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Old 2007-11-29
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Default Re: fw lichosts

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Originally Posted by Danielpb View Post
Wonder if someone might she some light on the results I see when running this command.

The results are well over the limit of the Licence installed, how ever allot of the host's are from 2005 etc. any idea why this is.

This is a recurring issue in many CP related fora. The problem is that the firewall keeps track of all internal hosts (i.e. machines behind internal interfaces) in its hosts table, for an indefinite period of time. For one reason or another, this number keeps growing, even though there aren't that many different IPs in use, but over a longer period of time (like in your case, since 2005), this is of course an issue.

The explanation on how to clear the tables is give in another thread:
Clear LicHosts

There seems to be no other solution to this problem besides regularly clearing this table. I found that rebooting the firewalls in a cluster after clearing the tables is advisable - otherwise they seem to go beserk...

Good luck!
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