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Lloyd Dupont

I have an application which could be put on many PPC at a time.
However we have a per PPC licence.

How would you do that ?

I was thinking to do some UDP broadcasting regularly and listen for packet.
However my application is not a server and doesn't reserve a port for
itself.

So I have to reserve a random undocumented port for the need of licence
only, my first attempt unluckily choose an already used port and I'm a bit
afraid I could used used an important port for the client.

Any idea on how I could do that ? How you do it yourself ?
 
You could require a license on each device that uses the serial ID in some
manner. For example, when the app is installed, it require a connection to
your server in order to get a license to finish the installation. The
registration could require an account number and the serial number and
return a hash of the two.

I wouldn't recommend requiring an Internet connection for your app unless it
absolutely must have an Internet connection to perform its business logic.
 
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