Well in fairness to ASL, I do not think they are charging specifically for the snort updates, but instead charging for the update service. RedHat does this, so do many other business companies. Most of those updates are free, however what you are paying for is the convience of One-Stop shopping per se. You can pretty much build everything Astaro offers for free (minus the nice web UI). However what ASL offers is a tested, very easy to implement, secure, system. You can achieve this on your own, however it does require ALOT of work to do well.
[/ QUOTE ] as per their press release: Intrusion Protection, Virus Protection for Email, Virus Protection for the Web, and Surf Protection are optional subscription services.
Pretty cut and dry..they are going to charge for updating SNORT (via a service or whatever the result is stil the same)...which i have a problem with..but as i said before the rest of the product seems fine. Charging for a/v i can understand as it is another company's licensed work..but SNORT is a free IDS/IPS with free udpates.
[ QUOTE ] Pretty cut and dry..they are going to charge for updating SNORT (via a service or whatever the result is stil the same)...which i have a problem with..but as i said before the rest of the product seems fine. Charging for a/v i can understand as it is another company's licensed work..but SNORT is a free IDS/IPS with free udpates.
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So don't buy it then. Why should they provide the bandwidth for you to leech snort up2dates from them directly free of charge? If it's that much easier to compile and install the snort updates yourself on another box, then feel free. I'll stick with one touch updates myself.
rofl rofl rofl....nice response.....i am questioning hte legality of charging at all....and btw i never said i would buy the updates..i intend to "roll my own"..
Has anyone heard what the pricing is going to be for the Snort updates? If it's too expensive (I'm a Power Home User not corporate), I'd have to look into "Rolling my own" as well. I don't have a problem updating the *.rules files themselves but the ASL GUI doesn't create the standard *.rules files though. (Does it?). If in fact they are only charging for the up2date service bandwidth, the rules up2date files (like the ASL up2date files *.gz) could be mirrored somewhere for download to offload bandwidth requirements from the ASL servers. However, if ASL is, in fact, charging for the service of creating the up2date.gz file itself, then mirroring the file would be a breach of the EULA.
I know people have allready questioned the lack of IPS in the home version, but I just thought I'd chip in my 2 cents in the vain hope that it will sway the astaro admins into allowing it in the home licence, or at least the power users licence.
I agree, let the beta-testers/reporters use IPD/IDS !!! Also I don't understand why IPS/IDS is disabled even if there isn't a pricelist !?! How do you activate it? or better how do you test it ??? [:S]
