[wellylug] FWD: Install Linux OS - Asterisk

[Alick Wilson]

Hi All

I have been running Trixbox CE and its predecessor Asterisk at Home for some
years in my home office and found it very stable. I have colleagues with
similar positive experience. I can happily recommend it for SOHO use.

As for security, I run Trixbox behind my firewall router, a Linksys WRT150N
running DD-WRT open source firmware. The only ports on Trixbox available
through the firewall are the SIP ports.

As for a VoIP service to get started, I suggest 2talk
http://www.2talk.co.nz. I've been using 2talk for local PSTN number, tolls
and mobile calling for over a year and found the service highly reliable.

Alick

-----Original Message-----
From: Jethro Carr [mailto:jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com] 
Sent: Friday, 19 September 2008 11:43 a.m.
To: alick.wilson at xendra.co.nz; Wellington Linux Users Group
Cc: Francisco.DELROSARIO at team.telstraclear.co.nz
Subject: Re: [wellylug] FWD: Install Linux OS - Asterisk


On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 11:33 +1200, Alick Wilson wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I suggest one of the following Asterisk distros:
> - Trixbox CE, which is available either as a bootable install CD-ROM
> or VMWare image. I have been running Trixbox CE for several years on a 
> junk PC (currently Pentium 700 MHz with 256 MB memory and 8 GB hard 
> disk).

Trixbox is nice to play with to try out the technology, but I advise against
deploying it in production anywhere.

There have been a number of security problems with Trixbox and I've seen
times where they don't push out updates to fix known security flaws very
fast.

I'm also not pleased with their security design - In once case, a web
interface of trixbox could be exploited to give you a root shell, due to the
way they allow their PHP scripts to run as root!


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Jethro Carr
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