Hello,
I'm currently "playing" with an Astaro VM as I planned using it.
It appears that the 10 IP/Users limitation is probably going to make me choose another product - unless Astaro would raise it a bit?
Basically, I have a vmware server running on Debian. I host in this my firewall, a reverse proxy, 2 machines in the DMZ (web), an SBS server, a multimedia streaming server, and a NAS.
That's already 7 IP adresses!
Now, I also have 4 PC's, a multimedia networked player, 1 wi-fi windows mobile phone, 1 networked printer, and 2 gaming consoles.
That's another 9 IP adresses!
And I sometimes also need to connect through VPN to the office, wich is the 10th one in the LAN only.
I agree, I'm not a typical end user. But someone installing a dedicated PC for a firewall isn't probably a standard end user - chances are that this person also got a few PC, gaming consoles, etc...
Take in consideration a family with 2 kids - you can easily have 4 PC's in the home, 2 multimedia devices, 2 gaming consoles, 1 wi-fi phone...
Without even talking about a router used as switch for teh wireless access.
So, anybody knows if chances that this limit is raised up is a possibility?
I like Astaro - typically, the SSO would be a great thing for me, allowing to prevent kids going on inappropriate web sites and so on, but if I cannot connect everything behind it, I may have to stick with smoothwall...
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