Comments on: pfSense + Freeswitch http://www.mgraves.org/2008/12/pfsense-freeswitch/ End User Perspective On SOHO Technology Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:04:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mark J Crane http://www.mgraves.org/2008/12/pfsense-freeswitch/#comment-663 Mark J Crane Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:31:02 +0000 http://www.mgraves.org/?p=2719#comment-663 pfSense FreeSWITCH package has become multi-platform it still works on pfSense but now it works on FreeBSD, Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, Open Solaris and others. I've named the project FusionPBX and doubled its features. New features. Interactive conference which allows you to record conferences, kick, lock, control the volume, mute, deaf and more. Active channels and Active Extensions these are tools for operators or a dashboard display and allows you to interact with calls transfer, park, and hangup calls from a web page. pfSense FreeSWITCH package has become multi-platform it still works on pfSense but now it works on FreeBSD, Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, Open Solaris and others. I’ve named the project FusionPBX and doubled its features.

New features.
Interactive conference which allows you to record conferences, kick, lock, control the volume, mute, deaf and more.

Active channels and Active Extensions these are tools for operators or a dashboard display and allows you to interact with calls transfer, park, and hangup calls from a web page.

]]> By: mcrane http://www.mgraves.org/2008/12/pfsense-freeswitch/#comment-662 mcrane Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:44:04 +0000 http://www.mgraves.org/?p=2719#comment-662 A few things to keep in mind about pfSense + FreeSWITCH One admin reported he has run two pfSense firewalls with fail over on two Dell 2950s. and a sustained traffic of over 800mb a second for a major website. FreeSWITCH is multi-threaded and can completely take advantage of mult-core multi-processor systems. Firewall with Phone System or Phone System with a Firewall? Many VOIP phone system run outside of NAT perhaps in a DMZ, other phone systems run in a large network and need to be firewalled from neighboring devices on the network. To put it more bluntly security has become more and more necessary even down to the device level. For these reasons a firewall that protects the phone system is absolutely ideal. pfSense can be setup to run as dedicated appliance for the task of your choice. FreeSWITCH and pfSense together equal a very powerful and secure phone system. A few things to keep in mind about pfSense + FreeSWITCH

One admin reported he has run two pfSense firewalls with fail over on two Dell 2950s. and a sustained traffic of over 800mb a second for a major website.

FreeSWITCH is multi-threaded and can completely take advantage of mult-core multi-processor systems.

Firewall with Phone System or Phone System with a Firewall?
Many VOIP phone system run outside of NAT perhaps in a DMZ, other phone systems run in a large network and need to be firewalled from neighboring devices on the network. To put it more bluntly security has become more and more necessary even down to the device level. For these reasons a firewall that protects the phone system is absolutely ideal.

pfSense can be setup to run as dedicated appliance for the task of your choice.

FreeSWITCH and pfSense together equal a very powerful and secure phone system.

]]> By: Sloan http://www.mgraves.org/2008/12/pfsense-freeswitch/#comment-661 Sloan Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:48:36 +0000 http://www.mgraves.org/?p=2719#comment-661 pfsense can be run as an appliance. There are an increasing number of packages on pfSense that you may want to run in appliance mode. http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=71&Itemid=81 pfsense can be run as an appliance. There are an increasing number of packages on pfSense that you may want to run in appliance mode.

http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=71&Itemid=81

]]> By: Michael S Collins http://www.mgraves.org/2008/12/pfsense-freeswitch/#comment-660 Michael S Collins Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:17:58 +0000 http://www.mgraves.org/?p=2719#comment-660 It should be noted that FreeSWITCH can scale up or down, but it isn't actually designed to be a proxy but rather a switch, hence the name. It works very well as B2BUA and this is where it would shine in performance compared to say Asterisk. I don't know that I would want a full-featured PBX running on my pfSense box, but that's an individual decision. In any case, FS plays well with other programs. In fact, FreeSWITCH is really a library, libfreeswitch, that can easily be embedded into other programs. IMHO, Mark Crane made a good choice by utilizing FreeSWITCH. -MC It should be noted that FreeSWITCH can scale up or down, but it isn’t actually designed to be a proxy but rather a switch, hence the name. It works very well as B2BUA and this is where it would shine in performance compared to say Asterisk. I don’t know that I would want a full-featured PBX running on my pfSense box, but that’s an individual decision. In any case, FS plays well with other programs. In fact, FreeSWITCH is really a library, libfreeswitch, that can easily be embedded into other programs. IMHO, Mark Crane made a good choice by utilizing FreeSWITCH.

-MC

]]> By: John Balogh http://www.mgraves.org/2008/12/pfsense-freeswitch/#comment-659 John Balogh Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:55:53 +0000 http://www.mgraves.org/?p=2719#comment-659 I have been using pfSense for two commercial sites and my home with good control on VoIP quality. Would be nice to have SBC functions in pfSense (beyond just IP filters). I have been using pfSense for two commercial sites and my home with good control on VoIP quality. Would be nice to have SBC functions in pfSense (beyond just IP filters).

]]> By: Sean Harlow http://www.mgraves.org/2008/12/pfsense-freeswitch/#comment-658 Sean Harlow Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:35:37 +0000 http://www.mgraves.org/?p=2719#comment-658 As I tweeted the other day I love pfSense. It's heavier than m0n0wall for sure, but the featureset and rate of development make it worth it for me. An old Pentium 3 with 256MB RAM served as my router in an environment with 8 WAN links and bandwidth utilization sometimes breaking 75mbit/sec while supporting QoS and running siproxd so the two SIP hardphones I had were able to work without NAT traversal issues or quality problems. It'll be very interesting to see what this Freeswitch integration gets us. Personally I'd love to have a pfSense-based appliance that I can feed some SIP trunks and throw phones behind with some very basic call flow. As I tweeted the other day I love pfSense. It’s heavier than m0n0wall for sure, but the featureset and rate of development make it worth it for me. An old Pentium 3 with 256MB RAM served as my router in an environment with 8 WAN links and bandwidth utilization sometimes breaking 75mbit/sec while supporting QoS and running siproxd so the two SIP hardphones I had were able to work without NAT traversal issues or quality problems.

It’ll be very interesting to see what this Freeswitch integration gets us. Personally I’d love to have a pfSense-based appliance that I can feed some SIP trunks and throw phones behind with some very basic call flow.

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