This may seem like a bit of an odd question and honestly might not make any sense from a networking perspective. Basically, I have a remote box (Windows 7) with Expensive Commercial Enterprise Software on it that I want to VPN into with wireguard.
So, I installed Wireguard onto it, and was able to remote in easily. However, as soon as I installed Wireguard, the Expensive Commercial Enterprise Software stopped working. After much angst, I figured out the problem:
Expensive Commercial Enterprise Software uses FlexNet DRM to enforce licenses, and FlexNet scans all the network interfaces and collects the MAC addresses to create a "fingerprint" of the system. But if there's a wireguard interface (with an empty mac address), FlexNet hangs/crashes when it tries to fingerprint the system.
Any way to workaround this or am I SOL?
Without wireguard:
$ ./lmutil.exe lmhostid
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The FLEXnet host ID of this machine is "989036e152c5"
With wireguard:
$ ./lmutil.exe lmhostid
(hangs indefinitely)