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13 years ago

How to setup floating license for a client PC?

I have a floating license for Altera software including Quartus II, Modelsim SE, Nios II. I setup a license server successfully according to instruction from http://www.altera.com/literature/manual/q...
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13 years ago

Thanks Dave,

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For Modelsim-SE, usually you'd setup the main server with the floating licenses using FlexLM, and then specify the license server on the client machines, eg., if the server machine is 'fred', and 'bob' is a client, then 'bob' will have the environment variable

LM_LICENSE_FILE = 1717@fred

Where 1717 is the license server port number on 'fred'. The LM_LICENSE_FILE variable can be a comma separated list of servers.

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I used FlexLM to setup the server with the generated license file that contains license for all software. And this works well on the server. You said this is for Modelsim SE, my question is that is it ok to combine all license products in one license file when setting up server with FlexLM?

Is the port number optional or it must be set? If I must provide, what is the proper one and how can I get that?

How can the client 'bob' search for license file stored in the server 'fred'? how to make 'bob' recognized the relationship between 'fred' and him?

Thank you.