Hello Astaro Users and Developers.
First, my compliments for this wunderfull piece of software. It is easy-to-use and has a beautifull interface.
Now my question.
This question has asked many times. But, I want to push out more of it. All topics end with "No, Astaro don't support it and will never support it."
Just some other firewall distro's, all based on Linux:
ClearOS:
USB Networking support: Yes
SmoothWall:
USB Networking support: Yes
pfSense:
USB Networking support: Yes
Monowall:
USB Networking support: Yes
IPCop:
USB Networking support: Partially
Now Astaro:
USB Networking support: No
Negotiateable with community: seems not.
Reason: It has potential security risks.
Why does Astaro force its users to buy expensive dual NIC motherboards?
For example:
A user (a student with almost no money in this case) has not much space in it's home. Therefore he want's to put a small firewall appliance in its electricity counter room, because he don't have the space for a big PC with a PCI NIC. He has an small computer with one onboard NIC lying around. Therefore he buys a cheap USB NAD, but when he boots he sees Astaro does not support it.
Is it difficult to intergrate support?
NO! Just add some kernel drivers like the pegasus driver, and you are all set. (But not if ACC does not support it, but it shouldn't be that hard to make support for it.) If you find it riskfull, just make a big warning label that you don't guarantee the safety.
I hope that this topic doesn't get locked, but starts a big discussion about it.
Can someone look if they intergrate the pegasus driver, the software recognizes the USB NAD?
I am down for testing, because I own a ADMTek USB NAD.
Thanks!
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