Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Box as a Router, Firewall and DHCP Server
Samy Antoun wrote: Sorry I'm late. How about a shameless plug for my distro - AstLinux. Kris, I was taking a look at your site yesterday, great work. One day I'll get a Soekris and try it out. I'm downloading the PC distro now to give it a try. Appreciate your work Samy ps. Why you are not listed in distrowatch.com Sammy, Thanks for the tip! I just sent them an e-mail, but their site does say that embedded distros are not accepted into the general list. I think it's debatable whether or not AstLinux is embedded. I think the one problem that I have is the impression that AstLinux is only for Soekris hardware - not the case! I get more than twice as many downloads for the generic i586 image! -- Kristian Kielhofner ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Box as a Router, Firewall and DHCP Server
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 08:27:31PM -0700, Samy Antoun wrote: Hi, I'm planning to get my Asterisk box out of the LAN, get rid of my router and make the box acts as a Router, Firewall, DHCP Server (with Shorewall). Regarding the DHCP part: On Rapid we added dnsmasq as an the dns/dhcp server (not installed by default). This is also what we use in our office. It is very simple to use. If you enble in /etc/dnsmasq.conf read-ethers then making a reservation is as simple as adding an entry to /etc/ethers (and you can use host names from /etc/hosts in /etc/ethers, keeping the IPs to /etc/hosts alone). So I hearlt recommend dnsmasq (version 2). Don't waste time on trying to set up bind and ISC-dhcpd :-) -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Box as a Router, Firewall and DHCP Server
I'm planning to get my Asterisk box out of the LAN, get rid of my router and make the box acts as a Router, Firewall, DHCP Server (with Shorewall). I'll do that to be able to use some SIP clients remotely. Does anyone doing the same with the Asterisk box, is it a good idea, is there any other solution for the SIP emote Clients. I'm new here but have to go ahead and throw in a reply - I'm doing something very similar to this but in a different way... I have a FreeBSD box that is already set up to be my router/firewall/IDS/MySQL server. I'm working on getting it set up with Asterisk... just got it working with FWD and a Packet8 DTA based phone. I have to admit, there's a lot of stuff to wrap your head around with this stuff! Hatton ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Box as a Router, Firewall and DHCP Server
Samy, Sorry I'm late. How about a shameless plug for my distro - AstLinux. It sounds like it may work well for your needs: http://www.kriscompanies.com/modules.php?name=Contentpa=showpagepid=3 -- Kristian Kielhofner Hi, I like the look of this, however I'm not ready to go the full soekris route just yet. Is it possible to run this on a i586 but without CF, eg using the hard disk for booting etc? Can I get rid of the CD once its booted? (I tried using a USB pen drive and genkd but got an error when I ran it.) Thanks Mike ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Box as a Router, Firewall and DHCP Server
El mié, 01-06-2005 a las 22:27, Samy Antoun escribió: I'm planning to get my Asterisk box out of the LAN, get rid of my router and make the box acts as a Router, Firewall, DHCP Server (with Shorewall). I'll do that to be able to use some SIP clients remotely. Does anyone doing the same with the Asterisk box, is it a good idea, is there any other solution for the SIP emote Clients. Regards. Works fine for me, but I have my Asterisk behind another Linux iptables firewall cause the DoS and the mass attacks (perhaps you will use MySQL too), a lot of danger for you. I don't use DHCP for external clients, but we authenticate MAC address by iptables. Regards, -- Ing CIP Alejandro Celi Mariátegui [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Box as a Router, Firewall and DHCP Server
El mié, 01-06-2005 a las 22:27, Samy Antoun escribió: I'm planning to get my Asterisk box out of the LAN, get rid of my router and make the box acts as a Router, Firewall, DHCP Server (with Shorewall). I'll do that to be able to use some SIP clients remotely. Does anyone doing the same with the Asterisk box, is it a good idea, is there any other solution for the SIP emote Clients. Regards. I do exactly this. It works fine. My firewall (on the box) blocks all the ports I don't want to show publicly. /edg ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Box as a Router, Firewall and DHCP Server
On Wednesday 01 June 2005 23:27, Samy Antoun wrote: Hi, I'm planning to get my Asterisk box out of the LAN, get rid of my router and make the box acts as a Router, Firewall, DHCP Server (with Shorewall). I'll do that to be able to use some SIP clients remotely. Does anyone doing the same with the Asterisk box, is it a good idea, is there any other solution for the SIP emote Clients. Regards. It really depends on what kind of load that cpu is going to have. There's no technical problems with doing the above. Except I don't see the point with having a dhcp server, unless you are an ISP. My anti dhcp speech: DHCP makes it hard to see who's connection/packets you are looking at when you are checking out what is going on on the LAN. You won't be able to learn the typical activities that people do, and so be able to recognise odd behavor. Every time you see an IP you have to figure out who it belongs to. The work to add a specific IP is so short anyway. Router and Firewall services are not very consuming, nor is a DHCP server. But the idea is that if you start having quality problems or you are going to push the box, you'd be smart to have absolutely nothing running but what you actually need. A well configured Linux box is usually better than an off the shelve dedicated appliance. They have too many money vs technical issues and technology suffers. That's pretty much true with all of them. -- Steve Szmidt They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Box as a Router, Firewall and DHCP Server
On my * box at home (a dual PIII 1.2Ghz with 512Mb RAM), I'm running * (2 single-port FXO cards and SIP/IAX upstreams), MythTV (home theatre SW), file print services and other ancillary services. I have enough CPU grunt to decode video (watch DivX) and talk on the phone (inc transcoding). * on it's own is reasonably light on resources. Go for it! == Rod Bacon - VOIP Systems Engineer Empowered Communications Ground Floor, 102 York St. South Melbourne Victoria, Australia. 3205 Phone: +613 99401600Fax: +613 99401650 == Samy Antoun wrote: Hi, I'm planning to get my Asterisk box out of the LAN, get rid of my router and make the box acts as a Router, Firewall, DHCP Server (with Shorewall). I'll do that to be able to use some SIP clients remotely. Does anyone doing the same with the Asterisk box, is it a good idea, is there any other solution for the SIP emote Clients. Regards. __ Discover Yahoo! Stay in touch with email, IM, photo sharing and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/stayintouch.html ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Box as a Router, Firewall and DHCP Server
It really depends on what kind of load that cpu is going to have. There's no technical problems with doing the above. Except I don't see the point with having a dhcp server, unless you are an ISP. Steve, Thank you for the valuable advice, I'll do exactly what you are suggesting, No DHCP Regards. Samy __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Box as a Router, Firewall and DHCP Server
Go for it! I will Rod, wish me luck. Thanks __ Discover Yahoo! Get on-the-go sports scores, stock quotes, news and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/mobile.html ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Box as a Router, Firewall and DHCP Server
Samy Antoun wrote: Go for it! I will Rod, wish me luck. Thanks Samy, Sorry I'm late. How about a shameless plug for my distro - AstLinux. It sounds like it may work well for your needs: http://www.kriscompanies.com/modules.php?name=Contentpa=showpagepid=3 -- Kristian Kielhofner ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Box as a Router, Firewall and DHCP Server
Sorry I'm late. How about a shameless plug for my distro - AstLinux. Kris, I was taking a look at your site yesterday, great work. One day I'll get a Soekris and try it out. I'm downloading the PC distro now to give it a try. Appreciate your work Samy ps. Why you are not listed in distrowatch.com __ Discover Yahoo! Get on-the-go sports scores, stock quotes, news and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/mobile.html ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
