I think I have to agree with Jim M on this one. When you can pick up a PII or even an AMD Duron system for less than a hundred bucks, why not? I haven't seen ANY similarly priced firewalls that can do what ASL does. You have to look at very expensive solutions from large commercial vendors as an alternative. If all you need is the firewall, then just build yourself a dedicated firewall using pf and OpenBSD. But if you want support for stateful packet-filtering, content filtering, VPNs, proxied services, and nice built-in reporting features - spend the extra $100 or so and put ASL on it. I think if the woman in Zaga who has 32 prospective customers fails to see ASL as a viable solution for her business customers there because it might mean $100 to $200 extra on the price, it's not Astaro that loses out... it's the customers. Just my two cents.
I would like to know what the Astaro team think about that question. ( ... I think without implementing i586 support they kick out a lot of home license users ... ) Is this true ?
Asl (3.216) - Pentium I - 200 Mhz (And is great and quick)
P.S.: For all, I haven't the money to buy new (or old) hardware. I'm a HOME USER.
We plan to release a additional BETA/RC within the next few weeks, still some work to do: * WLAN only station mode, access point not working yet * AMD K6/Intel PentiumI CPUs not working * configuration problems in Port Scan Detection"
