I am going to be building an Astaro box (For home use) offline and wanted to know about swaping out NIC cards and changing MAC addresses after the build.
What I would like to do is build the box offline and set it up how I want it. Then change the MAC to match the one I have registered to my ISP so I can do testing on the internet. This way if there is an issue, I can pop in my IPCOP box and have access to the net again. Once I have all my testing done, I would like to pop out the "Red" NIC from my IPCOP box and put it in the Astaro box.
1. Can these be done?
2. If so, exactly how do I do this?
One other question.
I currently use Banish with IPCOP to drop packets from a huge number of countries. This drops both incoming and outgoing packets, preventing connections to any IP in these countries. (China, Russia, Brazil, and MANY others, etc.) I am assuming I can do this with the firewall in Astaro. I have a P3 700 with 768 megs of RAM in my IPCOP box. I had to lower my CIDR blocks when I went to 15MBit because I was getting a slow down and was not getting my full speed. I am now on 30Mbit and did see any slowdown in my new speed with the same number of blocks.
1. Can I enter blocks via CIDR in Astaro?
2. If so, can I do a large number of blocks in one rule? (Like Untangle - I have a txt file of them.)
For a simple example: if IP = 1.0.0.0.0/16, 2.0.0.0.0/14, 3.4.5.0/30 block
3. What would be the bottle neck for performance with over a million IP's blocked (Severl hundred CIDR's) (I am guessing it would be the CPU.)
If so, any recommendations?
What build has Avira in it? 7.4? Is so, is there any clue to when it will be released?
By the way, is the demo site down? I am unable to get to it from IE or Opera.
Thank you,
C68
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