"pulse301"
Thinking about it more (thanks to James), you'll probably be able to do this
with straight TCP. The only problem you might have, which you won't know
without trying, is if VMWare is going to pass the right info to Win2K for
FlexLM to work properly.
I also believe that the heartbeat is at intervals of 6 minutes and even if
everyone connected at exactly the same time down to the nanosecond (very
unlikely) and their clocks were all 100% precise (not possible, esspecially
with PC clocks), some of them might get a message that autocad was closing
down, but I think that the heartbeat would try to connect again in the next
6 minutes. Basically you have 12 minutes before AutoCAD will shutdown, I
think..... 😉 I think you have one 6 minute interval for autocad to see
that it can't connect, then you have another 6 minute interval for it to try
again and if it can't then it shutsdown (much like DCHP clients trying to
renew their IP lease).
I also believe that UDP is installed with the TCP/IP suite, but if you don't
need it, I wouldn't use it as TCP is much more reliable if you have to
establish a connection.
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Kevin Nehls
"pulse301" wrote in message
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> Well now that is very interesting. James, are you sure you weren't using
UDP on the workstation? Also, I believe it is nearly mpossible not to break
the EULA on Windows 2000 in a corporate environment. They say you can't run
any server software on a 2000 pro, only on 2000 server. But most companies
use PC Anywhere or VNC that runa server on the machine. We're not going to
break the Eula on Windows 2000, but it is a touchy subject.
> The heartbeat is sent out every 4 minutes, right? So unless 11 people
started Autocad at the exact same time, the connection problem should never
be a problem, right? Also, isn't UDP included in the TCP/IP suite, so in
actuality I won't have to install a new protocol if we have to go with UDP?
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