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50 User Limit and ipv6 Privacy Addresses

I am running the free for home use 50 user version of the firewall and I have 12 devices on my network. I am recieving emails that I have breached the 50 user limit. The problem is that it appears to be counting based on IP address. Each machine that supports ipv6 is dual stacked and using privacy addresses so they have many numbers of addresses.

Is there another way to accomplish this maybe MAC Address?

Thanks!

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0 danyork over 11 years ago

Here's a post that talks more about IPv6 temporary addresses in Linux:

IPv6 temporary addresses and privacy extensions « ipsidixit.net

Note the point about the lifetime of temporary addresses. When a new temporary IPv6 address is generated the operating system starts to use it immediately, but keeps the older temporary IPv6 address around as "deprecated" to deal with existing connections.

[As a side note, if any Sophos developers need someone to test a fix for this licensing mechanism on an IPv6 network, I'd be glad to do so.]
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0 danyork over 11 years ago

Here's a post that talks more about IPv6 temporary addresses in Linux:

IPv6 temporary addresses and privacy extensions « ipsidixit.net

Note the point about the lifetime of temporary addresses. When a new temporary IPv6 address is generated the operating system starts to use it immediately, but keeps the older temporary IPv6 address around as "deprecated" to deal with existing connections.

[As a side note, if any Sophos developers need someone to test a fix for this licensing mechanism on an IPv6 network, I'd be glad to do so.]
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