Category: Firewalls

Astaro Security Linux 2.0

We are pleased to announce the availability of Astaro Security Linux 2.0! Following major enhancements are part of Astaro Security Linux 2.0: SCSI Hard disk support (see the detailed supported Hardware list at asl-hardware.txt ) Gigabit NIC support Road warrior-VPN support via PPTP WebAdmin allows to cancel a session opened by another administrator, if urgent Login requirements exist The WebAdmin TCP port is now configurable WebAdmin support for managing virus infected emails WebAdmin support for Portscan Detection options Audible alarm to monitor the Startup (5 beeps) or Shutdown (beeps until power off) of headless firewall appliances System Up2date Service has been separated from virus pattern Up2date Service, each service has individual options (e.g. check every hour for virus pattern updates, and do system updates manually) Backup-files can be emailed automatically in user defined time intervals Additional keyboard layouts are supported during installation (US, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Netherland) Self-signed SSL certificate generation Remote logging via Syslog/SNMP (see syslog howto or snmp howto ) Proxy ARP support IP Aliases can be assigned to Network Interfaces Multiport Tulip NICs drivers have been updated The release schedule for upgrading existing users is as follows: Up2Dates for upgrading from 1.8xx will be provided beginning of September. Up2Dates for upgrading from 1.952 to Astaro Security Linux 2.0 will be released next week

[High] Up2Date 1.941 1.950

Urgency: HIGH (low, Middle, HIGH) Up2Date 1.941 Prepare Up2Date 1.950 Size: 8463 bytes   Up2Date 1.950 New   VPN IPSec Stack Tulip NIC driver   Update Up2Date process Remarks ATTENTION !!!! After Up2Date 1.950 your firewall will automatically reboot! This takes some minutes, depending on your hardware.

Astaro Security Linux 2.0 BETA5 (1.950)

We are pleased to announce the beta5 version of the next major release of Astaro Security Linux. There are quite a few new features and system improvements included – we would appreciate your test feedback to help us bringing out a rock stable 2.0 soon! Please post your feedback in the therefore specific board at www.astaro.org – thanks. We found some serious bugs (host to net VPN, NIC carrier errors) in 1.940 (2.0 BETA4), so we have decided to put out another BETA version – this one replaces 1.940 as the last in the 1.9xx beta series

Astaro Security Linux 2.0 BETA4 (1.940)

We are pleased to announce the beta4 version of the next major release of Astaro Security Linux. There are quite a few new features and system improvements included – we would appreciate your test feedback to help us bringing out a rock stable 2.0 soon! Please post your feedback in the therefore specific board at www.astaro.org – thanks.

Astaro Security Linux 2.0 BETA3 (1.930)

We are pleased to announce the beta3 version of the next major release of Astaro Security Linux. There are quite a few new features and system improvements included – we would appreciate your test feedback to help us bringing out a rock stable 2.0 soon! Please post your feedback in the therefore specific board at www.astaro.org – thanks.

[Middle] Up2Date 1.921 1.922 1.930

Urgency: Middle (low, Middle, HIGH) Up2Date 1.921 Prepare Up2Date 1.922 Size: 447 Bytes Up2Date 1.922 Size: 9366621 bytes Updates   Selfsigned SSL certificate generation Up2Date  Selfmonitoring Middleware (some small bugfixes) WebAdmin (NIC configuration bug for more then 3 NICS) Backup emailing (correct mimencoding) Up2Date 1.930 Finish Up2Date 1.922 Size: 442 Bytes All Up2Dates are GNUPG-signed! READ MORE