Question regarding server licenses

[golson]

Hi there,

I have a network comprised of a number of machines and peripherals (printers, replaytv, etc) all with the IP addresses of the form 192.168.1.X. I am planning on setting up a wingate VPN server on this, and really only want a couple of machines on this to participate as VPN clients.

My question is if I buy a 3 license package, and only install the rip2 client on the VPN participant machines (2 clients), will keep the licensing happy? Or are the other peripherals, etc. going to count against the license even though they can never participate?

Many thanks,

--Greg

[jono659]

Unless I am very much mistaken peripherals don count just computers participating.

[golson]

Thanks a lot for the info, Jono.

In general, is there a way to specify VPN participants for a server? I also have a couple of laptops (my wife's) that are occassionally connected to the network, that will never want to participate in VPN. "Local Network" participation is the only level of granularity I see exposed in the server, and my guess is that is everything on the subnet...

Is there any way on the server to see how many local machines are currently participating in the VPN (not machines tunnelled in, machines on the LAN which server considers participants)?

I fear the only way to isolate participants may be via subnetting...

Cheers,

--Greg

[jono659]

Not actually being anything to do with the product (apart from using it) if my observations are correct that should be Ok, I have a 6 user licence on one of my networks and if occasionally any other machines join the network although they appear in the remote network they appear as unavailable. I am sure one of the Qbik boys will give you a definative answer on this, but I am fairly sure this is the case.

Regards

JonO