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The hostid of a computer is derived from the physical address of a network card if one is present, otherwise it is derived from the hard disk serial number.

The simplest way to find the hostid of a computer that has FLEXlm software installed is to open an MS-DOS window and issue the command:

This command returns the hostid based on the physical address of a network card if one is present, otherwise based on the hard disk serial number.

An alternative way to find the physical address of a network card is to issue the command:

The hostid is the Physical Address string with all the hyphens removed.

A lap-top computer might use different network cards when docked and undocked. In that case, use its hard disk serial number as its hostid to allow use of ADS at all times (see Hard disk serial number).