@Oksana Does KVM have a chance? It's the only game in town. VMware is such a backwater of out of date, out of touch, "why would anyone use this" tech. If you use KVM, then you use VMware, it's like going from living in a beach front mansion to a caveman's cave where they are still pooping in a dark corner in the back.
VMware has been dead tech for years. It's so antiquated like they think it is the 2005 era.
And what good timing as ScreenConnect / ConnectWise was just compromised.
@DustinB3403 said in MeshCentral Future:
I was actually considering rolling this out with where I'm at we use a different IdP, which has this same sort of functionality built in, but I'm not a fan of it..
MC continues to be the best thing I've ever used. And our deployment of it is so massive. Thousands of devices, hundreds or maybe a thousand users now. We use it so heavily and it's just a tank.
@AdamF said in MeshCentral Future:
@scottalanmiller said in MeshCentral Future:
1.1.21 is out now. Updating...
How did this go for you, @scottalanmiller ? I tried updating last evening and the gui never came back. Then after a reboot, the proper ports weren't even open on the web server. I didn't have time to troubleshoot at the time, so I rolled back from a snapshot. Any "gotchas" to be aware of?
Weird. No issues at all for us. Haven't (looks around for wood to knock on) had an update failure in years.
Build a super dedicated, fully cooled, fully wired, LARGE space with room to move about data closet on a raised floor.
Think of it another way...
Two random computers anywhere on the Internet are isolated from each other. I can't randomly send data to an ad hoc computer somewhere on the Internet. But we aren't air gapped.
So "isolated" is a super low bar. If I'm at my house and you are at your house and we are both online we are isolated. So isolated is the default state of most computer users. But air gapping is an extreme measure that goes dramatically beyond that so that no amount of technical hacking could ever, physically, breach the gap. You have to social engineer a human to connect the computer to something in order to remove the air gap in order to hack it.
@DustinB3403 said in Define Air Gapped Networks:
@IThomeboy80 said in Define Air Gapped Networks:
I think it is isolated from the rest of the network. This is to ensure that data and intellectual property are kept safely guarded.
Right, but isolated from the "rest of the network" doesn't mean that it is isolated from the rest of the world.
Or are you suggesting that it does?
Well the "rest of hte world" is a connection between the two. So while "the outside world" itself isn't a problem, both can't be on the Internet without being connected to each other.
@Obsolesce said in Define Air Gapped Networks:
@DustinB3403 said in Define Air Gapped Networks:
When using terminology like "Air Gapped" what is your first impression of it?
When I see someone say they have an air gapped network, I think it to mean that the network is separate from the rest of the organization (through a physical disconnect), and that Air Gapped, does not imply the lack of internet.
Air Gapped != Without InternetWhat's your opinion?
An air gapped network is indeed physically isolated from other networks, but the key yiur missing is that it is also isolated from the Internet. The primary characteristic being lack of any connection to outside networks, including the internet.
It's not the "connection to the outside" that violates the air gap, the issue is that if BOTH networks connect to the Internet or any shared network, it clearly isn't air gapped. Air gapped systems can never talk to each other without a different mechanism passing messages in between that crosses the air gap.
@IThomeboy80 said in Define Air Gapped Networks:
I think it is isolated from the rest of the network. This is to ensure that data and intellectual property are kept safely guarded.
Definitely isolated, but it HAS to be isolated by a lack of connection.
If you hack a normally isolated network's infrastructure, you need nothing more to violate the isolation.
If you hack an air gapped network infrastructure, you have to further hack a human (or robot) to remove the air gap in order to violate the isolation.
@GUIn00b said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Contemplating how to leverage 2 ISP's for supplemental bandwidth when needed using 2 separate routers that are both servicing the same LAN.
......So I'm gonna go post a new topic!
Saw the post. It's not a fun thing. What I did when I had this was I just separated things by machine. Some machines used one connection and some the other based on their workloads. It was "static" but let me use both.
What are you doing that LANCACHE is useful for? Do you install the same games to several computers inside your house?
I agree as a starting point, a single router with dual WANs is key. Otherwise your individual devices have to manage their point of egress, instead of you having central control of it.
@stacksofplates said in TMUX: hype or function:
Once really nice thing about tmux is you can keep jobs running in the session after disconnecting from SSH
Which means, for those who miss the implication, that you can reconnect to the same session from a different location.
@travisdh1 said in TMUX: hype or function:
Off the top of my head, tmux is like screen. It's a way to manage multiple terminal sessions.
Yeah, it's like an upgraded screen I think. Screen is fine for me and I started on that. Useful tools, not sure if there is much "hype" around them.
Trying out the free Minecraft servers from https://aternos.org
This makes things a lot more handy.
@RojoLoco said in Cloud Based Auto-Attendant:
@Danp said in Cloud Based Auto-Attendant:
@DustinB3403 I used RC in the past, and it should be able to handle this without issue. You should only need to pay for a single user for this to work.
We currently use RC. Honestly, as much as I want to bag on it, I can't. It works, all the time. The only thing I ever have to touch on RC is add/remove users.
If you are only doing a single line or two, RC is basically unbeatable. Get beyond that, they start getting pretty pricey.
@DustinB3403 said in Cloud Based Auto-Attendant:
@gjacobse said in Cloud Based Auto-Attendant:
I'm ONLY suggesting this as we are moving all of our sites to it. Scalable, handling routing, extension to Paging adapter and more.
RingCentral
May be an option.
How would I setup an IVR or Auto-Attendant on it? I don't need to it to do anything other than to route calls from the "office number" to a cell phone and maybe have VM to Email (but this is TBD).
You do it as a FULL phone system.
@gjacobse said in Cloud Based Auto-Attendant:
I'm ONLY suggesting this as we are moving all of our sites to it. Scalable, handling routing, extension to Paging adapter and more.
RingCentral
May be an option.
That's MORE than standing up FreePBX though, not less.
@DustinB3403 said in Cloud Based Auto-Attendant:
It seems like everyone offers this, yet only as a part of other bundles... and standing up freepbx for something like this seems like overkill...
Well, at the end of the day, that's what's happening more or less. It's a full phone system no matter how you slice or dice it. So FreePBX or similar makes sense.
