My current v6 licence allows for 32000 concurrent connections, dropping it to a 1000 per user might just stretch things a little bit for some of the games etc. I think for the 1st time we went over or close to 4000 with 3 users on using v7, under v6 it was never an issue count never went anywhere near that high.

It would appear that Astaro have changed the way connections are counted.

At the busiest time my home LAN will have 6 devices accessing the internet with another 3 devices providing network printing and wireless access point. 2 of the devices require 2 IP because they use both wireless and cable and then you add the mandatory ASG internal interface and without trying too hard you have 11 IPs.
So how to reduce the count, make sure the laptops are assigned the Same IP for both wireless and ethernet connections.

No room for expansion with the new counting scheme.

Ian M

Forgot that I am trying to add a VOIP box when I change ISPs later in the year. Looking like a couple of boxes will have to go behind a NAT'd box.

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Yeah, we have the same issue with laptops. Most staff here (say 20-30 have laptops, each chews TWO IP addresses as they wander from cabled to wireless connections.)

Most users run both at the same time, although I guess only the first "active" connection is the one used for routing. Still though, we are using a lot of extra IP addresses we don't need to... But this is difficult to solve on our side if we need to maintain conveniance for end-users.

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Intel 2.66GHz Quad Core, 4GB (2 x 2GB) PC-6400 800Mhz 4-4-4-12, WD 300GB 10K RPM VelociRaptor, Intel Pro/1000 Quad Port PCI-X
http://www.sputcorp.com/

FWIW,
I currently (and normally) have 1 Win2000 PC running eMule and Azureus (BitTorrent). A development webserver/fileserver is currently idle, and has been for days. My other computers are all off, and are only used for casual surfing anyways.

ASL V5 shows I am using over 5600 connections in the "connection tracking table"!

Barry

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• ASL 6.3x, HP DL145 Dual Opteron, 1GB RAM, 6 gigE NICs, 50-IP Platinum License
  
• ASL 7.3x, Dell PE1550 Dual PIII 1GHz, 1GB RAM, 2 NICs, 50-IP Platinum License
  
• ASL 7.5x, 17-watt fanless mini-ITX system: MSI IM-945GSE-A Atom n270, 2GB RAM, Morex T3310 case. 2 Intel GigE, 3 VLANs. 80G 5200rpm 2.5" HD
  Netgear GS108T gigE VLAN switch & Linksys WRT54G WAP
  Total network infrastructure: 27 watts. 100-IP Home User. FiOS 10mb/2mb

That would be your P2P software...

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Intel 2.66GHz Quad Core, 4GB (2 x 2GB) PC-6400 800Mhz 4-4-4-12, WD 300GB 10K RPM VelociRaptor, Intel Pro/1000 Quad Port PCI-X
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Well, I agree that the 10 IP limit is a bit too low..

Here is what I have running that needs internet access:

1 Win3k Server (Serving 2.5TB of Audio/Video)
2 XP Workstations
2 XP Laptops
2 XBOX's running XBMC
1 Vonage VOIP Router
1 TiVo Box
1 Webcam

That's 10 already.. and I'm sure I missed something.. That leaves me with no room to grow.. and if they say they start blocking at 110%, that means with a 10 IP license it will start blocking at 11.

I would pay a resonable fee to upgrade to a littler bigger version.. say 20 IP's

As to the 1000 connection limit.. I can reach that easy.. (Bittorrent) I usually have 800 connections just on one Torrrent machine..

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any astaro reply?

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H. info: 3.2Ghz Intel P4 541+, 4096MB, 80GB/7.200 rpm/min SATA
N. info: 2x Realtek n. 10/100, Dlink 24x switch, FTTH (Optical fibers) 10 | 10Mb

I use IPv7 now... It's pretty much IPv6, but the headers contain p0rn. Saves bandwidth.

..... But in a Commercial environment, the ASG120 appliances and upwards are unlimited ...

Bet your ISP loves you then !

anyoane have tested trustix firewall ? http://firewall.trustix.com/small/features.html

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H. info: 3.2Ghz Intel P4 541+, 4096MB, 80GB/7.200 rpm/min SATA
N. info: 2x Realtek n. 10/100, Dlink 24x switch, FTTH (Optical fibers) 10 | 10Mb

I use IPv7 now... It's pretty much IPv6, but the headers contain p0rn. Saves bandwidth.

Trustix doesn't look like it is free. You should check out PFSense which includes a good firewall, small footprint, Snort and VPN.

Doesn't have content filter though but I may switch to it anyway after my v6 subscription runs out unless v7 hasn't improved by leaps and bounds.

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