Anyone thought about these?

Tom


On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Tom Chadwin
<nnpait.servi...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On the same theme, two feature requests (no idea how feasible), and
> one question. The question first:
>
> Our WAN is based on the corporate version of Smoothwall,
> authenticating VPNs via certificates. Does anyone know if the Astlinux
> VPN will connect to this? At the moment, I am looking at some very
> small (single-desk) sites having both a Smoothwall and an Astlinux
> box. I'd love to eliminate the former if possible. Anyone?
>
> First request: PPPoA - is this possible in software? Most ADSL in the
> UK is PPPoA, so I have to have routers as well as Astlinux boxes. Or
> am I looking at hardware for this?
>
> Second request: load balancing of multiple WAN connections, ideally
> with MPV capability.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks
>
> Tom
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Tom Chadwin
> <nnpait.servi...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Wow. "Now that's what I call service!".
>>
>> Many thanks -  just had the most common use case for this feature with
>> upgrading to 0.6.8. A reboot is required, and I didn't want to
>> interrupt services during office hours.
>>
>> Thanks again
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Lonnie Abelbeck
>> <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> wrote:
>>> This feature request (scheduled reboot) has been added to trunk and 0.7.
>>>
>>> Lonnie
>>>
>>> On Nov 5, 2009, at 8:57 PM, Philip A. Prindeville wrote:
>>>
>>>> Lonnie Abelbeck wrote:
>>>>> On Nov 5, 2009, at 5:53 AM, Tom Chadwin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Where is it best to lodge feature requests? For the record, some of
>>>>>> mine would be:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - scheduled reboot via the GUI
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 0.7 properly supports the watchdog, automatically rebooting when the
>>>>> system is unresponsive.
>>>>>
>>>>> Are there 'issues' that requires constant reboots?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't think he wants to do it regularly... just for scheduled
>>>> reboots
>>>> unattended when no one is around.
>>>>
>>>> For instance, I might make some configuration change during office
>>>> hours, but want an automated reboot to happen at 3am.
>>>>
>>>> To answer Michael's posting: crontab seems like overkill, since
>>>> "reboot"
>>>> takes an argument (-d seconds).  The GUI could take a time in the
>>>> future, figure out the interval in seconds from now, and pass that in
>>>> the argument.
>>>>
>>>> -Philip
>>>
>>>
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