Internal DNSGreetings
As many IPs as the firewall sees, it will count. If it ONLY ever sees the
virtual IP, including broadcasts, netbios traffic, etc, it will only count
the one IP. Conversely, if it sees broadcasts or whatever from the
individual boxes, it counts them both (as well as the virtual IP.)
Consider also that you're probably *technically* violating CP's licensing
agreement if you manage to hide multiple machines behind one IP. I think
their reasoning is that the firewall IS protecting multiple machines,
whether they need it or not. So it counts them. Anyhow, I'm no license
expert; I could be wrong.
Keeping in mind that I'm no license expert, I am fairly certain that you
cannot combine multiple 25-host licenses to increase your host count. Do
you have multiple 25-host licenses tied to the same IP? You can always try
adding all the licenses, nailing the FW internally w/ a bunch of spoofed
source packets, and seeing when it starts yelling at you about licenses and
hosts and stuff (on a non-NT box you should see something in
/var/adm/messages or equiv, on NT I'm not sure where they wind up going... )
Kind regards
jakevil
----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Lundy
To: 'Alan May' ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 11:35 AM
Subject: [FW1] 2 more licensing questions
In a server farm, how are licenses counted? In other words, if I have 2 web
servers, loadbalanced, each server has an IP and the the load balancing
throws in a virtual IP. So is that 3 licenses or 2?
Can VIG licenses be combined? In other words, can I take 3 25 licenses and
combine them on a single box for a 75?
Thanks
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