Posts made by bigbear

@travisdh1 said in New Server for the office:

@coliver said in New Server for the office:

@DustinB3403 said in New Server for the office:

With any solution you're going to want to virtualize. So be it Hyper-V, XenServer, ESXi or KVM. Installing anything besides a hypervisor to bare metal really needs a very specific reason. Which I don't think you have.

You may be able to get something from @scale within that price range, but I honestly don't know.

I thought their base price was $23K. May be wrong though.

They're offering single servers now, so I'd assume around 1/3 that price, $7700.

I'd immediately check what @xByteSean has to offer.

Lenovo is a never touch company now. In addition to all the lies around superfish, the BIOS level remote access bug was only ever fixed by a password change. So if you have a Lenovo on your network, you are no longer in control of said network.

Mikrotik do make some good gear, but Ubiquiti has surpassed them in value.

I never really trust them, lol. Early on I was an AS400 admin (oh 18 years ago) and I had always been drawn to IBM. So I gave them a shot.

@wirestyle22 said in New Server for the office:

@bigbear This is a VM host machine housing one domain controller and a file server only? Is the network gear you are referring to a UTM that charges you licensing fees etc?

https://mikrotik.com/

They blow everything else away. Best hardware, best software, no-BS licensing. 20 years hardened.

I'm not close minded though, always looking. But for 3 years I have been a Microtik fanboy.

@coliver said in New Server for the office:

@bigbear said in New Server for the office:

2.) if anything better than mikrotik has surfaced I'd be surprised, but open just for sake of conversation

Check out Ubiquiti. I've never used Mikrotik so can't compare the two but I've used Ubiquiti a lot in the past and it is really solid equipment for a very inexpensive price.

Have used a lot of Ubiquiti over the years as a regional WISP. All new stuff is Mikrotek now.

There really is no comparison on the router side, Microtik is incredible. They aren't big in the US. Their hardware is killer but you can download RouterOS and run it on a VM.

You should check it out.

The morning I'm tasked with ordering some new IT stuff as our company is splitting in two -- FINALLY!

We are taking about 3TB of data. I bought Dell servers for a long time then Lenovo, so now I'm wandering what brand I should go with and then what config. I think I'm going to go with Server 2016 but also tempted to something like NextCloud on a VM and a D.C. On another VM. I'll be putting someone else in charge of daily IT so I'm not sure I want to use Linux.

I'm a die hard Mikrotik fan at least for the office network gear.

So I'm looking for feedback on what vendor and config everyone is favoring these days.

So I'm looking at...

1.) 30ish network users accessing about 10% of a 3TB file storage share, the rest always has to be available for fast browsing of just a few guys

2.) if anything better than mikrotik has surfaced I'd be surprised, but open just for sake of conversation

3.) maybe a few CAD stations getting replaced

Budget is anywhere under $10k. Could also just go with a NAS if I try Azure AD out, just really can't decide who I want to use for hardware.

I don't know how that reply ended up here...

@JaredBusch Thanks.

@NerdyDad said in Qubes OS - Using Xen to Secure Linux:

Installed Qubes and is running. I like the concept but I kind of at the point of "Okay, what now?". I attempted to install the Brave browser and keep getting blocked. My best guess right now is outside firewall because we're not a Linux house at all. Attempted to do a Yum update and discovered that yum has been deprecated and is now going to DNF. WTF?

Yeah that happened a couple years back. Everything is about pretty now.

@TMSZ said in Need a full featured softphone:

@bigbear See http://tomeko.net/software/SIPclient/howto/troubleshooting.php. One odd problem I know of is that if multiple network network interfaces are present on the machine and virtual interface is present and configured with higher priority it may require binding to "proper" interface through Settings/Network - either by IP or interface GUID as printed in log.
Other than that, you may need to register first (setting Register Expires to non-zero and other account stuff) and calling requires audio input device which may be not present if mic is not connected. Either log of wireshark should contain some clues for other problems (SIP/488, SIP/403, etc.).

Only a single nic on that machine, but I will double check and spend a little more time with it tomorrow. Looks pretty darn cool and is open source!

I could take sources and write in something more modern to add a nicer GUI.

@JaredBusch said in Need a full featured softphone:

@bigbear said in Need a full featured softphone:

Has anyone made a call with it? spent 10 seconds with it on a windows machine I pulled out but had static and disconnect.

I probably will not get to it until the weekend. I will be traveling the next to days and my laptop is a MacBook Pro.

Had lots of breaking up on the call, used just default settings and sip registration both to FreePBX and Freeswitch. Call disconnected when other extension picked up.

However it looks promising and is open source. I only messed with it for a few minutes.

I am using FreePBX and having trouble with blind transfers on 38G phones. 48g phones work fine.

You hit transfer, dial the extension, hit transfer again and the call shows (Oh Hold) while it is transferred to the extension. When that call ends it returns a "Transfer Failed" to the original operator.

Transfer Settings on my 48g and 38g are identical.

Tested across several active FreePBX deployments with the same results. Using firmware 38.70.0.185

Has anyone made a call with it? spent 10 seconds with it on a windows machine I pulled out but had static and disconnect.

@fuznutz04 said in Flowroute Down?:

@coliver said in Flowroute Down?:

@aaronstuder said in Flowroute Down?:

Is there any good way to stop this from happening in the future?

Failover trunk?

That would solve outbound calling, but not inbound.

800/toll free numbers are immune to regional outages and use a different database than the one LNP relies on.

Outages are usually upstream from a CLEC like flowroute, so the big long crash today was a rarity. Especially because it was 90 minutes before they got partial service restored.

We use them for a secondary T.38 provider because they have really good signaling correction.

Toll free numbers are immune to regional outages if you are looking for inbound redundancy. But again this was a different kind of outage.

The cost and scale that someone like flowroute provides to someone who doesn't run their own voice network is easily lost on these frustrating moments. You are getting direct access to a lot of interconnects with no commitment and well below retail rates.

Wow I haven't used handbrake since like 2005. I was really committed to converting DVD's for my kids iPod video. Are you converting bluerays?

@JaredBusch said in Need a full featured softphone:

@scottalanmiller said in Need a full featured softphone:

I know that Zoiper has a number of features. I haven't used it in a long time but might have what you need.

Zoiper only shows "Business Features" and mentions transfer and conferencing. I don't need that in the softphone because the PBX handles that.

I think they are referring to conferencing two calls together rather than conference bridge.

@JaredBusch Bria does but we license their SDK for development of our own apps.

I believe the Retail version has supported it since v3. They have done something else called workgroups that also supports sip presence.

Yeah that guy was an ass... lol

What folder on the server do you place the config files in for https?

Would love to see how you provision phones using FreePBX without endpoint manager. Been searching the Wiki but all I have found involves their EPM.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

That guy is in Crotia. A lot of Croats in for a big shock as the are in the EU now and that stuff won't fly now.

Ah Croatia..

Split - I'd sell some windows XP keys to spend another holiday there... lol

@Dashrender said in Linux Workstation Power Users - What are you running?:

@travisdh1 said in Linux Workstation Power Users - What are you running?:

@bigbear Ideal desktop? I'm happy without a GUI, personally. We've moved to mostly KDE at work. I don't like what Ubuntu and GNOME have done with the interface, but that's just personal preference.

So where do you run your browser if you don't like a GUI? or are you saying that the GUI choice doesn't matter to you as long as you get your browser?

We have a guy here who tries to use curl for everything on cent os cli. He's our Mr Robot.

I love reading and seeing what people are using in this community...

I am curious as to what Linux Desktop distro everyone is using, what Desktop Environment and what apps and services allow you to stay off Windows.

I was a Mac guy for years, switched to Unity and Ubuntu a couple years ago after being a long time Gnome holdout. We use O365 at work (not my choice) but the evolution of Office Web Apps and Outlook Web Access have allowed me to prevail.

What is everyone's ideal desktop and tools?