Re: Sonicwall SOHO DHCP problem
From: Bill Somerville (bsomerville@toad.net)Date: 04/10/02
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From: "Bill Somerville" <bsomerville@toad.net> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 23:47:49 -0400
SonicWALL keeps track of IP addresses that access the Internet on a first
come, first served basis. That includes not only DHCP clients, but also
static clients (e.g. servers). You can see who has grabbed licenses by
doing a tech support report (Tools / Diagnostic / Tech Support Report).
Scroll down to the "License info" section. They should expose this
information somewhere in the UI, rather than just a count.
They generally recommend that you exclude (via rules) any clients (or
servers) who you don't want to consume a license by adding a Deny rule for
WAN access for each IP address (or range) you don't want to consume a
license.
One way to exclude certain DHCP clients is to assign those clients static
addresses and exclude those static addresses.
Or, put everyone behind another NAT router to save on licenses. :-)
-- Bill
"nobody you know" <nobodythere@anywhereyoulook.com> wrote in message
news:es02buk85ceu493p3fgs91irq3j673hqo6@4ax.com...
> I'm running firmware release 5.1.7.0 (the most recent - and evidently
> the last ever) on my Sonicwall SOHO. There is a problem with the DHCP
> server which is annoying but not crippling. No matter what value I
> set the "lease time" setting to, it doesn't seem to drop non-connected
> systems after the lease time has expired and keep a correct count of
> leases in place - but he data box which has the listing of current
> DHCP leases seems to be accurate.
>
> That is, when I click on the DHCP "status" tab, the count of current
> DHCP leases doesn't match the detail listing of the leases (e.g.
> number of current leases = 10 but only 4 actual leases are shown).
> This is a real annoyance because I have people connecting to and from
> the network and run out of "allowed" connections while still having
> only a small number of actual systems connected. The only way to get
> it to count leases correctly is to restart the unit.
>
> Anybody have a clue what (if anything) I'm doing wrong? Or is this a
> known problem?
>
> TIA
>
>
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