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Re: Network Upgrade

treichhart,

Yes I have looked in to freeswitch and as a matter of fact pfsense has a freeswitch module. For now Ill stick to asterisk
Thanks for the info on fusionpbx.
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I kind of have to agree with Cyberprog... Some people are almost full blown paranoid about security.

Think about it for a second ... its a home network with a bunch of random files with no real value to anyone - Im looking at this as an outsider. What hacker is possibly going to be interested in breaking into *your* network, should they even happen to know it even *exists*, when they could go after a bank or corporation and potentially cash out, or create some headlines? Something much more satisfying than "oooo I stole 3000 MP3's from some random d00d!"

Why people get so uppity about maintaining massive air gaps between their WAN and LAN at home I'll never know. I had a friend when I was in high school who was like this, never did understand it.

Hypervisors are used in all sorts of environments, from telecomms, to governments, to finance, to healthcare, and everything in between. But its not secure enough for your network because "something might happen"? C'mon... :P

If someone was to somehow break your hypervisor through an external vulnerability, I would think you have bigger things to worry about than the fact that your firewall OS is all but useless...

But having said that, we were all young (or young at heart) at one stage and wanted to play with and build lots of big complex things. After a while it wears off when youre working a full time job and have little time for anything and you just want to scale down, and then youre the one poking holes in the logic of people younger than you, like me right now. Translation: each to their own

FWIW at home I have a Dell PE830 running ESXi with usually 2 VMs running (plus a couple of others when Im buggerising around with things), a Cisco 1242AG wireless AP, and a Juniper SRX100 for my router/firewall/switch device. Im quite content with my setup, though if I were more interested in running pfsense or one of those similar firewall OS's, I'd probably run it as a VM for the very reasons I bleated about above (namely from a space/noise point of view - my PE830 is the only thing that makes noise, and Im seriously considering ditching it for a box in colo somewhere - and the primary reason I run a Juniper router/firewall is because I work with Juniper during my day job), but also for the fact I wouldnt be worried about someone wanting to break into some random Internet Joe's network.

Ive never really had a massive network setup at home. At most Ive had a quite sizeable lab (6 routers and 3 switches), but when working for a service provider things like that actually have some value in terms of the space and power they consume. Eventually though, I sold all of my lab gear because we had a much better lab at work, and being the only network guy it was pretty much all for my personal use.

Nice clean setup

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Oh and with VMwares, if the box goes down, EVERYTHING goes down. Thats why I dont like having 1 point of failure.
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Hating ignorance since 1984.

Perfect point. Also, many of us are network professionals and while we don't NEED a lot of what we setup at home, we configure environments and exercise best practices often as continued training for our professional IT jobs.

I don't *need* AD or vmware at home, but they aid in self training and cut down on clutter - one server uses less space and power than half a dozen various desktop boxes.

The OP has his environment under good control. No need to negatively criticize.