[Spce-user] routers Vs SBC

[sipwise at ics-il.net]

I have dozens of Mikrotik routers running. I love them. I know people with hundreds of them and I know people running several gigabit/s through them. 

I never used anything but Asterisk before - no SBCs. Not sure what they cost, but the saying goes, "If you have to ask what it costs, you can't afford it." Actually, I just found some on VoIP Supply. Of course, they are priced awkwardly enough where if they are useful, then they're worth it, but if not, then I feel like a fool. It will be kinda interesting with my environment as everything I have is run in a VMWare cluster, so I'd have one plugged into each of my switches for both LAN and WAN. 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
http://www.ics-il.com 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Oren Yehezkely" <orenyny at gmail.com> 
To: sipwise at ics-il.net 
Cc: "spce-user" <spce-user at lists.sipwise.com> 
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 1:57:49 AM 
Subject: Re: routers Vs SBC 





Mike, 

Can i take the opportunity that you mentioned Microtik and ask you hoe do you like it? 
I got one to try but found it difficult to configure. 

Also, do you guys prefer a router or an SBC (something like Edgewater EdgeMarc). 
It seems that the EddgeMarc combines the MicroTic capabilities but adds more features for VoIP. 

What do you think? 

Thanks, 

Oren 








On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 7:44 AM, < sipwise at ics-il.net > wrote: 




Dang it, not used to how this list operates (replies go directly to the person, not the list). 

I've been thinking of coming up with a script for my Mikrotik routers that detect a given number of packets per second of a given type destined towards my servers, then firewall it off when it exceeds that. SIP isn't an overly chatty protocol, so a given IP shouldn't have say more than 100 packets per second from a valid client, but would from someone trying to break in. 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
http://www.ics-il.com 





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