pro/con cisco smart licensing vs classic licensing?

Started by icecream-guy, September 28, 2017, 07:32:38 AM

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icecream-guy

September 28, 2017, 07:32:38 AM
What are the pros' and cons' for Cisco smart licensing vs Cisco classic licensing?
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deanwebb

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September 28, 2017, 08:05:56 AM
Cisco's licensing wasn't complicated enough? Oy...
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icecream-guy

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September 28, 2017, 11:06:38 AM
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
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deanwebb

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September 28, 2017, 12:10:39 PM
What port does a device need to connect to a licensing server?
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
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Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

icecream-guy

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September 28, 2017, 01:58:04 PM
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.
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Dieselboy

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September 29, 2017, 12:04:00 AM
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.
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