Re: [FW-1] Disaster Recovery Testing and Licenses

[Dyk, David]

Title: Disaster Recovery Testing and Licenses

Seems to me that you can request your licenses from checkpoint to be bound to, say, 10.90.90.1, assuming your internal networks were using the 192.168.0.0/24 networks, and then just create a loopback interface on the both your production network and your dr network firewalls.  Not sure how ethical it is, as you'd technically be installing the license to two servers, but I think it would work. -------------------------------------------------------- Dave Dyk CCNP, CCSE, MCSE, CNE City Of Portland, Bureau of Information Technology 1211 SW 5th Ave. Suite 1180 Portland, OR 97205 (503) 823-2692 - Voice (503) 823-9176 - Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------   -----Original Message----- From: Don Guyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 2:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [FW-1] Disaster Recovery Testing and Licenses   Hal,       I appreciate that bit of advice, but we already do that. I'm talking about walking into our DR vendors' building, facing a bare server and doing everything from scratch. The only thing I bring with me is the O/S, CP software and a copy of our rulebase & objects etc on floppy.   Thanks again, Don Guyer Information Systems Citadel Federal Credit Union [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 800.666.0191 x7072 Fax: 610.380.6083 -----Original Message----- From: Hal Dorsman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 5:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [FW-1] Disaster Recovery Testing and Licenses Keep a cold standby with the same IPs as your primary.  You can do simulated testing with a few hubs and laptops.  Do an after hours DR test by shutting down your primary, swap over your ethernet cables, and reboot your secondary (interfaces must be seen as active coming up or else the fw software will not bind to the interfaces). When your secondary is up and running and you are satisfied with results, switch them back.   Hal   Hal Dorsman Network Administrator Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Missoula, Montana USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (406)523-4576 -----Original Message----- From: Don Guyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 2:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FW-1] Disaster Recovery Testing and Licenses Hello everyone,         If anyone out there performs any kind of DR testing, how do you go about handling the license? Obviously, it is tied to a specific IP address, and this poses an issue when assigned a different IP at the DR testing facility. TIA! Don Guyer Information Systems Citadel Federal Credit Union [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 800.666.0191 x7072 Fax: 610.380.6083