Further to Harry's query, I can't locate a definitive answer to what the licensing covers for the free - home use version.
Some have suggested it covers/protects up to 10 clients, I assume this is 10 clients on the trusted side. So on the weekend I setup at home around 17 different NICS (all with unique IP's) on 7 various machines and started bombarding the external machine with pings, and in case pinging wasn't definitive, I also started large file transfers, (each file around 500MB)via each NIC simultaneously. While also accessing HTTP and SAMBA services bi-directionally. During this time the firewall rules were set to " any - any - any".
Each machine seemed to be responding okay, with no apparent drop-outs, other than slow response as all traffic was funneled through one interface.
So my questions are:
If there are limitations on the "free - home-use" version, does anyone know exactly what they are,
and,
Does ICMP requests/replies on NIC's constitute actual client traffic? i.e, if I can ping an external machine from more than ten clients, does this mean the "10 protected client IP's" statement is wrong?
the limitation of the homeuse edition which is the same than the office version is limited by the number of interfaces (3) the number of VPN tunnels according to our pricelist its 10 and 5 e-mail domains. Those limitations are checked by the WebAdmin.
The number of 10 protected IP devices is a legal limitation.
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the limitation of the homeuse edition which is the same than the office version is limited by the number of interfaces (3) the number of VPN tunnels according to our pricelist its 10 and 5 e-mail domains. Those limitations are checked by the WebAdmin.
The number of 10 protected IP devices is a legal limitation.
read you o|iver
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I have quite an extensive test/gaming/internet setup at my unit, (no I don't work from home!) which most definately exceeds the 10 IP legal restriction. To apply for a "poweruser" user license, you need to be an "active support poweruser" on the BB. What is meant by this? And is it very hard to get a home-use "power license" as may be indicated?
Would this new license allow LAN parties (involving usually 15-30 of my fellow students)?
BTW, from the little i've been playing around with it, the product seems most reliable and is quite user-friendly.
I got my power user license first time. Sent the fax, got an e-mail later that day. I have a quite a network at home, but don't host LAN parties, so couldn't comment there, I also don't work from home. I agree with your comments - Astaro, as far as I have used it, has been excellent, and I'm looking forward to v4.
