I agree to your postings and I am also disappointed that they have disabled the snort thing. Disabling a feature due to 3rd party licensing is for sure but they should keep in mind that the most bugs were discovered by "Home User" because the have the ability to fumble around with the ASL. In a productive environment the danger of doing very bad things let the most admins keep their settings for ever and ever - okay adjusting spam rules or up2date things....
Pleaseeeeeee enable the Snort Feature for Home Users. They wouldn't disappoint you.
Very, very, very strange!!!!!! As you can read below i ask for a power user license a couple of weeks ago (16/3/2004). Although they offer it at there homepage (stiil do) they could'nt provide me one. Reason was "We have so many requests for such a license, that we found it necessary to implement tighter controls for eligibility." But they told me that, besides 2000 concurrent connections, ALL other checks would be switched off. At that point i thought that the only limitations was 2000 concurrent connections, can live with that, and the rest 'open' but i'm not so sure anymore Can someone explain that to me?
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please understand that I cannot issue a Power Homeuse License. But we offer a free homeuse license which can be obtained @ register.astaro.com. It is equal to our office version (limited to three interfaces, 5 SMTP tunnel, 10 VPN remote keys). In version 5 the homeuse license will be limited to 2000 concurrent connections (which isn't a real limitation in a home environment) All other checks will be switched off.
this means that V5 is not limited to an amount of NIC interfaces and SMTP domains (which was a limitation in V4) anymore. So for many users there is no more need for the power license which they needed to connect their several DMZs, home-subnetworks, etc.
I don't know for sure what the specifications for the new Home license will be, but based on Olivers message it seems to me that Power license is no longer needed. Thus the Home license should be enough for any non-commercial user.
Pls note that I am just trying to interprete what Astaro has stated, not trying to tell how things are for sure.
I've got v5.0 installed, and just updated my home license from v4 to v5.0, and it states I can have up to 16,000 concurrent connections. Here's the License screen (cut & pasted).
Expiration Date: Never
Version Type: Office
User Limit (IPs): 10
Max. concurrent connections: 16000
SMP capability: Off
High availability: Off
Intrusion Protection: not licensed
Spam Protection: not licensed
Up2Date Service: Valid from 01/12/2004 until 01/12/2007
I've got v5.0 installed, and just updated my home license from v4 to v5.0, and it states I can have up to 16,000 concurrent connections. Here's the License screen (cut & pasted).
Expiration Date: Never
Version Type: Office
User Limit (IPs): 10
Max. concurrent connections: 16000
SMP capability: Off
High availability: Off
Intrusion Protection: not licensed
Spam Protection: not licensed
Up2Date Service: Valid from 01/12/2004 until 01/12/2007
BTW, it appears that I won't be able to mess with ASL v5.0 on either of my dual machines (Xeon & AMD) as SMP is only supported on, I'm guessing, the Enterprise License.
It also doesn't even appear possible to even enable IPS without a license for it. I wouldn't mind having IPS enabled with the default set of rules (better than nothing correct?), yet I guess its all or nothing now. Has anyone seen pricing for the subscription yet? I looked on the main site, and they only had the v4 virus scanning & surf protection packages listed.
Can someone explain that to me?
