Hi all
Im looking to push my Astlinux business this year and this will rely heavily on
partners. These partners will usually be IT Service providers that have a
number of small business customers and that they want to add voice as a value
add product.
Now here is where the problem lies. Most of these providers would currently be
maintaining the site firewall but as Astlinux is designed to be on the edge,
its an issue. So what do you do?
1) Put Astlinux in front of their firewall and open up the necessary
ports and protocols. The problem here is that they lose flexibility in what
they can do and there is another provider in the mix. Its also a problem if
they are retailing the broadband connection for the site with too many
dependencies.
2) Put their firewall on an Astlinux DMZ with a public IP Address. They
now have more flexibility and I can control Qos. Still issues with being
reliant on another provider and additional IP Addresses can be expensive or
unobtainable. I assume I can actually do this with Astlinux!
3) Put Astlinux as a DMZ in their firewall with a public IP Address. They
now have complete control however QoS would need to be configured on the
firewall and additional IP Addresses can be expensive or unobtainable. PS this
is the model I have with one of my partners
4) Sit behind the firewall and rely on port forwarding and/or ALG’s.
Inviting trouble but possible if you have a known working configuration
Im interested to know what others are doing in this space.
Regards
Michael Knill
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