From what I found online,

write memory

is the command to copy the running config to the startup config.

@jmoore said in USG Pro 4 and our Company Security:

@wrx7m $75 a month, just internet though, nothing else bundled

I pay about $50 for 100/100 from Frontier FiOS.

@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs Ocasionally I have time like that. When I do I read documentation over various things. I try to limit them to things that might help me someday. Use the time as learning experience. Learn scripting better through powershell or python. Read over git documentation to understand it better. I'm currently reading a book over KVM and doing the exercises in it. Read the chocolatey documentation and learn how to use it for windows environments. Read over the dnf and rpm commands to use them better. Learn docker. Know how rdp technology works in detail. Find some voip guides to see how things are done. learn a programming language real well. Theres a million things. I make a list of things I want to learn better. Ive used onenote, zoho notes and evernote for this in the past. These all go on your phone too. I rotate through them. smaller things I finish befire goign to another. Larger topics I'll go from one to another more often. Hope some of those ideas help.

Yeah. There are tons of things to learn; you shouldn't ever be bored. Most people pay to learn. I get paid to learn.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

On another MS Teams conference call. Man this stuff sucks. The links don't work, the sound quality is bad, and the announcement system doesn't work properly. This is really basic stuff that the free systems do no problem.

Looks like we will be moving from SFB/Teams to Slack (Plus version).

@Phil-CommQuotes said in Provide Foreign Toll-Free Number to US Call Center:

@JaredBusch @wrx7m Hope I responded right but yes we can get Toll Free numbers a la carte anywhere in the world (well almost anywhere!). Mexico yes! Hit me up

Message sent

@scottalanmiller said in Provide Foreign Toll-Free Number to US Call Center:

@wrx7m said in Provide Foreign Toll-Free Number to US Call Center:

Our PRI provider doesn't offer anything either. Guess that is the only choice.

That would be much harder for them than a voip provider.

Yeah. That was why it was my "last" ditch effort.

@jmoore said in Questions on UDP, Guest WiFi, LAN, and Unifi.:

@JasGot said in Questions on UDP, Guest WiFi, LAN, and Unifi.:

Guest Isolation

As recommended in their guide, I would try the guest network option first. No need to make things more complicated if you don't need to by using vlans.

If these policies are using isolation, they should be blocking access to everything but the DFG IP. I think this is an either or scenario.

Our PRI provider doesn't offer anything either. Guess that is the only choice.

@JaredBusch The green screen special effects are lacking. At least, they were in the first 2 seasons.

@jmoore said in USG Pro 4 and our Company Security:

@scottalanmiller I have 600 down at home so that is slow.

How much does that cost?

I thought SW was all but dead.

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/agentforwindows/userguide/backup_hiw.html?ver=30

Says it uses Microsoft's VSS

Should I check out twilio?

Edit-They have Mexico in the search but no results show for toll-free.

Damn. They don't have Mexico as an option under toll-free International DID numbers.

Confirmed with their chat support.

@JaredBusch Yeah, I need to see how much it would be for the base MRC and per-minutes, compared to the hosted call center. I would be bypassing my legacy service completely.

@JaredBusch Thanks!

@scottalanmiller said in Provide Foreign Toll-Free Number to US Call Center:

We use voip.ms specifically for toll calling in Mexico. Should work the same for Toll Free. Works great, super cheap. That you have a PRI for US calls shouldn't affect your decision for Mexico.

Thanks. I only mentioned the PRI because we don't currently have a SIP provider at our location; it was more of an aside. I will checkout voip.ms.

@WrCombs said in Database Server vs File Server: What's Different:

@scottalanmiller said in Database Server vs File Server: What's Different:

This question came up and it is definitely worth looking into. These are two common and standard types of servers, but if you've never worked with them before, they can be a little confusing.

First: What is a file server? A file server is a kind of network server that provides a network file system (SMB, AFP, NFS) that can be mounted as a file system by clients. This is the most common type of server and the one understood by non-technical users most of the time. We common refer to this as something that provides "mapped drives" and is how most people transfers files between machines on a LAN. In all but the rarest circumstances, file servers and their clients are just operating systems. This is generally considered an intrinsic component of an OS and all production OSes for decades provide this out of the box.

Second: What is a database server? A database server is software that provides access to a database. Databases present some sort of API and are not consumed by operating systems or end users, but by applications. Databases often have unique protocols including ODBC, but many use common standards like JSON over HTTPS as well. A database can, of course, be controlled directly by an end user, but it would be raw data being accessed (such as issuing raw SQL commands.)

Commonly database servers and application servers are confused. But database servers provide data to applications and sometimes file servers. Unlike application servers which are used by users, and file servers which are used by OSes to mount file systems, database servers provide a behind the scenes data services used by other services.

It should be noted that a file server could be used as an interface to a database server.

Is it possible for a File server to run a database server ? how would that be classified at that point ?

Sure. People do it all the time. Especially, in the SMB space.

We need to provide one of our customers a toll-free number in Mexico. This number will be routed to our US-based hosted call center with inContact. InContact says the MRC is about $250, plus usage. I am not sure what the per-minute rate is yet.

We haven't moved away from our PRI to SIP, yet (no active plan, just sometime in the future). Given that, I doubt that our legacy provider will be worth talking to, do you agree?

What do you guys suggest I should look at?

TIA

*Doctor Who not included