Tom,

You'll need to tell us what VPN is being used.  Several VPN's can use 
certificates to authenticate.

How does PPPoA differ from PPPoE?

Darrick

Tom Chadwin wrote:
> Anyone thought about these?
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Tom Chadwin
> <[email protected]> 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
>> <[email protected]> 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
>>> <[email protected]> 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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