pfSense+ on WatchGuard M270 - same NDI on all boxes
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Hi, after testing for a while a Firebox M270 we decided to go in production with 2 of these box in HA. While I managed to buy the licenses I noted that both NDI are the same. Is there a way to re-generate a proper unique NDI in order to properly license them?
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Just some thoughts :
If some one knew how the NDI was created (see Netgate Device ID (NDI)) you would have your answer right away, as it would be documented. Guess what, AFAIK : it isn't - for 'reasons ^^'.
( adding a NIC or USB NIC will change the NDI ... but when you remove it, it will change again / go back )I guess your Firebox M270 have the same disks, ram, processor, BIOS info etc etc. That would explain : same NDI.
What will be different is : the interfaces MAC addresses of all interfaces, to name one, so maybe this info isn't used ?What might do the trick : change one of the drives ?
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Oh that's interesting. Yeah the M270 is kinda special in a few ways! Can you send me the NDI in chat and I'll check it.
Steve
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Thanks all for the quick reply. Yes, the M270 is quite interesting. It shows the same MACs for ix0 and ix1 on all devices I have here (three).
For the first one I asked for an evaluation registration and now we need to put the other two (HA) in production.
Here is the issue: how to buy these two licenses having the same NDI in all 3.
P.S.: Just for info, as a side effect of having the same MAC for ix0 and ix1 on all devices I had to ovverride in the GUI the default MAC in order to properly handle the L2 traffic on real Ports 0..7. -
Yup, that's a problem. Interestingly it clearly isn't the same as the one I have though as I was able to register that separately. The one I have does not have the same MAC on ix0 and ix1. Neither is a WatchGuard MAC though.
Can you send me the NDI and ifconfig output in chat?
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@stephenw10 Done.
