[asterisk-users] How do you harden an Asterisk install?

[Tom Vile]

For the NIC setup you can bond 2 cards together for redundency.  Take
a look here for some more info on bonding.

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/ref-guide/s1-networkscripts-interfaces.html#S2-NETWORKSCRIPTS-INTERFACES-CHAN

On 7/13/06, shadowym <shadowym at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I remember reading a small write up somewhere.  I think it was on the
> Asterisk Wiki.  I can't find it anymore.  It's probably a bit dated by now
> but some of it would still be relevant.
>
> Can anyone recommend a good guide or even some of their own suggestions.
>
> For clarity, what I mean by hardening is to make an Asterisk Server or
> network appliance or embedded server or whatever you want to call it, as
> fail safe, stable, and reliable as possible.  Just like an expensive
> traditional PBX.  This is for a small business application of 50 extensions
> or less.  It can't be too crazy like redundant servers or anything like
> that.  I am looking for ideas like RAID 1, redundant power supply, cron job
> to reboot every night (yuck!), disable caching(?), Astlinux on embedded with
> CF, yada yada!
>
> Anyway to set up automatic failover to a second Network Card with same IP if
> primary network card fails?  That is one point of failure I haven't found a
> way around yet.  Failure of the managed switch is another one I get a bit
> paranoid about.  Switches generally don't fail but I'd like to have some
> sort of fail safe plan.
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