@scottalanmiller said in Thoughts on how I could improve my network security?:

@dave247 said in Thoughts on how I could improve my network security?:

@tim_g said in Thoughts on how I could improve my network security?:

@scottalanmiller said in Thoughts on how I could improve my network security?:

There are places where router and firewall merge and can't be pulled apart - and that is NAT. A NAT translation is assumed to be part of the routing functions, but is a firewall. NAT literally makes the router and the firewall be the same component and function. Of course, in theory, you can have a router that doesn't do NAT, but in the real world, no one has made one since the early 1990s, and maybe not even then.

Exactly. When packets reach the NAT and have nowhere to go, they get dropped. That's firewall.

Yeah, NAT is also not the firewall.

But it is. NAT is a form of firewall. You can't NAT without firewall. But you also can't NAT without router. It's where the two are forced to overlap.

oh right... forgot about the base NAT policies. I was wrong there.

@DustinB3403 said:

I'm making a new topic as I want to pick your brain on this in the SMB space.

Okay

http://www.mangolassi.it/topic/60/our-community-guidelines/2

It appears that I need to make some things clear in our guidelines once again. @thanksajdotcom especially please read these over again.

Yes, the number of people who are out there looking for "whatever is called Elastix" is way more than enough to keep the website and brand name around. Elastix has a huge presence in South America and in LATAM countries in general alone.

@Dashrender said:

@MattSpeller said:

@Dashrender said:

@MattSpeller said:

This thread somehow has more posts than views lol

In a single view I posted probably 15 times.

Passionate thread then...

backs away slowly

Well, when you go to lunch and come back an hour later to 40 new posts..

I tell ya.. I love the fact that you can post while in the middle of a thread and it doesn't take you to the end of the thread anymore... it leaves you there.

This way I can read, make a response, keep reading, another response, etc.

yeah, that is a big improvement.

What are you looking for from FreePBX? Other than a download link, which should be pretty clear, what more is there to find?

@smartkid808 said in Gaming Rig Issues:

@travisdh1 haha, true on the waiting part. something always better is going to come out.

I will go ahead and pick up the 2700x.. Wish they had CPU only, as I don't need the cooler as I just got a new one last month, but I don't see one anywhere like how the 1700x was.

You should test the CPU/memory/MB system before doing anything. Search for memtest86.

How did this project go?

I wouldn't like to see the end of 365, but I would always like to see good competition to Microsoft, a leopard never changes its spots in my eyes and Microsoft have history with all the previous court cases in some of their dodgy practices and monopolisation..they slagged off Linux to high heaven in the older days and now their embracing it? Might be something to do with Microsoft using it as part of their azure backend.

You can't doubt they make some excellent products but they have always ripped people off and most of their licencing models are complete shit...I think in a few years people will be moaning to high hell once all their subscription models have been increased through the roof and Microsoft know you won't go over to Google now as their Google apps/g suite has been left in the dust.

Microsoft are far from a perfect company and it does iritate me when people di*k ride and never see any fault with them and a lot and most are Linux haters I find as well...

@aaronstuder said in Building Out XenServer 6.5 with USB Boot and Software RAID 10:

Confirmed Working 😄

Awesome, thanks.

@scottalanmiller said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:

So what ever came of this MSP conversation?

I never had to talk to him. Emails relayed through the business owner went back and fourth about getting the domain name transferred and that was it.

I did end up keeping a list of everything I found that was wrong because that was the worst environment I have ever seen - maintained by a "professional" or not.

/proc doesn't differ too much with LXC.

[root@acl-jira ~]# ls /proc 1 24924 24951 25368 275 322 bus diskstats interrupts key-users locks net slabinfo thread-self zoneinfo 12471 24925 24952 25369 295 323 cgroups dma iomem kmsg mdstat pagetypeinfo softirqs timer_list 12581 24926 24953 25370 316 54 cmdline driver ioports kpagecgroup meminfo partitions stat tty 24897 24937 24955 25381 318 56 consoles execdomains irq kpagecount misc sched_debug swaps uptime 24908 24938 25157 25382 319 69 cpuinfo fb kallsyms kpageflags modules schedstat sys version 24909 24939 25258 25383 32 acpi crypto filesystems kcore latency_stats mounts scsi sysrq-trigger vmallocinfo 24910 24950 25286 25386 320 buddyinfo devices fs keys loadavg mtrr self sysvipc vmstat [scott@lax-lnx-jump proc]$ ls /proc 1 112 2 24453 24612 31 38 427 532 644 674 759 acpi diskstats ioports kpageflags mtrr softirqs uptime 10 12 20 24455 24613 32 39 428 557 645 676 8 buddyinfo dma irq latency_stats net stat version 100 13 21 24460 24621 326 393 429 598 646 677 9 bus driver kallsyms loadavg pagetypeinfo swaps vmallocinfo 101 13532 21810 24461 2599 33 4 43 599 647 681 9133 cgroups execdomains kcore locks partitions sys vmstat 102 14 22 24510 27 332 403 430 6 648 682 9214 cmdline fb keys mdstat sched_debug sysrq-trigger zoneinfo 103 15 23 24512 28 34 421 431 612 654 683 968 consoles filesystems key-users meminfo schedstat sysvipc 105 16 23974 24520 29 35 424 432 613 659 684 969 cpuinfo fs kmsg misc scsi thread-self 106 17 24 24562 3 36 425 44 615 662 694 98 crypto interrupts kpagecgroup modules self timer_list 11 18 24449 24568 30 37 426 517 643 664 752 99 devices iomem kpagecount mounts slabinfo tty

Container on top. KVM on bottom.

So following on from the Other thread.

Looks like i'm heading to the Install KVM, setup a Linux VM and use that to manage the KVM server from that.

@WrCombs said in Windows 10 Reboots:

So it was not a windows issue - It was the software running two or more instances of our mobile software at one time after a refresh.
What was happening was the software would restart, then try to open 2 or more at the same time causing the system to error and restart to try to clear it it's self.
Made changes to the settings in the system config files and have tested with 3 different refreshes today - It has not rebooted once.
Thanks for all the help with figuring this one out. I think i've gained a wealth of knowledge from this thread.

to expand on this - the back office becomes one of the "terminals" as an interface. When the refresh was happening the "back office terminal" was the culprit.

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I'm with you on Google Apps. It's a good product but it is very limited and doesn't have the look and feel of modern apps. I don't like using Gmail either. It's unnecessarily quirky and busy. Google doesn't make things as fun to use or as easy to use as they could.

I think that the Chromebook model is better than it seems. Only problem is is that businesses are struggling to adapt to it. But it is a business problem and failing, not a Google one. Google supplies the tools, business can't grok them.

In the same vein, the Linux world has everything businesses need and have for a decade or more and yet almost no businesses have cares to go down the 100% Linux path regardless of the massive savings and ease of use once the transition is over.

Apropos

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@JaredBusch said in Windows Server 2016 Pricing:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2016 Pricing:

@travisdh1 said in Windows Server 2016 Pricing:

@jt1001001 said in Windows Server 2016 Pricing:

Didn't VmWare try licensing by RAM not too terribly long ago?

I don't think they licensing by RAM so much as limit the amount of RAM you're allowed to use according to license type. The free tier was really quite limited, is it still 128GB?

That's kind of the same thing 🙂

That is also not very limited at all. Most SMB do not have that much in their servers. If they have more, they bought too much.

Same for cores. Most SMBs that have more than sixteen per server bought too much, often way too much. Especially if they are Intel cores.

@BBigford said:

@Dashrender said:

@BBigford said:

@Dashrender said:

The obscurity that you're going to is the move to Linux and the fact that the malware writers haven't bothered to write malware for Linux yet.

MAC users could say the same thing, until they couldn't. It's been several months or more now since a MAC variant of ransomware has been available.

See, you could have previously just as easily said - I want to move everyone to a MAD because there's no ransomware there, well that would have worked until it didn't... the same WILL happen to Linux.

But you can skip the entire concern of this specific avenue of problem by moving to SharePoint or ownCloud.

I'm not saying move to Linux because only Windows gets viruses. I'm saying I want to move to Linux because I hate Windows. Maybe that was too subtle...

oh, yeah it was too subtle, because hating windows has nothing to do with the security hole we were talking about.

I'm just trying to find any good excuse to switch, give me a break! If I can twist the subject into a justified transition, you bet I will. 🙂

ROFLOL

@scottalanmiller said in Final Call ... XenServer Boot Media:

I added sparse files and lastlog to the SAM Linux guide so that I remember to cover them in a upcoming installment.

You are going to have to make a chapter called BRRABill Questions/Requests.