license manager & firewall client

We have a strange situation here. We have several subnets in the office,
and from what I understand, each blocks UDP packets from the others. As a
result, a workstation in our office can only get a license from the license
manager while the firewall client is enabled on the workstation. We would
prefer to not have license manager traffic routed through the firewall if we
can avoid it.

Is there something we can do to stop the routers from blocking the license
manager traffic without letting all udp traffic through? (such as opening a
specific port to domain users).

Thanks in advice for any suggestions you may have.

 

What products and versions are you using? Products prior to AutoCAD 2002
used UDP 1422. Our FLEXlm implementation which is used from AutoCAD 2002
on, uses TCP packets 2080 and 27000-27009

 

Does the AutoCAD version determine which ports are used? We have AutoCAD
2002 and 2004 running (soon to be only 2005).

LMTOOLS says that the version is 8.3c, but I don't know if this refers to
the actual license manager, or just lmtools itself.

Does this mean it should be using ports 2080 and 27000-27009?

 

In my experience the ports are taken from 27000 and up in the order that you
start the services unless you have specified the port in the license file
using TCP:27000 on the SERVER line.

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Thanks for the information guys.