What are the pros' and cons' for Cisco smart licensing vs Cisco classic licensing?
Cisco's licensing wasn't complicated enough? Oy...
so far the con I found is that each device needs to be connected to the internet so it can contact cisco licensing servers. if you have devices that are in a vacuum or in a SCIF, SOoL
What port does a device need to connect to a licensing server?
Quote from: deanwebb on September 28, 2017, 12:10:39 PM
What port does a device need to connect to a licensing server?
I think it's 8305. but don't quote me on that.
8305 is the port used to communicate between SFR module and FMC. I had to put a Riverbed passthrough rule in for this traffic in both directions (syn in both directions) so that I could deploy the policy successfully.
I steered away from smart licensing but they were emailing me multiple times per day, any time of the night to remind me I hadn't completed the sign up. They're really pushing for it and I'm not sure why. When a vendor / company pushes that hard for something, it's not normally a good thing.