Hi,
First if this would not be the place to post this, please excuse that because I am new here and new to Astaro also please excuse if this runs a bit long.
Recently my linksys router became a brick and having been through a bunch of these things over the years I looked for alternatives, being a software developer and also an enthusiast with 3 gaming teens in the house I have plenty of hardware lying around and have used watchguard fireboxes in the past and even though these are cheap on ebay, they cannot be updated so I decided to try linux software firewalls and found Astaro, I tried Astaro, Securepoint, Untangled and smoothwall (these seemed to be the best of the 10 or so I looked at) and Astaro wins for features and it istalled perfectly.
The hardware I decided to use is as follows:
Old Spacewalker Motherboard.
Athlon XP 2000+
2GB DDR
40GB HDD
3x Netgear Gigabit PCI adapters
1x Netgear Wireless PCI
put this in an old small silverstone htpc case I had, about the size of a firebox II.
Astaro installed perfectly and it is running just fine so far, but a couple things I would like to ask about are.
1. When I view reports, it shows user in the column header, but an IP is in the row, is there a way to tie a user to IP for reporting and rules?
2. In my hardware setup would there be a benifit to a larger hard disk? I have a couple 80GB's lying around, but do not know if larger would improve caching or not.
3. I cannot get Call of duty 4 to work at all, I found a post on here about it and those instructions did not work.
4. I am installing Windows Home server in the network, I also have a Windows 2003 / SQL setup that I would like to make available both online and to my lan, what would be the best way to setup a DMZ to allow for this?
5 License question - I have 12 PC's in the home (including the servers as follows):
5x Desktops - my self, spouse and children.
3x Home theater PC's - no more than 2 at a time ever in use. - these may access the internet for images of music covers and windows updates. When they are in use, others are not in use.
1x WHS Server (as above)
1x BeyondTV / PVR server (only accesses internet for product guides / windows updates)
1x Development Test server (needs internet so employer can view when I work at home).
1x Laptop (not in use when I am at my desktop)
I also have other devices that require an IP, but do not need to access the internet at all which are:
2x HP Printers
1x HDHome Run
1x Monsoon Hava Device (like a slingbox but I only currently use it locally to control / watch movies on a couple sony 400 disc dvd changers). - This I may eventually want to enable it's streaming on the internet features.
I think I am within the licenseing but am pretty close, I just want to be sure, I do not foresee 10 machines accessing the internet at one time, usually it's 4 or 5 if the kids are all home and online.
6. I read somewhere that CrystalFontz LCD's could be used, but know notta about linux, I figured out how to login as root and that's as far as I have gotten, would be really nice if I could get that to work in my astro unit. I would even buy a new different LCD if there is one compatible with astaro out of the box.
7. Any tips or tricks would be greatly appreciated for a little more than average home setup like mine. I definately do not want someone possibly getting at my store of mucic and movies (would not want to get sued!).
Ok, thats alot!
I would be happy if someone could help me with this stuff, might even possibly offer some cash via paypal to help get me going.
Thanks a bunch and sorry for the long post.
Tom
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