[asterisk-users] What can make G.729a codec hostid change?

[Barry Miller]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 04:02:29AM -0700, Kyle Kienapfel wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Barry Miller <asterisk-users at notanet.net>wrote:
> 
> > After upgrading my small test system from Debian Etch->Lenny via a
> > complete reinstall, I find my g729 hostid has changed.  Same machine,
> > same CPU, same NIC!  It doesn't seem reasonable that I have to burn
> > my one "no-hassle" re-registration for a simple OS upgrade.
> >
> > The README only says that hostid is based on MAC addresses of all NICs,
> > but that doesn't seem to be true.  Does anyone know anything else that
> > might cause g729 to compute a different hostid?
> 
> Just one nic? I don't know much about licensing but I do know that if you
> swap ethN assignments on network cards the hostid changes.

Yes.  Just the lone integrated NIC that's always been there.  NO hardware
changes.  Still eth0 with the same MAC address.

-- 
Barry