At home I have the following:
3 desktops
1 notebook connecting via access point
1 adsl modem (inside the lan providing pppoe access to desktops)
1 d-link set-top media player
1 network printer adaptor
1 linux server
2 spare pcs i use for experimentation.
and, last but not least, a toshiba magnia sg20 server running astaro v5, with 2 NICs and a prism pcmcia wifi card. It connects via pppoe to the dsl modem and delivers to the other machines a private 255 ip network and 8 public IPs DNAT-ed to different machines.
Yet, according to astaro, I'm using 14 licenses.
Does this have something to do with the different NIC cards i use? how does astaro measure clients? by MAC address, by IP count, or some other way?
If I, for example, set the def. router on the print server to an IP other than that of the astaro (or leave it blank), does that mean it wont see it as a client?
At work I operate a 100 client license with about 85 PCs, servers and network printers, yet the usage is never reported as being more than 20 at peak time.
Sometimes, I might bring a friends notebook to run some updates. If it gets registered as a client, how can I un-register it since it wont ever be connected again? Is there a specific time period after which the MAC (or whatever) is no longer consuming a license?
And, if I re-install astaro and use the backup file, will that reset the connected clients to the ones currently connected or will the others still be registered??
I'm trying to understand how it works but I can't figure it out...
Is there someplace where I can see what those 14 machines are?
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