Locked out of Xara DP11 once again!

[Luke.Hart]

It could well be that it's the MAC address of the internet connection that is different and not the IP address. I very much don't think anyone would use the IP address as machine specific information, not least because 99.9% of machines will be in the same range.

[jaydear]

It could well be that it's the MAC address of the internet connection that is different and not the IP address. I very much don't think anyone would use the IP address as machine specific information, not least because 99.9% of machines will be in the same range.

It could very well be the mac address that's the problem. I'm not familiar enough with them to dig into that and test it. I know you can spoof a mac address in some modems and routers, but have not tried it. What happens for example if two things on a network have the same mac address? It's supposed to be unique. In any case we shouldn't need to hack/spoof mac addresses to make Xara's activation system work.

And just nitpicking here... The following list is from https://www.arin.net/knowledge/address_filters.html and I'm pretty sure I've also seen 192.169.0.0/xx

10.0.0.0/8 IP addresses: 10.0.0.0 -- 10.255.255.255.
172.16.0.0/12 IP addresses: 172.16.0.0 -- 172.31.255.255.
192.168.0.0/16 IP addresses: 192.168.0.0 – 192.168.255.255.

All I'm saying is that there are a lot of possible private IPs, and not one of them is the default for 99.9% of machines.

Over and out.