changing floating license port speeds compile

Here is the result of that;

C:\Windows\system32>lmutil lmstat -a -c 1819[at]ourlicenseserver.cornell.edu lmutil - Copyright (c) 1989-2006 Macrovision Europe Ltd. and/or Macrovision Corp

oration. All Rights Reserved.

Flexible License Manager status on Wed 10/19/2011 10:11

[Detecting lmgrd processes...]

License server status: 1819[at]EN-LICSRV

License file(s) on EN-LICSRV: 1819[at]ourlicenseserver.cornell.edu :

lmgrd is not running: License server machine is down or not responding. (-96,7:1

1001 "WinSock: Host not found (HOST_NOT_FOUND)")

Any ideas?

The problem comes when students change this port (see below), then ModelSim does not work;

Prof.,

After some digging around, it seems that editing the license file prevents quartus from long delays before it will compile. (Perhaps it tries to ping the wrong server at first?)

I opened up

c:\altera\license.dat

in a text editor and changed the last number on the first line from 1819 to 1820

The file now reads:

>

SERVER licsrv.engineering.cornell.edu 00505694574A 1820

USE_SERVER

>

This seems to have shaved a full minute off the compile time (a factor of 2 speedup for the last project)

Choon Lee,

We found the answer. Change the license.dat on the client computer to point to port 1820 (for Quartus compile speedup) . Then, change the ENV variable on the client computer to point to port 1819 (for ModelSim license). Compile speeds are down to ~30 seconds, and ModelSim can find it's license. All works fine now.

Thank you,

Doug

License.dat file;

SERVER [license.server.name] [MAC address of license svr] 1820

USE_SERVER

MGLS_LICENSE_FILE;

1819[at-sign][license.server.name]