Re: [cobalt-users] [Qube3] Adaptive Firewall license problems

[Lyle Scheer <lyle.scheer@xxxxxxx>]

Parker Morse wrote:

> Lyle suggested:
> > Parker Morse wrote:
> [snip]
> >> well enough so far, but I've run into a different problem. Sun's online
> >> licensing system is tied to the MAC address of eth0, assuming that is your
> >> port to the world. Our Qube, for reasons only my predecessors know, has our
> >> LAN on eth0, and the internet on eth1.
> >>
> >> So the Qube tries to license the MAC address that's looking at the LAN, but
> >> can't, evidently because that's not the address contacting Sun. Hence no
> >> license, hence no firewall.
>
> > It does not contact Sun.  It just looks at the MAC address of eth0 to verify
> > it is on the right piece of hardware.  You should have generated a key based
> > on the eth0 MAC address.  It doesn't matter at all which network is connected
> > to wherever....
>
> Well, that's my problem: I'm unable to generate any key, at all, based on
> either MAC address. I'll admit that the eth0/eth1 "reversal" may not be the
> actual cause; that's just been my best guess. Here's what happens: I start
> the firewall. It prompts for my passphrase, which I give it. Then it says,
> "A valid license key was not detected. Firewall disabled. For a license key,
> contact Cobalt Networks at [URL]. Would you like to open this address in
> another window?" (I'm paraphrasing this, as I don't have the error in front
> of me.) I click yes, and it opens another window, which produces a "500
> Internal Server Error" at the URL
> <https://licenses.cobalt.com/cgi-bin/license.cgi?macaddr=> where the = is
> followed by the MAC address of my eth0.
>
> I suppose the other alternative is that licenses.cobalt.com has tanked?

Bingo.  I haven't heard an ETA yet on re-issue of the server, but the server is
indeed down.

Contact me offline with the MAC address of your eth0 and I'll generate a key for
you.  Luckily I just went down this path myself (setting up a home network with a
Qube 3 with the Qube in the garage with an adaptive firewall to a Starband 360
satellite modem running Starband's proxy software under wine (windows emulator)
and an Orinoco Gold 803.11 wireless card in the PCI slot so I don't have to wire
the house.... haven't gotten it all running yet, and am having issues with the
wireless (it's up, but no packets appear to be getting to eth2)  The firewall was
the easy part ;-))

- Lyle