Bruce, I'd have to echo what Mike said. By most accounts, Trixbox is already doing alot. It's a webserver running the admin, user and CRM interfaces, it's the switch, it's running several databases, fax software, it runs a full debug log by default (watch for that on a high volume production box), and it's generally trying to be alot of things to alot of people.
I'm not sure if you made it out to Philip's presentation on Wednesday but it seems you can build a very very capable router with some relatively modest hardware with PFsense. If your requirements are more basic, consider M0n0wall. Or, if you're a little bit adventurous and want to mix asterisk with a firewall, look at Astlinux. It has a mode where it comes up as a secure router running Asterisk. It supports PPOE, VPN and a bunch of other cool things and you don't even need to install it on a box to try it out. You can boot from a CD and save your settings to a USB key. I've played a tiny bit with each of these things and they all have some pretty cool features and they all run in a liveCD mode. Trixbox just has alot of userIDs setup with default passwords that may not be documented but some geek is going to figure them out and exploit them. That's bearable when it's inside your network but I wouldn't connect it to the wild world over a sympatico connection. It would be an interesting experiment to see, but I'd be that box a base install of Trixbox connected to an open sympatico connection would be port scanned dozens of times within a day and probably completely taken over within a few days. Not that you were going to hook it up without changing the passwords but my point is they're not too secure. Having said that, I thought I saw an article (possibly on NerdVittles?) about hardening a TrixBox. I found the though bizarre so I didn't click the link. It seem to me that you would no sooner get it tied down than the some update would come out, or a package would get installed that either re-opened a port or failed to work because some port had been locked down. I'm sure that a reall OSS/Linux/Firewall/.../... nerd could do it but I gather that such a person would probably have installed all the packages manually, optimized hundreds of things, and would have very little use for a distro like Trixbox. You're not the first to consider it or ask about it so I'm sure there are lots of other silent lurkers thinking the same thing. I just thought I'd share my thoughts on it. For the record: I'm not a TrixBox hater. I'm running it on a couple of boxes. I just think it's important to be realistic about what it was intended to do. Dave On 7/28/06, Bruce Nik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello everyone, Which files should I alter to setup the asterisk box to connect directly to sympatico DSL? Where can I input the username and pwd for the DSL modem if I connect the box directly to it? Thanks, Bruce ________________________________ Play Q6 for your chance to WIN great prizes. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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