I have been having problems left and right with the pair of ASG220 we use in our production environment. We have 2 because we need HA. However without HA our site would go down probably once a week. Note I do not use the HTTP Proxy and have it disabled. For the most part the FW is used only for packet filtering and IPS. VPN is used only by 2 people and used at most once a month.
At least once a week one of the ASG have to be rebooted either because some process is constantly failing or the machine flat out crashes. Up until yesterday the HA system worked and the slave took over. However yesterday the Master crashed, the slave took over however when it took over it had an identity crysis and keep flip flopping back from Master to Slave crippling our system and required a power cycle to fix. Note these devices reside in a data center 40 minutes away so power cycling is not a simple fix.
Yesterday when I went to submit yet another trouble ticket the trouble ticket system gave me a 404. So I called and was sent to voicemail, have not heard back yet.
I have submitted multiple trouble tickets over the past year and not once has one been resolved. I have used Astaro products since V2 and greatly enjoyed them, however V7 and the ASG220 is one of the worst products I have ever experienced.
To date I have had issues with constant ctsync service failing, smtp service failing, when the moons do not align right for the HA during start up I get double report emails (one from the slave), I have never been able to rely on the dashboard statistics they seem to always get stuck. And all of these problems have been reported at least once, most of them many many times. I have given direct access to our Firewalls to the Astaro engineers on more than one occasion. I think that actually did help solve one problem with pfilter taking down the machine. But as you can see I still have many many more problems and support seems to be steadily getting worse with Astaro. Support a year ago I thought was great, I could handle the issues when I knew Astaro was willing to help. However getting left in the cold makes these problems very difficult to swallow.
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