I've just installed the ASL 4.0 ISO from the Astaro ftp site on a Cyrix P266 PC. It installed fine - perhaps Pentium's are still supported in the ASL v4 code ?
HMMM Maybe it will work on my epia 800mhz.... It is a cyrix based processor. The last beta did not work, but perhaps this will. I think I will Download it and see. [:S]
I've just tried to install asl 4.0 on my P166 and it install ok, but it doesn't startup... failed to remount old initrd... same as betas next I installed smoothwall... so see ya astaro it was nice to work with you, and smoothwall also has comercial products which is great.....
No, zaga, NO. Don't go to the dark side! If you do, can you send me what you've got for that shell script for snort? I think perhaps I'll use my old P166 as a snort-inline bridge. We'll see.
it installed fine, but it wouldn't boot. It hangs on freeing unsed memory 76k..... This is not cool. I guess it is time to move on, it wouldn't appear that Astaro will support EPIA platforms w/ C3 processors. [:(]
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"
