After spending hours reading Astaro manuals, forum postings, and watching streaming video I have come here to ask the experts for help. I am not a newwork expert but I have setup home LANs. My day job involves embedded software so I have years of software experience but not in networking.
I installed ASG v7 at home on an old AMD 750 MHz PC with 256 MB RAM and 40 GB hard drive. The CPU now runs at 4 to 25% utilization now that I have NAT enabled. Without NAT I was surprised that enabling the 2nd NIC (external) took CPU utilization to 100%. Now there is not problem with CPU utilization but I don't have everything working yet.
The problems are:
1) can access many websites and stream video from Youtube but I cannot access the Gmail website. I can get to the Hotmail's websites ID and password screen but no further. I read some info on opening ports but need more help.
2) Outlook Express cannot send/receive mail. It starts with mail from my ISP. It just sits on the first mail account.
3) I do not know how to "add a network definition" in the Global tab of Network Security->Intrusion Protection. It will not accept an IP address no matter how I try to enter a local IP. I just love the red flashing background in the address box with no explanation of why my entry is not valid. I read the manuals and I understand the definitions in the manuals but I need examples. The manuals seem great at defining terms but not great at explaining what I need to do to get everything working. So I cannot enable Intrusion Protection.
4) I cannot get ASG to accept a MAC address in Static MAC/IP mappings tab under Networking->DHCP. Once again ASG gives me a flashing red background on the MAC Address entry box.
Currenty, only the firewall and HTTP Proxy in the dashboard window are enabled. I had anti-virus enabled for a while and then turned it off. The DHCP server and NAT are enabled. I have a DynDNS accout that I am using in ASG. Under Web Security->HTTP I selected Transparent as the Operation Mode.
I would just like a simple guide with details of what needs to be entered where to get ASG to operate like a home router. Then may a few pointers on how to lock done a few PCs or user accounts on the network so that accessing objectionable websites is made more difficult.
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