Weird, a few minutes after writing the above post the fw box made some beeps, three of em. All by itself... Never heard ASL making noises except for the boot beeps.
Still no webmin response.
30mins later....
Hrm, the PC just made a lot of alarm sounding noises then...
i had all of these same symptoms when using IE. Using Netscape on my linux box, i have no problem at all connecting to the Astaro beta, regardless of the syn rate limit setting. I think IE doesn't like something with the ssl certificate. I tried generating a new one and got farther but still couldn't get logged in with Windows/IE. Always Netscape and Mozilla and even Konqueror work fine. -Aaron
same results here: mozilla (1.5) works fine, but is veeeeeeeery slooooow. ie gets the certificate and then stops doing anything. after disabling the synrate-limiter ie (6.0) works fine and it's really fast. the webadmin interface is even faster compared to version 4.702.
Synrate-limiter fix worked for my systems. Very strange problem indeed, and it was worse using IE 6.0. I think mozilla has a longer timeout period which is why it would work half-way.