Ok. I have a home network. It includes networked devices that are not computers including a printer, ethernet hard drive and a Wireless Access Point. These devices are being registered as "Properly Licensed" taking up one of the 5 computers allowed. We have 4 computers but having the Z100G "license" some of the devices that never need to access the Internet means that some computers cannot.
How do I tell the Z100G that these devices are not to be licensed? I have already tried a rule that blocks those IP addresses to no avail.
Originally posted by KBR: Ok. I have a home network. It includes networked devices that are not computers including a printer, ethernet hard drive and a Wireless Access Point. These devices are being registered as "Properly Licensed" taking up one of the 5 computers allowed. We have 4 computers but having the Z100G "license" some of the devices that never need to access the Internet means that some computers cannot.
How do I tell the Z100G that these devices are not to be licensed? I have already tried a rule that blocks those IP addresses to no avail.
Any device/node/host that is being accessed from an external network (i.e. WLAN/Internet) or is accessing an external network is counted as a node. This cannot be currently controlled.
Thanks for the reply. I hope that there will soon be a solution to this problem of devices taking licenses but not actually needing them. Either more licenses, as some have suggested, or a way to block any devices from being "licensed" or both. Any one of these would be the permanent solution.
The one device that I really wanted to block would not accept no subnet mask. However I could give it a gateway address that is something other than the one that points at the Z100G firewall. that seems to have worked.
How long does it take the Z100G to realize a node has been shutdown so that some other node can become active? Is this timeout setting user adjustable? Is there any way to force the Z100G to reconfigure the network other than Setup > Restart?
Any device/node/host that is being accessed from an external network (i.e. WLAN/Internet) or is accessing an external network is counted as a node. This cannot be currently controlled.[/QUOTE]
So when I install my two Netgear SC101 storage devices that consume about 6 IP addresses each (one per physical drive, plus one per drive letter), they will just bring this whole soution to it's knees?
I was not aware I would be unable to tell this unit the difference between my 3 network Printers (they don't support USB) and these two Netgear SC101 devices - the 15 device limit would not fit my needs - even though I only have 3 home computers and 2 business laptops.
I hope there is something in the works to address this issue.
Erez.. I can see this as a major problem with the ZA router.. I know one of my next purchases was going to actually be a Netgear SC101 Turbo (vs the regular IDE version, with 6 ip addresses for each box... this is not good)... The licensing issue is gonna come back and bite everyone... There really is not a reason for these storage arrays to appear on the internet but they will grab licenses... Its like a ethernet printer taking an unneeded .. Thinking the ZA needs device classifications... and being able to force devices to the intranet only.. thats actually a good security trick too)
Originally posted by bugeek: ...I know one of my next purchases was going to actually be a Netgear SC101 Turbo...
I know this is a little off-topic, but please look before you leap on that SC101 Turbo ... I have the original SC101, and it is a real turkey. You are likely to be happier with a true NAS device, which can be had for about the same price.
I added the ethernet hard disk that was taking the license as a Network Object and set it to get the same IP address each time. I then added a rule that blocked that object from communicating with anything and set the rule to log access attempts. So far it has worked and the log reflects attempts to connect. It does appear in the list of objects on the network but the color indicates it is not taking a license.
