 And I am live awesome Hopefully this is working Vlog Thursday episode 90 playing with Wi-Fi is what I'm doing at the moment. So I figured I'd throw that in there actually Wi-Fi and Bloomberg I Think I can change this after I start Let's see. Whoo. It works All right. This is not gonna be a super long one. I have been Busy or than usual. So which is good. It's a good busy and Been playing with some Wi-Fi and because of the popularity of my Wi-Fi video. I Let me turn my phone off. I didn't do that. I Didn't do enough testing I realized because a lot of people had questions. So I Now have one of these alpha networks that allows me to connect even faster to there So this is a USB 3 alpha networks card that allows me to connect up to AC 1300 So it's pretty slick ticketing system news is coming on my ticketing system because we're Working with the folks at invoice ninja on their ticketing system and how they're integrating it You can find it. There's information on it. You can find I don't have any information on it But that's this is not to get too far off here. But yeah, that's the ticketing system. So For now, we're actually just using invoice engine mostly creating quotes and invoices as tickets. So anyways back to the Wi-Fi So right now it's connected. I got the driver compiled and it's connected at 1.3 gigabits But I'm having some weird issues And I'm sure it's me So I'm not blaming any equipment because I'm not getting as fast a connection as I was on my laptop now It claims to be faster, but the thorough put I think I said that word, right? I think the thorough put is not the same. So that's actually what's up on the screen here is I just rebooted what the server that was running I perf so I can do some testing with this. So let's see I think there we go I Perf 3 to this IP address Oh, yeah, now it's working. So it was definitely a server problem Or not. So that actually looks like it worked. Let's go ahead and Do that. So that's impressive if I did this correctly and so you guys can get a better idea what's going on here Go down to the bottom window Although it's connecting at 1.3. I wasn't getting 1.3 out of it. So You know what? Let me make this bigger. Let's make this easier for people to see view Bigger there we go All right So let's break down what's going on here and you guys maybe of course I could simulate anything. I'm sure but I want you to trust that I'm doing this, right? So we're gonna go IP address and what we're gonna show here is WLX OCC that are that is my Wireless device right here in my hand and the IP address is 192 1683 dot 224 So that's The Wi-Fi device here is and this looks kind of messed up now, but this is the I config for this and I will show you the commands. Why not? Let's just let's break this down I'm gonna I had way too many windows open anyways You know, I have the weirdest hard time typing when I'm like on live stream my typing gets way much way worse So what this at the top window you're seeing here is Just doing a watch IW config and then the name of my adapter. So Watch Wi-Fi is telling us and it's updating every one second. Here's a bit rate of 1.3 gigs threshold 100% signal What Wi-Fi we're connected to it's a unified device And we're gonna go over here and then we're gonna go I perf and we're binding I perf dash S for server dash B for bind and we're giving it an IP address to bind to so we're gonna bind it to this IP address here All right, and now we're gonna go here. We're gonna split this and SSH we're gonna jump over to another server now This is 3.224 and this is 3.110 so flat networking as in same land This is a virtual server. So there's that and now We're gonna run I perf dash C so we're gonna connect back to my computer here that has 3.224 So I perf see 3.224 client connect and let's see what kind of speed we get Gigabit speed. I think the limitation is the fact that I only have gigabit On my computer and gigabit on the other end of this So the Wi-Fi device has the potential to kect it higher the gigabit, but I'm only connected a gigabit So that's how that's working, but yeah, it's kind of interesting The one thing that's annoying right now, you know, let me close this down So yeah, we're getting gigabit speed out of it. So now I can do further testing with this and there's gonna be a separate video Whoops Actually, let's just split this split this My one of my annoyances I've run into though is Waveman Waveman I use for Wi-Fi testing and it doesn't like this device I don't know why I don't it understands the device it sees it, but it won't give me signal information on it I don't know. I don't know why so it does sometimes like it's gonna pop up and give me it and then it'll go away again But it's not giving me all the other details. I don't know why I don't know if it's I had to compile a driver for this So I don't know if that has any effect on that at all But in case it does that's an issue, but nonetheless This is USB 3 it means that it can go Faster than gigabit networking. So at least I've eliminated that bottleneck and now I can do some more subjective testing And at the same time give you all the details because I want to do some speed tests because Some people really care about the speed of their Wi-Fi devices I guess as they should and I have a unified device that I'm going to connect to Another one. We have a few of them. We got a lot of things here And I hope this doesn't affect the live stream in any way negatively Let's find out we're going to switch my networking To my unified comparison network. All right, just see if that works It's Unassociated and now it is 1.3 gig unified comparison network. Cool. So now we're on this one. Let's go back and Split the screen here. We're gonna run the eye perf again bind it to that. All right Now that this is where I run a problem that I don't know what caused this see how it only is doing a hundred ninety-two, but I'm gonna reboot that server And then it starts working again. Let's watch the server reboot. It is this server here So there it is rebooting It's a virtual server. So I know there's some bug that's causing this and I haven't It's only doing it with the Wi-Fi. It's not. I don't know. This is a puzzle. So servers rebooted Log back into it and run the test again. And now I have more speed So by the way, this right here is now connected to a Unify APC HD. So let me pull that up for you and drag it over here. So here's that Unify we've nicknamed big brother. It's an APC HD and I'm the one client connected to it And you can see the IP address right here It's probably small on the screen, but it's one nine two one six eight three dot twenty four so Can you show me how to build a unified controller again, especially when the updates because mine never seen it work Yeah, you know because there's a new version of it out I'm gonna do it another walk-through Because last week we built a new VM in during the live stream for my Unify That runs both my Unify controller and runs my Unify Video I run that on the same virtual server I built it during the live stream goofing off and kind of talking my way through it. It's not too hard So I've done enough times. I think I can do a pretty concise video on it so I can get people kind of up to date on the Easiest best ways to do it and how it works. It's it's really nice I see people arguing with me. I have one person says they didn't like Linux They want to only run it in Windows. I I don't know I haven't seen that many problems on the Unify software for Windows, but it works great in Linux Like it is been the most headache-free. We've got a lot of clients in here. We have a ton of APs in here and It's been really smooth. So I'm real happy with it overall Running it in a Linux server matter of fact when you get like the cloud key it's running Linux Which is also kind of my if they if anify does it I should probably do it too so It has no problem though achieving the speed. So here like I said here we are and This is over the HD one and we're getting pretty much gigabit speed, which is I'm impressed Now for comparison here My other IP address is dot nine. So we'll go ahead and break this down We're gonna run IPerf and we're gonna bind it to the dot nine address now And this is the wired network, which again, we're getting the same speed I Actually should stop that because it may screw up the stream because I'm saturating my Saturating I have all my the Unify not a new five YouTube live is routed over the dot nine address I probably shouldn't over saturate that particular network That that seems like a horrible idea But it works. You can see I'm getting gigabit speed over that I've got other things running on my computer So there's other factors that may slow it down and I don't use this computer as a test environment I'm gonna have a couple physical machines on a physical network when I do my testing. So See Where someone says works great on Windows I haven't run in we have a couple clients that for themselves are running their system on Windows Because they have servers. They have a what they have used, you know, Windows servers and their Environment so we just loaded on there. We didn't need to spin up a special Linux server just for them So no big deal. I Did seems to work perfectly fine the controller software. So not really been an issue Works great until Windows update to leach your files. Yes. Yes, that is the that is the fun of of The latest update that shreds your files for you. That's certainly a thing So, yeah, that that happened good news. This didn't have any of our clients Microsoft actually estimates it's a really really low percentage that it happened to but Any percentage that it happens to is bad bad bad horrible like this is not something that should happen so, yeah In early unified didn't run a service. So I had to start up and haven't had a change thing Yeah, if it's always running as a service, not a big deal I mean it's been a long time since I've had a load of new version on Windows and nice not that we don't update our clients I don't do it. I have Steve is usually the one in charge of that and Eric It does it and Kyle does it and I don't do it. So Yeah, so that I know it right I think it has a more service options now I know they've enhanced a lot and done some updates with the Windows installer for it, which is wonderful They they are maintaining it, which is great. So definitely pretty cool there I like said very happy with the overall with them I was showing on forcing of updates Oh Who forces updates Microsoft? Oh when when 10 updates? It is what it is You're insecure if you don't your files are shredded if you do that's the current version of damned if you do damned if you don't It's pretty ridiculous Loving the Facebook discussion on SolarWinds. Yeah, people are arguing about that. So I I don't know. I'm happy with SolarWinds. I any time someone goes on a rant about SolarWinds. I often I look at their other posts and I go. Yeah, you seem to rant about everything like I don't know what low I mean, hey, nothing's perfect and I'm I'm always reevaluating should we stay with SolarWinds But if you look at a couple of people and then people talking about the forums and this is specifically in one of the IT business owner Facebook forums if you look at the people who are Saying cool about SolarWinds. You got me and you got a couple other really Companies that are substantially bigger than me going. Yeah, we use them and they work great The people that are really complaining are the people who are a one-man show small offices, you know Maybe they have two employees. It's a smaller companies that seem to complain the most about all the stuff And I'm like, what are you guys doing that you're having someone's like, oh my bill goes up and down I can't figure it out. I'm like their price breakdown couldn't be more clear And I don't know I'm not gonna show you my invoices, but I will tell you they're really easy to read There's there's nothing complicated if my bill went up or down I would know and it it goes up as we onboard clients it It's concise matter of fact. It does price breakdowns per client site Which makes it easy because you can do the math you can go wow I charge a client X dollars and I pay this dollars to SolarWinds to the client and honestly SolarWinds is not my base expense by far Have you worked with Starwind vSan? I have not worked with Starwind vSan No experience with it I am a subscriber to the SolarWinds newsletter and I happen to know a few people at SolarWinds They recognize me when I was at an event. I've been in their video I've been featured on their site because I'm one of few people who've independently not sponsored has done reviews of their products So I'm pretty overall. I like their stuff. I nothing's perfect. I mean, it's not like everything about it It's just amazing, but I yeah easy and easy to understand And they hand all the licenses for me. So that's one of the reasons I've talked about it in the past like I like SolarWinds because They roll in all the license costs. They roll in all the feature costs as checkboxes. So when I deploy it to a client I have my costing for MSP and It's I'm not chasing licenses. I have a lot of things to do matter of fact that's actually what the last week has been is a headache of things to do and This and if you didn't see it, let's go ahead and drag it over here. I Tweeted this the other day These are the things sometimes that Tom gets called out to because it was supposed to do this and another Vendor comes out there and they break our wire and they break the stupid Pull string and then this little twisty thing they were trying to shove in a hole and pull it out It's just it like things turn into kind of a mess and then if you're wondering why I didn't do any videos This is why I've been in meetings I've been doing just one thing after another that has kept me from doing any videos lately and then I sent out Over the last few days probably 11 proposals and a few of them got approved like as soon as I sent them So that turned into a another they wanted me to meet with them because these are all local stuff Not as much the YouTube stuff proposals that we do so you know and just before I plan to start at three and Out of the blue randomly phone call comes in And it was another proposal that is getting approved Well, they want to know if I was on for Monday and I just thought I told them I was like hey We still on for Monday. I'm like remember when you missed the phone call last week You're like, yeah, I said I also didn't see the deposit check You're like, oh, I said I don't order parts. I'll get my deposit check It's a lot of hardware. We got to get for this. So it's just to do to do to do to do Yeah, so they've kind of kept me from making videos and everything else. Good news is we got business coming in So these are good busy things Windows 10 gets candy crushed a few other games and every major update you're removing is back on the next update Yeah, that's true. I Am lost in windows a little bit because I don't really use windows anymore I Been running Linux full-time for years is my desktop. So and we use Linux on the desktops here at our office Papa West is what we're going on right now and it's it's been happy times, man real Linux is great. It's it's not the year of the Linux desktop as everyone may say But no one's writing software and I've said this before and I probably I don't know if I've done one or I can't remember or I would definitely do when no one Wants to use windows your applications are chose Choose your operating system. A lot of people realize this applications choose your OS. It's not like One of the clients we were just working on and finishing some problem problems and troubleshooting force I they want to use windows. They actually are completely platform agnostic. They don't care. They have no loyalty to Microsoft They're a carpet company that wants to sell carpet whatever tool sells their carpet. They will use so It's the applications that really drive people to use windows because it's the long tail of legacy they've had the same application platform for 17 years and The company doesn't intend to write a Linux based version. It runs on Microsoft servers It uses Microsoft's active directory integration for user validation authentication It's woven into the fabric. So they're going to continue to have windows desktops and whatever the cost may be Whatever the inconvenience may be for them That's how it is But if you really look from a software development standpoint, no one is writing anything for windows anymore. No one There's only support. So no new coders are going to school and you know, hey, man I'm gonna go build the next windows application and things like that because Let's look at the example in front of my face right now. Here is this really slick awesome interface that allows me to Show all kinds of cool stuff show clients be interactive and let me switch over to another site There we go Here's my office Here's a dynamic map and I can see all the devices connected. I can see all the wiring and how things are plugged in and I'm doing all this in a web browser So exactly why do I need an application loaded on my desktop? This is why no one's developing desktop applications It's just not necessary anymore. This is That's the old school of all this right now. It's like look we can just go through here and You do all the different stuff all with a fancy web interfaces that are really slick Here's another one here. Look at how extensive this is. I'm controlling orchestrating virtual machines and moving things around completely doing it with just a series of Clicks through a web browser including an interactive terminal and I What do why would I want to load an application to do that? So this is why no one's doing it? So They people won't people will move away from Windows and Harpy. They just needed me to look the same Is my company seasonal not really Only outdoor Wi-Fi projects are seasonal. So that's the only seasonal part of it because we don't really want to do a whole lot Let's see trends go up and down right now the economy is good here. So people are spending money Pro and version to do Send a user video on what's that demonstrating how to put paper into a printer. Yeah Yeah What is Bloomberg? Bloomberg is stupid We're gonna talk about this real quick Bloomberg China so This story keeps getting worse Full coverage of the market sell-off. Yeah Yeah, yeah, so Bloomberg is not a Unrepeatable company when it comes to the reporting and journalism they do so they're not someone who's just kind of willy-nilly on this they're Respected large number of journalists and very interesting, but they made the claim claim That in 2015 Amazon Inc. became quietly available being startup called Elm Elm technologies and it reads on from here The short of this is it's referred to as a supply chain attack and it's the concept that someone put Chips on super micro Well, it looks like play it based on illustrations, which I don't know how accurate that is Modified chips that were able to hack servers Now there's some plausibility to this concept and supply chain of checks aren't new matter of fact. Let's look up Krebs on security Printer China so Krebs and security wonderful reading And There's all kind that he covered it's been a while so he's covered this one, but he's covered some other attacks as well and It's really interesting because yes Someone could do a lot of these things, but would they did they there's no evidence in this There's all this talk and one of the only have one named source and the one named source They have even thinks his his quotes are all out of context and doesn't feel good about the story either So this whole China hack with Bloomberg thing. I did a couple videos on it. I'm waiting to see if there's any new information after this I'm gonna have to call it bunk because Bloomberg has to basically put up or shut up. You have to give us some proof Now that granted there's gonna be NDAs. So you can't say companies. You can't say people's names in this In all that fun stuff and I get that that's perfectly fine when you're dealing with it potentially state-led malware, but You have to show us it just tells what chip to look for don't worry There's an army of us out here who are willing to start disassembling these you just got to point us in the right direction And that's what they're not doing. So I'm yeah It's it's interesting Uh You switch over to free PBX to dedicated hardware yet are still running a VM so running a VM I just haven't gotten around to moving it there. So Yeah, I don't know if I'll move to hardware one of those ain't broke don't fix it so my free PBX is right here and It's just sitting on a virtual machine. I did a demo video to of moving free PBX Over to another machine like live zen motion and moving it from machine to machine while calls were going It's actually really slick and works really well. So I don't know if I will or won't switch it over one of those Like I said ain't broke. Don't fix it I've looked at 3cx. I'm probably gonna be a reseller for 3cx. I've just been busy and haven't had time to finalize things I set up an account and played with it. It's pretty slick. I like it I like some of the integrated features it has so it's pretty cool. I Think 3cx makes a pretty nice phone system They have a I wouldn't think I'll say about the 3cx system is It's nice Like it's very slick looking All right, so I just got distracted by all the messages And I need to open this messaging thing. So I still You know, I'm doing it early. I'm waiting to see. All right, cool. I'm just checking my slack messages. Sorry for my distraction All right Oh, this is this is good story. I'm excited about this. This is something I want to share with all of you So This is really cool. And I was confused earlier and upset. Um, hey, can't know. Hi. Oh, that's not very far cool Uh I keep seeing ads on facebook 3cx is that the one you host an ad. Yeah, you can host 3cx and whatever cloud you want Uh, 3cx is not based on hysterics though 3cx is a different system all together So it is not like a forker version. It's a very customized system So it's not like free pbx where it's got this hysterics based on there. So Um This is something I think it's really cool because the feature that I like the most Of all of them was the call screening feature if you'd seen the pixel 3 came out And I'm a pixel 2 owner. I gotta admit My nexus 6p was one of the nicest smartphones I have owned my next Best one at high of owned is now the pixel 2. I absolutely love the pixel 2xl Super happy with it. It's great. And then The google assistant stuff is pretty cool too. So that's something I really like I know i'm an open source guy and I like privacy, but there are other things that Um matter to me sometimes like getting work done So there's parts of my life that I surrender and say, hey, uh, yes, I I'm willing to Use your service and your ai system to answer spam callers That's exciting. That's fun because now we're going to have automated bots calling an automated Google ai system and i'm suddenly out of the mix This is so happy to me that I don't have to get any more spam calls Matter of fact, I think the only calls I get on myself phone or spam calls probably 90% or more of them are spam calls. So no one calls me everyone messages me Um and everyone who do anytime I'm on the phone. It's with our business phone system So I don't have a direct line in here. You have to call and get my extension dial my extension to get my phone to ring So yeah, that's exciting to me though that they're that google's doing this that's like, oh, yes It's just going to be bot wars There's going to be like wars of bots spamming each other, but that's okay as long as you're not bothering the humans. I'm good I'm good Unify protect. Oh, this is a hot button topic. I am going to do a video on it I've been wanting to uh, because I've talked to a few of my unify friends on I know willy covered it. I think it is Um live stream saturday So I don't know a lot about it as far as testing with it. So I haven't done anything, but I will say this Unify it was interesting to me that unify the video software the nvr software that they'll let you run it on any commodity hardware but through people we have helped through troubleshooting and Through troubleshooting. We've done our own the time when we've had the most problems with unify wasn't with unify people blame Unify, but it wasn't their problem It was people Not configuring it because they underbuilt the server didn't build it properly So now unify has a problem with that and I could see a problem with that I don't know anything internally about it, but this is definitely going to be a brand issue for them. So Unify wants their product to work and everyone to celebrate how happy it is and on properly built servers We have no problems at all with the unify system But on improperly built servers There's a big problem with it. It has all kinds of hang ups and pauses and slowdowns and everything else So I have a feeling this comes down to people Custom building them causes kind of a branding issue with them like hey people are complaining about it, but nvr servers are Are both dedicated and They really need to They need to be well put together So I think when they start controlling the hardware is probably why they're going to do it now I hope they do release it to the public But I I don't know if they will and I think I know why it's a difficult thing to support that in the market I really wish there was and people asked me all the time. Hey tom. What is the What is the best open source video controller program out there and I'm like I I haven't really played a ton of them But all the ones I've seen they're very in the early stages of their products They have a long way to go before they've really reached where I would even ever consider installing them with a client And there's not a big push in the market to build a big open source nvr Um, so there's a lot of proprietary systems out there We've put in a lot of unified systems when we properly build the server. We're really happy. They work well Because the server can keep up with the demands of having that many cameras right to it But we also use uh exact vision systems and that's another popular one now exact vision is interesting because They will let you build on commodity hardware, but it's not cheap. So it's an expensive system It's but it works. So yeah It's an interesting discussion I'll see how it pans out Certainly to the man because of the way the unified products are And the fact that there's a lot of love in the I'm almost going to call it the tinkering home lab community and the enterprise community as well Don't get me wrong But there's there's a certain crossover because people who work in the enterprise markets often Tinker with this at home as well and people who start tinkering at home often have the goal of working in the enterprise market And you bring forward with you whatever products you're using. That's how the ecosystem of it works So it's going to be interesting um definitely something Something to think about something to look at. I'll follow it I don't know if I have anything more to add to it that other people probably didn't say already Um Yeah, I have not played with it the new nvr software at all. So just Haven't I haven't done anything with it But uh, yeah three cx is pretty cool. What are some other questions people have throw them out there for me so I'm still I still got the wi-fi testing. So do we have any changes here? Whoops. Nope. That's not the right one Turn my wi-fi back on Does it still have speed? It sure does cool That that's fast. This is this is impressive. I I like this thing That's definitely pretty cool Uh open source and linux. Yeah, yeah, yeah I love everything to be open source, but some things can't be well, I said and I can't be just aren't We're seeing more and more stuff become that way I've tested next cloud. I don't have a use case for next cloud. It's not that I don't like next cloud It's my lack of a use case for next cloud that makes it Uh more of a problem for me if I had a use case for it I'd be like, oh, yeah, let me do it. I just we use um Uh sink thing I actually realized I just rebooted my computer before I started this and so things sink thing wasn't running Uh make sure there's no ip address is shown. All right, it's not But uh sink thing is how I keep everything in sync. So as I edit any files Or anything it just constantly updates And it sinks to my free nas and then my free nas sinks. I've done a couple videos on this My computer is constantly synced to free nas. So It's pretty cool. It works well. Um, what do I think of gray log gray log is pretty neat Uh, but it's complicated. So I have not done a whole lot On there. So yeah Consent server to cluster without licensing sure can Um, you can set up as long as using xcp ngs and server the open source one Uh three cx versus free pbx. I don't have I think three cx is going to be easier for me to resell That's what we're looking at probably as a product platform to resell. Uh, but free pbx. We love it That's what we're using here. We really like it. But I think three cx has a easier Path for reselling it when as a cloud hosted application Because we have so many of these small offices. They don't always want on-prem equipment So three cx might be a better fit for them Uh looking at qnap technology or free nas mini could you recommend one or the other free nas all the way big open source guy And I love zfs. So zfs is just hands down the way to go And makes your life better Um, that's why I'm so bullish on there. I'm uh, sonology reached out to me recently um And it they want to send me a demo unit for stuff at all my testing I don't think they make a bad product at all. I'm just my favorite free nas. That's my preferred brand We've used them. It works really well Zimber office is pretty cool. Uh vios. Yeah vios is neat um But boy this If you are you ready to just run your firewall from the command line Sure. I mean if you don't mind writing all the protocol stuff from the command line, absolutely Yes, I did see that uh microsoft is uh sharing patents for the um In the linux community, which is pretty cool uh Yeah, if you want something more power, I mean just go build one as the free nas mini underpowered That's a matter of opinion. I've seen people complain that oh, I can go buy this commodity hardware and it's faster and I'm like Free nas minis have ipmi offline Bios management like they're a serious piece of equipment And yeah, I'm They're they're nice I'm not a big Mikrotik fan. So as I understood it said mikrotik when I uh, when I've looked it up So we'll look it up again. Make sure to see it right pro Whoops, uh, they have it Mikrotik pronunciation someone has in here Yeah, mikrotik That's according to the mikrotik people Uh, how it said anyways, I'm not the biggest fan of the mikrotik Uh, the they seem to have a good value Versus feature set like they're not very expensive had a lot of features. Um But the other side of it is they are um A little bit more difficult to configure I don't think they make a bad product But if it's difficult to configure and I am the fact that a company would make a product that's Not secure by its default configuration is what has led to the disaster of Uh, compromise mikrotik routers all over the place. So uh, micro uh, derp Mikrotik hacked So we have lots and lots of uh, no, don't translate what Oh, let's see I think the edge router was base or is based somewhat on bios. So I'm pretty sure that's true Oh, I have a del r210 thinking uses a pf sensing suggestions does the r210 to do you does it have an um Does it do aes and I I don't know that's the that's an important feature Here we go Thousands of micro diggers hacked to e-drop on network traffic. They have created a mess In the network right now and uh, yeah 200,000 Routers now it's not exactly their fault, but it is their fault and there's a reason I'm saying this They did make a mistake. They did patch mistake. I understand security mistakes are made What I don't understand is Why a service that had a vulnerability in it. They may not know about any patched it But why was that exposed by a default configuration? So, uh, yeah, I don't get it. So Not completely understanding it is definitely confusing to me. I don't get it at all Uh, if you're gonna build something build the damn thing secure. Uh, dreitech, you know, I've never really dug into them someone said dreitech are kind of popular because of uh Um, they boot really fast or something like that But there's nothing about them that was compelling to me that made me think I wanted to have one I've seen them What here and there they seem fine, but Yeah, I there's nothing about them that made me the you gotta have a couple things going for you got to have An amazing track rest track record of security That's the first and foremost my product choice has to do with security Then after security, then I'm going to look at features and functionality Is this thing stupid difficult and going to be a pain in my butt? How do the updates handled and support and then we're going to move on to Other features they add on there and longevity of the company. So The whole series of things so I'm using a pf sense apu t24 we can't route over 700, but linux can Do one committee. That's why I asked about vios because it's backed on debian I can tell you that I have Shown even the basic the small neck gate sg 3100 can route at gigabit So it's not a pf sense has no problem routing at gigabit pf sense can route at 10 gigabit The bsd pfw firewall system. I was just had a presentation on this the other day A local bsd group given by he's been on our channel before michael lucas and we went in depth on it There's a reason that he said right now. We're at 25 percent of the internet is routed through bsd So I wonder I don't I forgot to ask him where you got the statistic But trust me michael lucas is not a guy to just make claims and say things so the internet Whoop no not rule 25 25 percent we'll do this in real time. We'll try to find a fact dyke and type Runs on bsd Somewhere it's for the routing I don't know. I'll find the statistic and maybe share it again sometime in the video, but anyways My point is bsd is super solid. There's a reason companies build networking camping on When Networking is frequently built on bsd because it has extensible routing and things like that now when you look at something vials They customized The kernel to be able to support in the kernels gotten better over time To catch up with the ability that you had in bsd bsd's ability has been amazing for a long time at doing Uh high speed routing and switching so male scanner having used it Uh suggestion on what for making backups of unrayed vm's without shutdown pause Never used unrayed. I don't know In zen orchestra You click on the magical backup button and it will take a uh properly Q sliced Snapshot and then you can restore it at your leisure the backup and restore that you can do in zen both from the command line Which I've done a video on and through zen orchestra is beautiful and simple and easy to move around So I but I'm not used on raids so I can't answer the questions Yeah, amazon's talking about getting into the own white label stuff Um, that's going to be very interesting if they do if amazon if amazon produces white label networking gear watch out label network gear EAR for those that can spell Uh, where's the article? I read it a while ago. It's been a few weeks since they announced it. It's been really interesting Yeah, I don't see it in here yet. Uh, they have private label brands, but I don't know what they're gonna do It's gonna it's gonna be really interesting Yeah space invader one, um, I will actually can probably pull that guy up if you look for uh This guy on youtube just google space invader one. He has a lot of videos on Uh unraid He's actually done some pf sense videos too I never watched him. I don't know. I don't want I'm gonna pause. I don't get in trouble for his name He's got a weird choice of graphics also confusion Joel This is done in july of 2018 He's using their their logo from a few years ago Oh, well, I mean his choice But he does a lot of unraided videos so Uh So vm running pf sense as a vm is kind of a headache It can be um The problem you run into in a I sense someone a link recently about this I might I I don't know so Please note see how this one's got the little bsd logo guy, which is kind of cool This does have the zen tools loaded so I do have zen tools loaded inside of my lab one for when I do testing But let me log into my lab and show you one of the problems that you're going to run into. Hey, here's one of them right here um There are performance issues that I keep running into when I run it in the vm I don't know if this is These problems persist inside of vmware, whoops But if we go here firewall traffic shaper Aw, I can't create rules for the traffic because a firewall interface assigned is not capable of alt-q traffic shaping So there's certain hardware interactions that bsd has With the network interface You lose those interactions now. There's a workaround again You can go through and hardware pass through the network interface. So you could put a Network card and then map the network card interfaces through through into this The reality is um Yeah, I think they have built-in support because if i'm not mistaken for vmware if you go to the package manager Actually, I don't think it's a package anymore now I'm not mistaken. Let me see if it's even listed in here. I think it's just installed automatically Yeah, the vmware tools that are built in because the vmware being a big popular they built in all of the Uh features in there. So there's some things that don't maybe work as well. I don't know I don't run it virtually other than for testing. Uh, I pretty much Um run it all the time on hardware because it runs directly on a hardware I know there's no issues if I have to reboot my zen servers for some reason Or there's any issue with them. I still have internet access which I care about because usually if something doesn't work You can just google it. So yeah I don't know I don't usually I even tried running it in virtual box in a while. So I don't run it a whole lot Like I said, it's just for testing I ever made a switch and now what created vlan for google home homecast apple tv Where do you draw the line which devices and connect to what? um It's not hard to get the vlan's running. Uh, that's actually pretty pretty simple. Um Where are they I'll actually show you this is I I don't feel like opening up windows right now, but if you go to uh host Network You just put the vlan tag in that's it nothing else. There's the vlan vlan 10 vlan 69 vlan 50 So when you're building the net um adding a network you just fill in the vlan and it works. There's no No secret to it. I've got a video I did on this and Yeah, you just put them in so Um, I'm doing a network segmentation traffic video that is on my list I'm probably not going to get it done till monday, but I'm going to break down It's not I'm going to probably use pf sense as a demo But I'm also probably going to at the same time demo it with unify and maybe some other devices But it's going to be a concise just what what you should or shouldn't it's kind of a talking through networking and setting up that I'm going to use pf sense. Like I said, because I'm used to it as an example But it's not the end all solution to all this. So I know there's other people and they're using other devices So we'll cover it like that Yeah, the hardware pf sense that just in generally speaking It doesn't take much the only thing that takes a lot when you're running pf sense Is if you try to run things like end top png If you want to dig deep into your network and you want that tool like end top to run Inside of pf sense. Well now that's going to really use up some processor power Um, once you're doing things like that, that's when you want to consider it and go. Hey, okay I need a faster one if you're just Playing around or you just want it for routing and firewall rules and traffic shaping That's like no processor power at all. That doesn't hardly take anything in to run And anyways, if you do I've done video on end top and end tops a really great tool But the version that comes with the package maintainer inside of pf sense is always a little bit behind So ideally you want that data sent to something else and someone mentioned like gray log There's other tools that you basically go into pf sense and you say offload the data that way So it can do the more in-depth analysis for it Monitoring learning we're starting on and if anyone's looking at my screen here And we're testing out moving to Xabix for things. So The Xabix is pretty slick if you haven't heard of it. It's a very big open source monitoring system So they make a really cool dashboard everything. This is free by the way. Yeah, Xabix is great. So we've been looking at it um I maintain stuff right now in osaq and osaq is Good and we're probably going to continue with it because osaq I have some active security setup in it But I We're probably going to look at a Xabix solution for some bigger stuff. Everything else for using solar winds Grafana is pretty cool. Xabix actually has um dashboards metric collection. Let me see they got some screenshots here And we'll do the risky search Here we go Here's some screenshots. Xabix has menus and graphing and statistics in there for here we go So yeah, Xabix is pretty full featured for network monitoring server monitoring setting up triggers and alerts so Yeah, and You know, I went in myself and said maybe someone's got a good Xabix video No, so it's going to be something I do is make some Xabix videos when we're done I'll make some videos about the whole setup. I've got friends using it So I've been I played around with it. It's pretty slick Nagios is another one if you haven't played with Nagios is really nice So I'm going to be doing some playing around I'm doing some comparison because once I go all in I'm one of these But I'm really leaning towards Xabix because I just like the integration with it The thing with Nagios is let me show you guys here Nagios is popular and there's actually a few there's some good YouTube videos on Nagios. So Nagios.org I can get the source code from Nagios.com I get the commercial version now They're very similar, but you have to do a lot more compiling and manual When you're using Nagios open source And that's what you get when you buy their licensed version is all their updates and everything else But Nagios is a really nice system as well Yeah, your font is just a pain to set up and everything else And there's other companies out there that just do alerts like pager duty But Xabix is a whole lot more than that and both Nagios and Zagos And Xabix are both integrated into tons of different things Plus if they're not integrated They support SNMP monitoring so you can do SNMP monitoring of just general devices even older firewalls or a piece of equipment don't have direct integration I have pieces of the new C300 platform. I get the does not have yeah Yeah, there's some of them that just it may not support it so Yeah, Xabix is pretty cool because something kind of neat here and I'll show you in my pfcense lab Xabix Can proxy things through that into the dashboard. So like this person had mentioned here if you go to your Package manager available packages and go Xabix So Xabix has the proxy option in here And it's what it does is let's say I have a bunch of computers at a remote site you can Proxy them to the pfcense and then the pfcense can relay that information back in So Xabix has the ability to have like essentially like concentrators That relay the data back to you and it's all open source Very slick and the cool thing about Xabix is there's not a there's commercial service offerings with them But you get the full version compiled and updates with it without paying license fees Which is kind of cool and I don't mind paying license fees. I pay for solar winds I pay for products we pay for screen connect. We don't mind that but There are some issues with that some oh horrible contrast on this. Yeah, I don't know. I was playing with that I'm not probably not my favorite one. I was just goofing around with this But Anyways, I unfortunately have to wind this down. I hear my ride He has arrived because I am going to a podcasting meetup So a couple other things that I do when I'm not doing this and doing videos Outside of tech but kind of inside of tech is Podcasting as you know for those of you that listen to me on sunday morning links review But I also created some content for some new media companies that are starting up and I'm meeting with some more of them Talking about it. I do public speaking. I'm actually been I'm on the board meeting I'm on the board of the chamber of commerce. I'm also going to be speaking at the medc Which is the mishkin economic develop council. So there's a few other things I do in case you're wondering that keeps me away from doing videos And it's one of those things I have to leave in a few minutes to go do I got to drive to detroit and The good news is there's usually beer at these events So, you know that that makes the event I I got to talk to people about podcasting and content creation while drinking beer It's not bad. It's it's not a bad thing at all So definitely going to have fun doing that. Um, what else was I going to mention? Oh Um What else No, I can't think it was something I always go to my photos to take pictures or anything No, you can't think of anything else, but videos are coming for um The couple devices I have the wi-fi testing That's why I got the stuff on there. So definitely going to do all that. So Uh Would running plex on a machine separate machine kill my network? No Plex should run on a free NAS mini Based on the processor in it. I don't know. I'm not a plex expert. I don't watch a lot on plex I'm going to do some stuff on it though soon, but um Anyway, I'm going to hop off here and but I do have those tests coming. I got the fancy wi-fi device I'm going to review this specific device as well this alpha networks, uh, because it's definitely really cool Libre nms is a neat product too. I played with livery ns. It's it's uh, like a shadow to xabx though. So xabx is Is really good. So all right look for videos and all that fun stuff I'll be rocking them out. Uh send questions comments go to our website. Thank you all of you. There's now about Um 30 there's like 37 000 people on there now So thank you for all the subscribers and all that stuff. So awesome. You guys have a great day Look for me on the twitter. You can find links below Um And all that fun stuff. So all right take care