Hi Everyone. Today you get some new unreleased stuff to play with!
With the release of Astaro Security Gateway 8.100, (which will be GA in just a few hours but it is already there for the soft-release as well), I can inform you that we have introduced an unpublished implementation of a feature: support for USB 3G/UMTS modems. This feature allows for these cellular USB-connected devices or “sticks to be used as Internet interface with your Astaro. The support of these devices lets you add cheap redundancy, or connectivity at temporary sites, remote locations, or areas without a good selection of affordable Internet connections. You can add 3G/UMTS connections to the ASG’s WAN (Internet) link balancing pool to increase total overall bandwidth. 3G interfaces are also supported when creating specific balancing rules.
Until this feature is been officially integrated (this is planned for the V8.200 release of ASG in the first half of 2011), full documentation and official support for these USB modems will not be available. However during these next months we would like to invite you to test our current abilities with the products available from the cellular providers in your area. Report results here when using ASG with the 3G/UMTS modems available to you.
Your feedback will let us refine this feature and give us a wide testing bed of devices which we can release 8.200 with. During testing, if you encounter problems with a certain device, please do let us know. We may contact you via email to suggest some parameters which might be adjusted to successfully let ASG work with what you are testing.
To use it, just plugin a stick, then reboot and look for it in the Interfaces list. It should then be usable. If you are command line saavy, you will see the interface in CC and can edit certain 3G/UMTS only parameters if needed. Please remember, this is a Beta feature and not finished, if you use it in someplace critical it might fail horribly on you.
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