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Subject: Re: FireWall-1 licensing
From: bheiser @ individual . com (Bill Heiser)
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 10:44:18 -0500 (EST)
To: chris . brenton @ newsedge . com
Cc: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <9511091752 . AA17400 @ avalon . newsedge . com> from "chris brenton" at Nov 9, 95 05:52:21 pm

chris brenton wrote this:
> 
> 
>The other bug I've seen with this is that it checks may check both internal and
>_external_ hosts for license compliance. If the number of external sites visited
>exceeds your user license the software hangs and starts generating tons of mail
>to root (once a minute if memory serves) claiming you have violated the licence
>agreement.


How does this number-of-hosts licensing work?  Is it a certain number of
hosts per time period?  The number of simultaneous connections?

i.e. if I have 100 hosts at site Xyz, but I only care about allowing
50 of them to simultaneously access the Internet, can I get by with
just a 50-user license?  Or (in the extreme case) if I want to pipe
everything through an internal "bastion host" of sorts, can I get by
with just 1 license?


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