RE: [FW1] License Question

["Gaughan, Daniel" <DGaughan@FW1-NOSPAMdcmde.dcma.mil>]

No, that refers to the interface used as the host object definition. Not the
license. The licensed interface is irrelevant.

Daniel Gaughan

-----Original Message-----
From: Cameron L Palmer [mailto:palmerc@seagate.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 1:42 PM
To: Gaughan, Daniel; David.R.Oslager@BakerNet.com; dlambert@parcar.com;
fw-1-mailinglist@lists.us.checkpoint.com
Subject: Re: [FW1] License Question


You may encounter problems when you use VPN functionality if you don't use
the external interface.

cameron.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gaughan, Daniel" <DGaughan@dcmde.dcma.mil>
To: <David.R.Oslager@BakerNet.com>; <dlambert@parcar.com>;
<fw-1-mailinglist@lists.us.checkpoint.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 09:51
Subject: RE: [FW1] License Question


>
> Then why don't you just license the internal side. Since you can maintain
> your network setting regardless of external addressing, this will allow
you
> to move the firewall without changing the license. Contrary to some
> expectations the license does not have to be the external interface and it
> is irrelevant to the Firewall object's defined host address, which may
very
> well be the external interface depending on the situation.
>
> I have defined internal firewalls with a private network scheme, so I know
> this is possible. (I would just write up the rationale in the license
> request comment block to tell checkpoint what you are up to.) I also have
> firewalls with internal addresses licensed, so I know that is also
possible.
> I have never tried a loopback interface.
>
> I would licnese you internal and that way you can just change the
> ruleset/interface properties.
>
> Daniel Gaughan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David.R.Oslager@BakerNet.com [mailto:David.R.Oslager@BakerNet.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 12:35 PM
> To: dlambert@parcar.com; fw-1-mailinglist@lists.us.checkpoint.com
> Subject: RE: [FW1] License Question
>
>
> well...that's kinda where I'm going with that. I'm not trying to bypass
the
> process. I have a FW that we send out to meetings a few times a year in
> different hotels around the world. We get internet access from the local
> hotel, but, with every hotel, the IP address changes. I would like to put
> the original license to a loopback so that FW will be licensed, but the
> Interfaces will have different IP addresses with each hotel.
>
> Thanks all for your replies. I guess the easiest way to do this is to test
> in the lab. I'll try it and see if it works. I was hoping someone might
have
> already invented this wheel....
>
> Thanks again.
>
>
>
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