@syko24 said in ANYONE USING VULTR FIREWALL WITH FREEPBX:

@scottalanmiller said in ANYONE USING VULTR FIREWALL WITH FREEPBX:

Example, you have ten servers including databases, application servers, proxies, etc. And you only want the proxies exposed to the Internet, not the other machines. But they need to be exposed to each other. So the firewall exists to ensure that traffic cannot get to them, even though their own firewalls cannot close all of those ports because they need to see traffic from your "Vultr LAN."

Makes sense, most setups I have done on Vultr have been single server setups - FreePBX or NextCloud. I haven't really built out a full network of systems on their platform.

Not many have as there weren't firewall options before 😉

This is all part of why I dislike unRAID. Not only do they offer literally nothing that I can tell of value, but they act like a bunch of normal features are special. They pretend that they are doing something special with KVM and Docker and RAID 4 - all things that you already have in equal or superior form, for free, with an enterprise Linux distro. Install Fedora for free, and you have a simpler, safer, more powerful alternative to unRAID that is only upsides, I think. More power, less effort, less cost, easier to support, easier to get support.

Guest additions are a big deal. It should have sped up considerably after you installed them.

Cockpit has come a long way in the last year or two. It's kind of leading the industry as far as nice interfaces. Still early without a ton of functionality, but it is getting better and better.

@scottalanmiller said in Bricked ERX:

@fuznutz04 said in Bricked ERX:

@jaredbusch said in Bricked ERX:

@fuznutz04 said in Bricked ERX:

@dbeato said in Bricked ERX:

@fuznutz04 Same method to fix bricked APs, that's how I have done it sometimes is not worth it if there is a part that needs to be soldered.

This experience solidified the fact that the Er-lite is just better. It has much more storage, so replacing firmware shouldn't be an issue. I think that was the whole problem. There was not enough memory to hold the new firmware file, and due to that, something borked itself.

It is supposed to delete the prior backup image before downloading the new one. So that should not be the issue.

Well then I'm not sure what the actual cause was. I performed the update as I normally do, but this time the upload failed. Oh well. I'm over it already. 🙂

Just happens sometimes. Used to happen all the freaking time in the 1990s.

Oh yeah, I've bricked a couple before.

Not really the same thing, but still counts as bricking: My first ever PC build...I was so excited, went to a computer show, got all the parts, built the thing, fired it up, and smoke poured out. I had a metal standoff in the wrong place, and it shorted the board.

@stacksofplates said in ZeroTier Devices Going online and offline:

I know @JaredBusch was getting offline notifications but I don’t recall if they were actually going offline or if it was just the notifications going wonky.

Notifications are a paid feature. I have not been getting any lately.

H310 is not meant to be a RAID controller, it might do passthrough well.

@reid-cooper said in How to Layer Your Security Needs:

@jmoore said in How to Layer Your Security Needs:

@reid-cooper said in How to Layer Your Security Needs:

@jmoore said in How to Layer Your Security Needs:

@reid-cooper said in How to Layer Your Security Needs:

And training your users, I didn't see that mentioned. That might be the biggest thing.

Good points and your probably right on the training

And beatings, user beatings are often necessary as well.

lol I will remember that but then some of the ladies might not bring me home made tamales and chocolate chip cookies...

Or maybe they will bring more!

Excellent point!

@wrx7m said in Lenovo X220 Security Risks:

@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo X220 Security Risks:

@wrx7m said in Lenovo X220 Security Risks:

@scottalanmiller - If you did a fresh install/custom image that didn't come from Lenovo, how would it be compromised?

For some Lenovo products, the compromises are hidden in the UEFI and get installed directly from the hardware. For others, they are the only available drivers for the hardware (Lenovo uses modified hardware so that it doesn't match generic drivers) so any working drivers end up bringing the compromises with them. Lenovo's claim to fame is getting past any and all "if I did this, how would the hack me" statements. They've made their hardware itself compromised in some cases.

I had an annoying experience with their support recently when they ddin't have a mobo in stock for the owner's yoga thinkpad 460 for almost a month. I wasted so much time calling them several times a day and getting the run-around. I can't tell you the number of times a different person told me, "I don't know who told you that, but that is not correct".

I am looking at going back to Dell. We use Dell for desktops and servers but I did like the thinkpads better (and so do my users).

I've had zero good dealings with Lenovo. Even the better ones aren't good and the bad ones are really bad.

Possible, if you can find one cheaply.

Agree, avoid Adblock Plus.

Apparently this got abandoned.

But without asset data, not nearly as bad.

If you want to mitigate the risks of needing to pull down data from Glacier, take a local backup to a USB drive, as well. Pretty cheap to do these days. And would protect against nearly all situations where you might need to download from Glacier.

You can force caller ID however you want. It is just a matter of the specific customization.

By default, these are your only options. You would have to get into a custom Asterisk context to do more.
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And your iPhone will show is as a number from what ever country code matches the first part of the extension. (5100 will show as Peru).

I used a CID prefix in one situation. doesn't come through to my cell phone, but passes through an IAX2 trunk to my desk phone nicely.

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@travisdh1 said in 2 RAID 1 or 1 RAID 10 for VM Server Host:

@scottalanmiller said in 2 RAID 1 or 1 RAID 10 for VM Server Host:

@kuyaz said in 2 RAID 1 or 1 RAID 10 for VM Server Host:

since I use raid 1 for sata hdd. Can i upgrade to raid 10 in future without losing data? Assuming i use software raid MD.

No, there is really no software or controller that will let you move from RAID 1 to RAID 10. You will need to delete and recreate to do that.

You could create another RAID1 or 10 and add that as another physical volume to the LVM. @scottalanmiller is correct, you wouldn't change the RAID level.

That ends up being a span, which sucks. You can do it when you have to, but it sucks.

CL isn't THAT bad, but they aren't very good.

@storageninja said in Arg! The money spent the month before I stated here.:

@scottalanmiller said in Arg! The money spent the month before I stated here.:

@storageninja said in Arg! The money spent the month before I stated here.:

Most companies IT is "mature" at this point (Hell SABRE is like 70 years old) and if your company runs on it, you're stuck with a choice of spending a few hundred million to get off of it, or accepting you don't control your own code.

Pretty sure everyone has accepted that the choice to stay on SABRE has crippled the industry and that they would have all been better moving off of it.

A 2-3 year project that costs 9-11 figures depending on your size? Good luck getting a bored to approve and see that thru in an industry that is tied to the boom/bust cycle of oil prices.

You are using the "people make bad decisions, so we should make bad decisions" logic. If the logic for using a UTM is "we won't do smart things" then we are back to "people use UTMs mistakenly."

@dustinb3403 You're welcome ! Glad you got it sorted.

@nerdydad said in How to Shaping , Sizing Virtual resources , safe running VMs on VMware infra?.. And How to calculate how many VMs are running on single host server, it helps to face unplanned downtime when one host goes fail down??:

900:1 shows that something is not right with your calculations somewhere. That would also mean that you have on average 10.5 TB of RAM allocated to each and every VM in the cluster. Why would a VM need 10.5 TB of RAM? The

Someone doing build testing of in-memory database scaling (Functional, not actual performance) and they are using the SWAP to SSD to redirect the memory SWAP to an Intel Octane device, or NVMe drives so it doesn't completely crash 🙂