But seriously: please keep calm, nobody said we will never support it
We currently working on a V4 version with full PI/AMD K6 support, but it will definitley not included in 4.000 because of some lib dependences. Please check regular the announcement forum for news and release dates for a PI/K6 enabled V4.
It's good to hear that K6's will be supported, I was just about to post on the hackers forum "how can I slipstream my own kernel into ASL"
Dumb question: I am running ASL 3.2 up2date'ing it's little heart out, will I reboot one day and find it won't get back on its feet? Or is everyone talking about ASL v4?
Dumb Question #2: When v4 is ready to support K6-2's will I need to reconfigure my whole system, or can it just upgrade, also will my existing home liscence grandfathered over or do I need to get another?
PS[:D]on't forget the little guy astaro it's the linux way to be efficient as possible and with my 3 computer network my K6-2 200MHz is 90-99% too much CPU already.
thanks for your anwer. I use the 4.107 Beta Version. I use a test license and a orginal license. Same Problem. about 30 minutes i cant log in in the webadmin. it says "license expired". The i stop the licens manager and start it. it works, but only for 30 minutes....
Using an ASUS TX97, K6-2 400, 256 mb SDRAM, Maxtor 90650U2 6.8gb and WD28400 8.5gb, Realtek 8139 internal NIC, Realtek 8029 external NIC, ACPI on. After all is said and done, ASL 4.107 is working flawlessly, but with comments:
1. CD Boot Hang.
During first install on the Maxtor 90650U2, the CD would start to boot, but after pressing Enter at the "boot:" prompt, boot would hang at "Loading Initrd". Observed this hang for about five minutes before rebooting using ctrl-alt-delete. Tried several times. Number of dots following "Loading Initrd" varied when hang occurred on various tries. Finally pressed "F1" at the "boot:" prompt, typed "classic", and the boot/install proceeded normally, but read on.
After running 4.107 for several days on the Maxtor 90650U2, I decided to install 4.107 on the WD28400 for a backup. On this install, there were no hangs at "Loading Initrd". Started boot four times with no hangs. Reinstalled the Maxtor 90650U2 and started the CD boot, and still no hangs with four tries.
I suspect my CD Drive is dirty/failing, but thought I would report this "problem" anyway.
2 Install.
I use only the basic firewall; i.e. no dhcp server, PPTP, QOS, VPN, or proxies. I do set up the dns and smpt proxies for my local dhcp/dns/mail server, but then disable them.
Backup from ASL 4.004 restored to 4.107 flawlessly.
I schedule both Up2date services and automatic backup. These work flawlessly.
MAC spoofing as in ASL 3.2 works.
3. Webmin Site Certificate.
On new installs, after restoring from backup, I had to "Save" the "Certificate Information" before I could successfully "Import the Certificate into Browser" (Windows 2000, Internet Explorer 6). This might be in the ASL manual - I've never needed nor been inclined to read it.
4. Shutdown (AT Power Supply):
Using "shutdown -h now" the beeps start about five seconds before "Power Down." prompt appears on the display. Beeps start at the second "Remounting / read only" prompt. This prompt is followed by the "flushing ide devices: hda hdc" and "Power Down." prompts. This probably is mostly cosmetic, but I am reporting it nonetheless.
now i did ran into a problem. The Proxy is not working for http when in Transparent mode. HTTPS is working fine . I double checked everything (DNS works fine, DNS proxy is turned on, pinging a host by hostname via "net tools" works fine) but can't find anything. But as soon as i switch the http proxy to transparent mode alle clients can only access https sides, no http anymore. The HTTP Proxy log file is empty. [:(]
Due to some strange behavior of my old ASL 3.2 instalation I decided to upgrade our company ASL box to version 4.107. Eventhough it is not recomanded to use Beta versions in working production enviroment I made it on purposse to see the difference.
Since 3 days I had no problem with NICs, so new NIC kernel drivers are working OK. Users are working without any problem. Restore of configuration from 3.218 worked as it gets!
With version 3.2 I had in the night when logs were written, quite some problems and I always got up to 7 mails about process taking to much memory. Now those mails are gone, eventhough nothing changed on network.
At the end I have to say that version 4.107 is working for me without problem at full rate and can be easily used.
thx for your reports! However there is a Up2Date available (4.108, 6.8 MBytes) - in contrast to our last announcement we need this Up2Date to replace the kernel with a new one:
REMARKS
* Required previous version is 4.107 * Existing configuration will not be changed * Firewall will reboot!
NEW/CHANGED/IMPROVED - new kernel with routing cache hash fix (CAN-2003-0244)
thx for your reports! However there is a Up2Date available (4.108, 6.8 MBytes) - in contrast to our last announcement we need this Up2Date to replace the kernel with a new one:
REMARKS
* Required previous version is 4.107 * Existing configuration will not be changed * Firewall will reboot!
NEW/CHANGED/IMPROVED - new kernel with routing cache hash fix (CAN-2003-0244)
I just discovered that if I enable QoS for an interface and, say, three rules exists and are enabled, the rules will not show up in "Current quality of service rules" before I've disabled/re-enabled one of the rules.
Is this by design or is it a bug (f***, I hate using that expression ;-)?
Hmm. Not sure if it is the update or what, but this afternoon (CST) I started getting tons of the following messages: Fw: [ hostname ] [INF 106] HTTP proxy not running - restarted(1 times) followed by this message...
Last WebAdmin login: xxxxxxxxx at Fri Jun 6 01:25:20 from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx System Uptime : 3 days 19 hours 42 minutes System Load : 0.31 System Version : Astaro Security Linux 4.107 License : Office Version Active IP Count : 5 protected IPs
Please refer to the manual for detailed instructions
The odd thing is how my protected IP count keeps going up. I currently only have one machine through the firewall. Anyway, I could not get to the webadmin page and had to hard reset the fw after about 100 emails the same as above. FW came back just fine, and i could get to the web, but now email doesnt work. I updated to 4.108 and let the fw restart. Still no go. I am not using any sort of POP3 proxy or anything, so I am at a bit of a loss. This was working just fine this morning.
I am on a VIA Epia 800 (mini itx) and have been running since the weekend with no issue. Used my backup from my Intel based fw that was running 4.007 and the restore worked fine. Licensing seems fine, just not sure why email has hit the crapper. Outlook express keeps telling me that the POP3 server has not responded in 60 seconds etc etc. I have rebooted my PC, checked my FW logs. PLEASE HELP
