A question of curiosity.
For reliability reasons the firewall at our company is very important, so much so that if we have a hardware failure we'd be crippled if it failed. Therefore I'm forming the plan of having a cheap pc act as a fallback if the 220's hardware ever fails. (the replacement within 24 hours thing of the platinum support makes me a bit uncomfortable, i'd prefer they had a warehouse in the UK that had a guaranteed delivery time of within 4 hours)
I don't have the budget at the moment to buy two Astaro 220's, but what I do have is the idea that on the spare pc I could install ASG with a trial license and switch the cabling between the two if the firewall explodes, gets run over by elephants, becomes sentient and decides its existence has no meaning and commits suicide.
So, my question is if I copy over the config file from the 220 to a software version, are there any issues of doing this? Are there any gotchas?
Like I'd have to reconfigure the interfaces or something like that. (I'll actually be carrying out a test in vmware workstation at some point)
Of course, all this is highly unlikely since it's in a nice (relatively) dust free environment in an air conditioned server room.
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