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Barracuda NG Firewall

Licensing

FORMAT OF LICENSES

All Barracuda NG Firewall licenses are x.509 certiﬁcates issued and signed by the Barracuda Networks Certiﬁcate Authority.

Because all Barracuda NG Firewall products have the Barracuda Networks public key built into the product, they can easily

validate the certiﬁcates and extract the license information.

SYSTEM BEHAVIOR WITH INVALID OR MISSING LICENSES

Evaluation mode

Even without a valid license the Barracuda NG Firewall system will provide almost all relevant features. Nevertheless, the

system is not intended to serve any other purpose than evaluation. Please take into consideration that systems in evaluation

mode provide only weak encryption & authentication methods (DES, RSA-512).

Note:

In this mode the default password for the root account will always be accepted, even if it was changed before.

Grace Period

In the case of a hardware failure or transfer of service to another appliance, a license strictly bound to a MAC address results

in a loss of service. For this reason, almost every issued Barracuda NG Firewall license has a “grace period” (typically 15 days).

During this time, the Barracuda NG Firewall works according to the parameters deﬁned in the license, even if the hardware

ID that the license is attached to does not match the actual hardware. If this happens, please contact your local Barracuda

Networks sales team or Barracuda Networks partner immediately to obtain a new license.

CPU core restricted licenses

Licenses with a restriction on the number of supported CPU cores (such as licenses for virtual machines) are immediately

invalid without grace mode if the available number of CPU cores exceeds the number of CPU cores speciﬁed in the license.

Evaluation licenses

Evaluation licenses provide access to the full feature set of the Barracuda NG Firewall but are time limited. Please note that

upon expiration of such a license the Barracuda NG Firewall will NOT stop forwarding traﬃc, but any conﬁguration changes

(with the exception of entering a license / activating) or online updates will be prevented.