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.
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
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.
Depends on the way you read it... i'm affraid... and the way it was be written in... Afterall, what is the use of more conncurent connecting for testing purpose (that's what i asked, a way to be able tests setups) when the rest is disabled?
That's the same reason why i want to test the beta! So i did, give input for what it's worth, and now? NOTHING! Even spam control seems to be removed. Is this another bug or is this the way it's gonna be?
I just installed up2date package v5.001 and nothing on the licensing page has changed. We will probably see 2 or 3 up2date packages a day for the next couple of weeks while they still iron out issues with v5.0. I was told earlier this evening that this isn't actually the gold release of v5.0 (contrary to the Press Release), v5.0 is officially Release Candidate 1 (RC1). I'm still keeping my fingers crossed that Astaro will re-enable SNORT for home users when the RC is completed.
I just installed up2date package v5.001 and nothing on the licensing page has changed. We will probably see 2 or 3 up2date packages a day for the next couple of weeks while they still iron out issues with v5.0. I was told earlier this evening that this isn't actually the gold release of v5.0 (contrary to the Press Release), v5.0 is officially Release Candidate 1 (RC1). I'm still keeping my fingers crossed that Astaro will re-enable SNORT for home users when the RC is completed.
the Up2Date package 5.001 was a "for-internal-test only" package... Sorry, we forgot to delete it while the upload of the V5 ISO image.
I would recommend to reinstall a clean V5 image, because the Up2Date 5.001 contains only test application and will prevent you from install the correct (upcoming) 5.001.
