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We provide Small, Medium, and Large businesses with all different types of Solutions, Services, and even support!
We’ve had a few succesfull blog posts that have brought in quite a bit of traffic (an example being the tutorial on Trixbox/CUCM integration).
But what would you guys like to see?
-More VMware Stuff?
-Server stuff?
-SBC computing?
Let me know!
Well, it’s that time of the year again. The Calgary Stampede kicked off in 2010 on Friday starting with the parade.
I read somewhere online that over 350,000 people showed up to show their support during the parade!
This is just another great reason to call Calgary home. I wish everyone happy stampeding, and PLEASE remember, don’t drink and drive! Take public transportation or call a cab, or have that dedicated designated driver!
So, here’s a quick rant…
Last week my brother video calls me. My friend butts in to the conversation.
Friend: OMG dude do you have the new iPhone???
Me: No dude, this is an Xperia X1
Friend: Uhh dude, are you sure. Only the iPhone 4 has video calling, I saw it on a video from their public announcement thing.
Me: Uhh not true, I’m pretty sure what phone I have, haha. Video calling has been around for years and years.
Friend: No dude, it JUST came out.
Epic Fail!
The conversation went on and on. Why do people think video calling is a new thing? And why do people think only the iPhone 4 can do it? From what I heard the Video calling on the iPhone requires Wi-Fi and can’t do it over the cell network. All my phones I’ve had in the past 4 years supported video calling.
So recently the other day I came across this article that I was interviewed for. I’ve taken a clipping of the part that has to do with me:
The actual document is available Here. I’m on the top right of page 3.
WOW was I young. I was fresh out of high school and was 18 years old. Things have changed big time! (PS. I almost didn’t consider posting this since I had my haircut botched the day before. I was borderline bald!)
Those were the days back when I was JUST getting into business!
I’ve had my main web server directly on the net for some time now. The box runs CentOS and I always have it fully up to date, with a minimal install just to act as a web server.
It’s always concerned me a little bit, the fact is I keep the box up to date as much as possible, but it’s still always in the back of my mind.
This weekend I had some time to mess around with some stuff. I wanted to get it setup behind my Sophos UTM, however I did NOT want it to use the public IP address that it’s setup for as I have numerous static IPs all for different services.
I spent a good 3-4 hours doing lots of searching on Google, and Astaro.org. I saw a few people that wanted to do the same thing as me, but didn’t really find an explanation for anything.
Ultimately I wanted to setup another external IP address on the Sophos UTM software appliance box, and have that external IP dedicated to JUST the web server. Everything else would continue to run as configured before I started modifying anything.
I finally got it going, and I thought I would do a little write up on this since I saw a lot of people were curious, however no one was having luck with it. So far I’ve just done it for my main web server, however in the future I’ll be doing this with a few more external IPs and servers of mine. So let’s log into the Astaro web interface and get started!
PLEASE NOTE: I performed this configuration on Astaro Security Gateway Version 8, this will also work on a Sophos UTM
This should be it, it should be working now. If you don’t want to create the packet filter rules and want ALL traffic allowed, you can simply forget section c above, and when creating the DNAT and SNAT rules check the “Create automatic packet filter rules” box on both rules. Keep in mind this will be opening your box up to the internet!
If you find this useful, have any questions, or want to comment or tell me how to do it better, please leave me a comment!
Thanks!
Here’s a few oldies I found while going through the millions of pictures I’ve taken over the years…
So, ASG 8 was released to partners this morning on July 1st, 2010.
I was super stoked about this, especially with Astaro announcing that this version will take advantage of 64-bit support. Immediately I went to go download it.
Since I run a vSphere cluster, I went ahead and downloaded the Virtual Appliance. After installing, restoring the old v7 backup configuration file, I noticed that running “uname –a” didn’t report back that it was running a 64-bit kernel.
So after some time and a few e-mails to and from my partner rep, I went ahead and downloaded the software appliance .iso hoping that the installation would provide the option and I was correct.
So as of this article, if you want to get version 8 of ASG setup, do NOT download the virtual appliance. Create your own VM, and use the installation .iso available from Astaro.
One last note, if you are using a partner license, you may have to contact your partner rep since the partner licenses use the old licensing scheme. You MUST use a new license (that uses the new licensing scheme) to use your partner license on the Astaro Security Gateway Version 8.
I LOVE Astaro!