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spiff said:
got some electronic stuff to get rid of.
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I wouldn't know how to use it but looks good. I will also get rid of my stuff soon.

I can only afford Big Jims as well. :)

I just had to mention that at Game you can get the 32cm box (without compartments) for R20 until Sunday! I emptied my local branch but I might go back for more.
 
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ghostim said:
My zeroshell firewall on a pi3 b+ with loadbalacing and failover between RAIN and TelkomLTE
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This is perhaps a silly question, but how do you put this in?
Does it just join the network and become the gateway? or does it need multiple ethernet ports?
 
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Düber said:
This is perhaps a silly question, but how do you put this in?
Does it just join the network and become the gateway? or does it need multiple ethernet ports?
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I have 2 usb ethernet ports on it connected to the RAIN and Telkom routers. The LAN is connected to the Pi ethernet port. And yes it becomes the gateway/dhcp server/dns server on the lan.
 
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ghostim said:
I'm waiting for the Pi4 to upgrade my mediaserver/download manager
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The Pi4 will be way better, I'm just wondering if I have a use for a Pi4. I guess I could use it as a DNS server, but that is overkill, my normal Pi B will work fine. My Pi3 runs Unifi already. I wonder if the Pi4 has enough grunt to run a network monitoring tool.
 
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Has anyone tried installing freePBX on their Pi? Its for a small home setup with 2 phones and a cellphone using Zoiper

I've got an issue where after a week or two the installation corrupts itself... Super annoying as I need to rewrite the image file to the SD card, never mind the phones stop working

Obviously compared to a dedicated installation on a PC the Pi version is VERY slow when using the UI, but considering the power saving, and the fact I hardly need to use the UI this isn't really an issue for me

Any ideas?
 
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Segg said:
Has anyone tried installing freePBX on their Pi? Its for a small home setup with 2 phones and a cellphone using Zoiper

I've got an issue where after a week or two the installation corrupts itself... Super annoying as I need to rewrite the image file to the SD card, never mind the phones stop working

Obviously compared to a dedicated installation on a PC the Pi version is VERY slow when using the UI, but considering the power saving, and the fact I hardly need to use the UI this isn't really an issue for me

Any ideas?
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Better quality SD card?
 
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Segg said:
Genuinely thinking of this... But wondering why the current installation is giving issues, surely it can't purely be the SD card? :unsure:
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When there are lots of writes to a SD card, it can corrupt. Usually the better quality cards this is less of an issue. You can minimize the chances of this happening by reducing the amount of writes to the SD card. Mostly this would be to try and disable all logging, any temporary files ect. You literally want to end up where the only writes, would be to a database and config files.
 
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Segg said:
Any ideas?
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What I have had, although on Armbian on my orange pi's, was that the partition created for logging (/var/log ) is too small and a simple or very repetitive error clogs it up making it hang.
Easy to fix if you know about it, but not so easy to figure out if you don't, as it could be an obscure log file.
Rasbian might do the same, I'm not sure though.

Flashing your backup image does not have all the junk there and therefore works fine until it fills up again.

What also helps me sometimes is to make an image of the "broken" card and then compare it to the working image, diff works well for that as it filters out the clutter.

But as @Tinuva pointed out, a bad SD card does funny things as does a bad power supply.
 
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I don't use sd cards anymore. Since starting to boot and run from usb sticks I have not had one corruption.
 
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ghostim said:
I'm waiting for the Pi4 to upgrade my mediaserver/download manager
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How is Ethernet speed over USB? I can't imagine it's ideal on the Pi 3b... Pi 4 on the other hand...
That said, I guess for LTE in SA it only need max out at 100Mbps.
 
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Daruk said:
How is Ethernet speed over USB? I can't imagine it's ideal on the Pi 3b... Pi 4 on the other hand...
That said, I guess for LTE in SA it only need max out at 100Mbps.
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For me it is not an issue, still get +-5MB/s download speeds which is the same as connecting a laptop directly to the LTE router with a lan cable
 
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