I ran into this some years back. At that time FW-1 was computing internal hosts two completely different ways.
The first was by calculating from the IP settings on your NICs the number of hosts possible. This was the calculation that set off the message in the OS Event Log. I checked this by creating a whole new box, never connected to the LAN, so it could never see any actual hosts, and sure enough, it placed the warning in the Event Log that there were too many internal hosts. The second method involved FW-1 actually keeping track of and counting the IPs it detected sending packets through its internal NICs. I did not get into trouble with that calculation, because, like you, I had fewer internal hosts than my license allowed. It was my understanding at the time that if FW-1 did detect too many real hosts, it would do something bad, like stop further connections, or block outgoing packets, or some such. If this is still the case, you are being caught by the first calculation, and have no need to worry. Hope this helps. Ed Greenman -----Original Message----- From: Mailing list for discussion of Firewall-1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chanoine Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 9:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [FW-1] Checkpoint licence : Count unique internal hosts Hello, I'm having some licence problems with my checkpoint NG55 AI. I have a licence for 500 internal users. I have no more than ~400 unique nodes in my network. Those nodes are : - servers - workstations - printers I have a message in the event manager of the Win2k server running checkpoint saying that my licence only accepts 500 internal users and that I am over this limit. How can it be, and how can I troubleshoot this? Thanks! Yannick ================================================= To set vacation, Out-Of-Office, or away messages, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the BODY of the email add: set fw-1-mailinglist nomail ================================================= To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================= If you have any questions on how to change your subscription options, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================= ================================================= To set vacation, Out-Of-Office, or away messages, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the BODY of the email add: set fw-1-mailinglist nomail ================================================= To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================= If you have any questions on how to change your subscription options, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================================
