Indigo slave licensing question...

[Zom-B]

Hey Ben...

I'm seriously interested in finally getting a license

But I still got a question about licensing:

that the master license is restricted to the "main machine" is quite ok, and obvious !
But how about the slave licensing? Is the slave license connected to the master,
so that after 2 (random) Indigo 2.x slaves connected the cue is closed (just like for C4D Netrender)
or is it the evil way to hook the slave license to the hardware of a slave too???

Since Indigo is interesting for some commercial work, where I got mostly (Internet) access (via Hamachi) to two 8 core Mac's, I would like to use this two slave licenses for them..... BUT during nonprofit Jobs I would like to use my home network or some friends over the Internet too!!!

So am I lucky, and the slave licensing is dynamic (like for C4D), or how does it work exactly?

Thanks in advance

[benn]

Guten Tag Herr ZomB!

Der licence fur Indigo ist...

The licencing system for Indigo specifies a hardware ID for each render slave, so you need to choose two renderslaves that you want to run Indigo on, and install Indigo on those. I hadn't heard of that dynamic licencing idea before - so you're saying that you install indigo on your pc, and it has 1 full licence and two dynamic licence it can use to fully-enable any installed indigo slave?

That's a cool idea - I'll discuss it with Ono when he comes in.

Ben

[Zom-B]

Yes, the Idea is to have "licensing check" running only on the master Hardware, so the first two clients that join are accepted a third, fourth etc. would be blocked. This system is more flexible for the user.

I don't know about the (cracking) security of this system... basically the free 2.x demo could be used as netrender without restriction (and no ISI saving on HDD!).

[Zom-B]

Just to push this interesting topic, any news here???
I read somewhere about your plans to get away from the Mac Address...

[OnoSendai]

We may do the licensing on the server only at some point, but not just now sorry.

[Zom-B]

No problem with the timing, the general info is enough for me atm

[zeitmeister]

I totally agree with ZomB.
The slave limitation should be that way, that the master looks up how many node licenses are bought/allowed and then catch all nodes running automatically.