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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

Dear Dave,

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Start lmtools, select the server, click the server status tab, and click "Perform status enquiry". If you don't know what I'm talking about, then read the FlexLM manuals.

Your license file should have a line like:

SERVER fred 001122334455 1717

i.e., SERVER <machine name> <MAC address> <server port number>

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I understood your instruction and got the port number:

Status

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Flexible License Manager status on Sat 4/14/2012 01:30

[Detecting lmgrd processes...]

License server status: 27000@MAINSERVER

License file(s) on MAINSERVER: C:\altera\Licenses\License_2012_03_16.dat:

The client could ping to the MAINSERVER. But when I change the LM_LICENSE_FILE to 27000@MAINSERVER and open Quartus, still it cannot be licensed. What else should I check?

Thanks.