/freebsd-5.2.1/
> Server Info:
> hw.machine: amd64
> hw.model: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz
> hw.ncpu: 4
> hw.machine_arch: amd64
> kern.ostype: FreeBSD
> kern.osrelease: 6.1-RELEASE-p7
> kern.osrevision: 199506
> kern.hostid: 0
> kern.posix1version: 200112
> kern.osreldate: 601000
> ______________________________
> Best Regards,
> Guntis Bumburs
>
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