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

[Guntis Bumburs]

No, the registration utility is taken from: 
ftp://ftp.digium.com/pub/asterisk/g729/unsupported/register_utility/freebsd-5.2.1/
I also check the containing of binary and there was a lot of FreeBSD 
mentioned.

for testing i also tried
linux binaries but they don't work
output:
_______
ELF binary type "0" not known.
Exec format error. Binary file not executable
______

1. ok, a little cheat to change the binary type:
brandelf -t FreeBSD ./register32
brandelf -t FreeBSD ./register64

then the output for is:
_____
Bad system call (core dumped)
_____

It's very unlikely for linux binary to work because linux has different 
MIB naming and if the binary greps some info from ifconfig, the output 
is little diferent from FreeBSD. I have encountered such situations with 
other commercial software


Aaron Seelye wrote:
> 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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