Licensing Question

[chasty]

Hello, I'm looking at purchasing WinGate VPN and have a question about licensing.

We have two offices, one in Santa Fe and one in Dallas. I have 3 machines in Santa Fe that need to access the SQL server in Dallas (there are actually 12 machines there). Would I purchase one 1 user license and a 3 user license and a 3 user license?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Curtis

[MattP]

Hi Curtis,

You need one license seat for the server and then one license seat for each machine behind the server that needs to use the VPN. So if one of your machines in Santa Fe is going to be the VPN node then you can use a 3 user license. If you have 3 machines that are behind the VPN node then you'd need a 6 user license.

The same goes for the Dallas end, if it's just the SQL server that is going to host the VPN and none of the 11 other machines need to access the VPN then you can just have a one user license, however if the SQL server is behind the VPN host then you'll need a 3 user license.

WinGate licenses are based on concurrent connections, so if every machine does not need to access the VPN at the same time then you can get away with having a fewer number of seats.

I hope this makes sense, just let us know if you have any further questions.

Matt

[chasty]

That makes sense. I tested the software and it works really well. It also is very easy to setup. I really like it since it allows you to use only one NIC on each machine as opposed to the two on each machine that Windows 2003 requires.

Thanks again,
Curtis Hasty