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setting up two UTM instances to overcome license.

DavisDarvish
i was wondering if anyone has sucessfully deployed two sophos UTM instances in virtual machines w/ the free 50 ip license in order to overcome going over license limit. If so how did you design your network topology? also is there anyway to put certain IP addresses out of the scope of the UTM such that they don't count towards the license? i would only require simple routing to those ips not content filtering or anything else..


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    How much money did you willingly spend to acquire devices that consume more than 50 IP addresses in your home?  

    Each of your cell phones probably cost more than one commercial license for UTM.   

    Do you have any sense of obligation to the people who work hard to keep those 50+ devices away from the bad guys?

    Consumers, both business and residential, always want a deal, but we also need our suppliers to stay in business.

    Treat Sophos fairly.   They could drop the home license program in a heartbeat and be none the worse for it.

    For the record, it seems foolish to ask how to violate a contract in a public forum, especially, the public forum of the people whose contract you want to violate.

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    To be clear, my intent wasn't to violate any agreement, but rather understand how to work within Sophos UTM's 50 IP limit for home use.  I certainly wouldn't have been opposed to paying for additional IPs for the home license though I understand that isn't an option.  Regardless it was a bit peculiar that Sophos UTM was reporting > 50 active IPs within my network when I have fewer than 35, many with static IPs.  Only using IPv4 w/ IPv6 disabled).

    Have since attempted to setup and configure the latest Sophos XG Home v17 platform without success.  I simply found it too cumbersome to configure and operate relative to UTM.

    At this point, have moved over to Untangle NG HomePro license (no IP limit) and confirmed my active IP quantity to be 33 as suspected.  This is with all devices (home and guest) operating simultaneously.  While I didn't like it quite as much as UTM 9 upon install, it's addressed my concerns and the UI and capabilities are growing on me.

    Would recommend Untangle v13 NG HomePro license ($50/yr) as a viable alternative to Sophos UTM 9 Home.

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  • 0 in reply to DouglasFoster

    To be clear, my intent wasn't to violate any agreement, but rather understand how to work within Sophos UTM's 50 IP limit for home use.  I certainly wouldn't have been opposed to paying for additional IPs for the home license though I understand that isn't an option.  Regardless it was a bit peculiar that Sophos UTM was reporting > 50 active IPs within my network when I have fewer than 35, many with static IPs.  Only using IPv4 w/ IPv6 disabled).

    Have since attempted to setup and configure the latest Sophos XG Home v17 platform without success.  I simply found it too cumbersome to configure and operate relative to UTM.

    At this point, have moved over to Untangle NG HomePro license (no IP limit) and confirmed my active IP quantity to be 33 as suspected.  This is with all devices (home and guest) operating simultaneously.  While I didn't like it quite as much as UTM 9 upon install, it's addressed my concerns and the UI and capabilities are growing on me.

    Would recommend Untangle v13 NG HomePro license ($50/yr) as a viable alternative to Sophos UTM 9 Home.

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