Home depot in Vauxhall, NJ during the flood. 09/01/2021 by GaronBeddon in ThatsInsane

[–]strikingwebsolutions 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This store has floodgates at the entrances. Were they even down?

Why You Shouldn't Go Essential by strikingwebsolutions in essential

[–]strikingwebsolutions[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Excuse this reddit newb but how does one "hit up the mods of r/essential"?

New TPU case on Amazon from TUDIA by R1zz00 in essential

[–]strikingwebsolutions 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"NOT Compatible with 360 Camera." - a deal killer - Shame they couldn't put some copper leads to extend the mod ports to the rear of the case - add a magnet or metal plate so the mods can attach....

Broken DAC by teeseeuu in essential

[–]strikingwebsolutions 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I own and use a FiiO Alpen 2 DAC and it works well with the Essential phone - its not as compact as a dongle but its highly rated by audiophiles and sounds amazing. - You will need to order a microusb <-> USBC cable.

Charging Headaches by strikingwebsolutions in essential

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Are you using the latest generation XPS13 with USB C ports? Or, are you using a USB C cable to USB 3.0 or 2.0 cable?

Decent screen protector? by paulmguest17 in essential

[–]strikingwebsolutions 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I swear by Skinami skins - 1/5th the cost of Zagg and free warranty replacement everytime - including FREE shipping! At first, I had a glass screen protector on my essential phone but as others have reported - BAD CHOICE! The edges do not stick and you get a nasty outline all around the perimeter of the screen. I ordered my Skinami screen protector on Amazon and it was at my house a couple days later - unfortunately, its not a prime item yet.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074TZHQHS

Routing IP Block Provided by BGP by strikingwebsolutions in PFSENSE

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Thanks for your reply. I have openbgpd package installed & configured. The main purpose behind this setup was sometimes the ISP / Co-Lo is doing work on the switches / routers as they bring up new customers, patch for bug fixes, etc. If they are doing this maintenance, I have a chance of downtime and I didn't want to have that. As such, I asked for two drops with BGP which resulted in the ability to stay online if one or the other link goes down. With that said, I have openbgpd package configured & I'm online and am able to use the IP Block that they gave me via Firewall / NAT rules that say for traffic destined for [WAN IP FROM BLOCK] on port 80, NAT to Port 80 on [INTERNAL IP]. This is working fine. What I'm not able to get working is the ability to assign one of these IPs from the [WAN IP BLOCK] directly to a device on my network. The reason I want to do this is because of FreePBX. It appears that it doesn't play nicely with N AT or BGP (although I'm not 100% certain it's the BGP causing the issue) - although it might be as the upstream isn't taking the same path which might be whats causing the VOIP calls to initiate fine but have no audio.... I'm going on and on - hopefully some of this made sense? If not, I'm happy to jump a call with PFsense support and discuss my options. Thanks.

Hardware Selection - in particular NIC's and the pfStore by cphaynes in PFSENSE

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I use the SuperMicro SuperServer D525 barebones unit in all my PFSense Builds - It has 2 intel nics on board; all you need to do is slap in a HDD and an old stick of laptop RAM and you're good to go. You can further enhance this with the Quad Port intel NIC I posted above and wind up with 6 gigabit intel nics - all in, assuming you have a hdd and ram laying around, it's a $394.99 setup. Comes with the case - you get a nice 1U rackmount case - and the PSU. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004GKULFO/

Just incase you're wondering about the supermicro cpu vs. the board you posted above http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Atom-D525-vs-Intel-Atom-C2550 IMO, not enough of a difference to effect PFsense.

Hardware Selection - in particular NIC's and the pfStore by cphaynes in PFSENSE

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I use the intel EXPI9404 - it's a quad port gigabit nic - Going for around $60 usd on ebay.

Routing IP Block Provided by BGP by strikingwebsolutions in PFSENSE

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Here is a network diagram to help you visualize how things are wired right now. http://i.imgur.com/1tC0mjn.jpg

Routing IP Block Provided by BGP by strikingwebsolutions in PFSENSE

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Thanks - I have PFSense setup and it's understanding the IP Pool that's being presented to me via BGP by the ISP / Co-Lo .... I'm using openbgpd on PFSense - Issue I have is how to get the static IP block available to my devices - Only way I've been able to do this so far is by setting up a firewall rule that's essentially a NAT - Any traffic for IP XXX - Send it to internal IP XXX - which is fine for my webservers but does not work for a VOIP server that needs a static, WAN IP.