Re: [Astlinux-users] Feature requests

2010-02-15 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
David, Ranting is allowed :-) The process of knowing about AstLinux, downloading it, etc. all but requires a person to look at www.astlinux.org (and doc.astlinux.org), particularly with the new website. If a person has an AstLinux question, the goto place should be www.astlinux.org, and go fr

Re: [Astlinux-users] Feature requests

2010-02-15 Thread Chris Abnett
ebruary 15, 2010 12:33 PM To: AstLinux Users Mailing List; Tom Chadwin Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Feature requests Not sure I understand the reluctance to including a link to astlinux.org, it is afterall the 'astlinux' domain and therefore under control of the developers... The same fol

Re: [Astlinux-users] Feature requests

2010-02-15 Thread David Kerr
Not sure I understand the reluctance to including a link to astlinux.org, it is afterall the 'astlinux' domain and therefore under control of the developers... The same folks that could update the GUI if anything ever changes. You always come back to suggesting the user configurable link on the p

Re: [Astlinux-users] Feature requests

2010-02-15 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
On Feb 15, 2010, at 4:59 AM, Tom Chadwin wrote: > Open for discussion: > > 1. Link to doc.astlinux.org on footer of all Astlinux GUI pages Possibly http://doc.astlinux.org/userdoc:documentation "AstLinux Documentation" at the bottom of the Status tab, but I have misgivings of automatically de

[Astlinux-users] Feature requests

2010-02-15 Thread Tom Chadwin
Open for discussion: 1. Link to doc.astlinux.org on footer of all Astlinux GUI pages 2. GUI selection of hardware - since the only Astlinux-specific setting is adding eg DAHDIMODS, it wouldn't be much work to make this gui-driven. Have an Add Hardware page, allowing the selection of TDM, ISDN car

Re: [Astlinux-users] Feature requests

2009-11-13 Thread Philip A. Prindeville
On 11/13/2009 11:46 AM, Darren Grant wrote: > On 13 Nov 2009, at 19:02, Philip A. Prindeville wrote: > > >> Strangely enough Tom, ADSL hardware that does PPPoA is supported in >> 0.7. Really. >> >> > Because PCI ADSL cards do not require any special support for PPPoA as ATM is > the tran

Re: [Astlinux-users] Feature requests

2009-11-13 Thread Darren Grant
On 13 Nov 2009, at 19:02, Philip A. Prindeville wrote: > Strangely enough Tom, ADSL hardware that does PPPoA is supported in > 0.7. Really. > Because PCI ADSL cards do not require any special support for PPPoA as ATM is the transport layer that is dealt with on the hardware of the card. The

Re: [Astlinux-users] Feature requests

2009-11-13 Thread Philip A. Prindeville
Strangely enough Tom, ADSL hardware that does PPPoA is supported in 0.7. Really. Keep in mind that 0.7 was in the works for 20+ months. A lot of stuff went into it. You'll need the Solos ADSL card. You can get it from Traverse Technologies or one of their distributors like Yawarra in Oz. A

Re: [Astlinux-users] Feature requests

2009-11-13 Thread Tom Chadwin
> I believe the Solos card that Philip added to trunk (and 0.7) > will support this. > > http://www.traverse.com.au/productview.php?product_id=116 > > There may be single port cards that may work as well. Just when I thought my need for two PCI slots had been solved, and I could continue with the

Re: [Astlinux-users] Feature requests

2009-11-13 Thread Darrick Hartman
Tom Chadwin wrote: > I am being told Smoothwall uses FreeS/WAN for its IPSec functionality > (www.freeswan.org) - compatible with Astlinux IPSec? > > Thanks Astlinux uses racoon for IPSec functionality. Right now site to site functionality is present. "Road Warrior" support is not available in

Re: [Astlinux-users] Feature requests

2009-11-13 Thread Tom Chadwin
I am being told Smoothwall uses FreeS/WAN for its IPSec functionality (www.freeswan.org) - compatible with Astlinux IPSec? Thanks Tom On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Darrick Hartman wrote: > Tom, > > You'll need to tell us what VPN is being used.  Several VPN's can use > certificates to authe

Re: [Astlinux-users] Feature requests

2009-11-13 Thread Darrick Hartman
Darren Grant wrote: > On 13 Nov 2009, at 15:57, Darrick Hartman wrote: > >> 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 the

Re: [Astlinux-users] Feature requests

2009-11-13 Thread Darren Grant
On 13 Nov 2009, at 15:57, Darrick Hartman wrote: > 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 W

Re: [Astlinux-users] Feature requests

2009-11-13 Thread Michael Keuter
>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? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-Point_Protocol_over_ATM >Darrick > >Tom Chadwin wrote: >> Anyone thought about these? >> >> Tom >> >> >> On W

Re: [Astlinux-users] Feature requests

2009-11-13 Thread Darrick Hartman
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 > wrote: >> On the same theme, two

Re: [Astlinux-users] Feature requests

2009-11-13 Thread Tom Chadwin
Anyone thought about these? Tom On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Tom Chadwin 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. Doe

Re: [Astlinux-users] Feature requests

2009-11-11 Thread Tom Chadwin
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 s

Re: [Astlinux-users] Feature requests

2009-11-10 Thread Tom Chadwin
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 wrote: > This

Re: [Astlinux-users] Feature requests

2009-11-05 Thread Philip A. Prindeville
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

Re: [Astlinux-users] Feature requests

2009-11-05 Thread Philip A. Prindeville
David Kerr wrote: > > > - support for attaching USB storage to net5501 (or other platform), > and have this available as a Windows share (I've read about this with > some Linksys routers) > > > If you add a line like this... > > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /home/ftp/usb > > to your mnt/kd/r

Re: [Astlinux-users] Feature requests

2009-11-05 Thread Tom Chadwin
Absolutely accepted. Scratch that. Thanks Tom On 5 Nov 2009, at 21:33, "Philip A. Prindeville" wrote: > 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 >> >> - support for attaching

Re: [Astlinux-users] Feature requests

2009-11-05 Thread Philip A. Prindeville
Philip A. Prindeville wrote: > 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 >> >> - support for attaching USB storage to net5501 (or other platform), >> and have this available as a

Re: [Astlinux-users] Feature requests

2009-11-05 Thread Philip A. Prindeville
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 > > - support for attaching USB storage to net5501 (or other platform), > and have this available as a Windows share (I've read about this with > so