From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> Received: from [192.168.100.25] (account lgrosenthal@2rosenthals.com) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro WEBUSER 5.1.3) with HTTP id 771146 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:53:46 -0500 Subject: OT: Astaro Security Gateway was: Re: Network status update) To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro WebUser v5.1.3 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:53:46 -0500 Message-ID: <web-771146@2rosenthals.com> In-Reply-To: <list-770851@2rosenthals.com> References: <list-770851@2rosenthals.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset="iso-8859-1";format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit No, it's a hardened SuSE Linux distro, bundled with a host of open source (and some commercial) modules. It's all configurable from a web interface, and backs up it's configuration at customizable intervals and emails the backups to me. If the box should crash, installing another is simple: 1 CD, then the restore of the configuration file over the LAN. Rebuilding takes less than an hour. For more information, see http://www.astaro.com (I'm a reseller). The reason I mentioned "Astaro-based" in my earlier post is that my own two boxes are actually running Novell Security Manager, which is Astaro 6 with Novell's branding. After version 6, however, the Novell/Astaro agreement has terminated. Version 7 is only available from Astaro (through one of their resellers, like me). A final note (and more on-topic about wireless): The Astaro has provision for functioning as an AP or as a wireless client. I haven't set mine up this way, so I'm not well versed in the setup. It will be an interesting experiment sometime, however. On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:39:12 -0800 (PST) "Rick R." <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> wrote: > Astaro-based firewall?? > > Is that an OS/2 product? > > > > --- Lewis G Rosenthal > <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> wrote: > >> After monitoring the interface logs for the past few >> hours, I have >> determined it best to fail back over to our backup >> connection. While the >> bandwidth on the primary link appears on the surface >> to be consistent, >> the connection itself is not. I am seeing multiple >> disconnect/reconnect >> events, and I have received reports of broken >> connections while >> retrieving email. >> >> At approximately 12pm EST, I did receive a telephone >> call from Verizon >> support, advising me that our ticket was indeed >> still open. >> Unfortunately, the representative was not able to >> give me any more >> information about the condition of the line, as her >> own test software >> was offline. I asked her to record in the ticket the >> latest performance >> statistics I was able to glean from our >> Astaro-based firewall logs, >> which she did. >> >> I will follow-up with more news as it becomes >> available. 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