Hi, I have been working on getting an application up and running on Amazon's EC2 cloud infrastructure. Most everything has gone quite well. I am running a 4D 2004 Application on a Windows 2003 Server AMI. I am using a medium CPU instance which seems to handle the load quite well. The application has an active 4D component and I am having difficulty getting the licensing to work.
EC2 uses something called Elastic IP addresses (for those that don't know). These are semi-permanant addresses that are publicly accessible (routable) on the net. Now that I have gotten into it a bit I now understand that they use a 1-to-1 NAT arrangement. They map the public IP to a private IP given to the machine at boot time. This acts as a firewall as well, preventing all traffic through except what you specifically allow. The net result is that the machine has one IP (which will not remain static if the instance is rebooted), while the elastic IP is static. I'm wondering if there might be a solution to this from a licensing perspective. I am not sure what it would be but my guess is that this may be a growing need over time. Thoughts from anyone on this? Thanks Wes -- Wesley Rosner President Blue Fox, Inc. P.O. Box 466 Shelburne Falls, MA 01370 413.625.2199 x1001 (Work) 413.575.4848 (Mobile) [email protected] www.blue-fox.com "I.T. That Works" _______________________________________________ Active4D-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/mailman/listinfo/active4d-dev Archives: http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/archive/active4d-dev/
