Little Box of Tricks

[VMTN_Admin]

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/170

LBOT Internet Integration Appliance

[bperry3]

wow, gotta try this one, looks really cool!

[jobson]

Excellent system. Have been running one for a client for over 330 days uptime without any problems. Using proxy, dhcp, ntp, firewall and Qos. Planning on using LBOT across a distributed clients network using just about all the features. Look no further, beat the rush and download today.

[Ramon]

I love an early adopter. Make sure you check the updates - a lot of new features have been added.

\- cheers, ramon

[Mick3029]

Great tool. Have been running for a while now and has assisted greatly to solve all sorts of challenges for the mobile consultant.

[DirkMey]

my company had been using LBOT now for 6 months and found it a very important part of our network set up and the support from nsi have been very good. the device and support services make it unique for its cost and functionality.

[kenh]

I have just been using the LBOT as an Asterisk server for a small business .. works great!

[crispi]

Thanks to LBOT, I replaced my old Linux internet firewall (which was a Pentium 100MHz) with something not much larger than a paperback novel, I'd have to say I'm pretty happy.

What I like about it is:

\- It's fanless

\- It's diskless (It has a solid state disk which has an IDE interface)

\- So it's incredibly quiet

\- It's based around mostly RedHat, but with a lot of binaries replaced with busybox versions (for compactness)

\- It has 3 fast ethernet ports, so makes an ideal 3-legged firewall/router

\- It has low power consumption (works off of a 12V DC power supply)

I mainly use it for:

\- Iptables

\- OpenVPN

\- Squid

\- DHCPD

\- BIND

\- Asterisk

\- Syslog

\- NTPD

\- DDNS

What it's missing is mail (store & forward), mainly because of lack of disk space. LBOT is designed to run mostly out of ram disk, to avoid repeated writes to the flash memory.

Overall, I'm very happy with it. It just sits in the computer cupboard filtering packets.

[doug]

crispi....just for the record LBOT isn't really based on redhat. It has been built almost entirely from source (99.95% binary free)....however we chose to make it redhat-like to make things easier (for those familiar with redhat anyway)

[andy_mac]

If you want mail facilities, check out ESVA

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/173

v1.1 will be out soon - it's on pilot at the moment, so just ironing out some last kinks, but 1.0 is still a good base to start (you will be able to import your configs from 1.0 into 1.1)

-Andrew

http://www.global/domination.org/

[rcruikshank]

Just ordered my second LBOT. Very stable device with everything you need (and if there's something missing its not difficult to add with NSI's help). With a little more work in the Asterisk interface this could start to challenge other small business voice solutions. Keep your eye on it.

[Ramon]

'cmon rc, i've seen some of your asterisk configs - no gui is going to satisfy that!

\- cheers, ramon

[Ramon]

... LBOT users also note -

\* if you're not using C-Bus, then you can delete the /java directory and reduce VM size by 62MB

\* ram setting of 256Meg is if you enable all services - can run in 32Meg with basic services

\- ramon

[rcruikshank]

>cmon rc, i've seen some of your asterisk configs - no gui is going to satisfy that!

Ya but could be an interesting challenge for somebody. There are some fancy commercial Asterisk management tools out there but I recon the open source community should be able to outdo that.

[Ramon]

... you offering rc? i thought your day was still only 24 hours :smileywink:

[rbcastle]

Ok, I've downloaded the LBOT and have it running but I can't connect to it via http. Is there some trick I'm missing. I have 192.168.0.37 as my IP address and I'm trying to connect to 192.168.0.200 which is supposed to be the default address of LBOT but I get no response. I also can't ping it.

Firewall???? Mine is down. I can connect to other virtual machines on my computer via http.

Any thoughts?

[Ramon]

rob, start the webmin service i.e.

service webmin start

[rbcastle]

Ok, I tried service webmin start. It didn't throw any error messages but I still can't connect to the box. Any thoughts?

Thanks for the quick reply though.

[Ramon]

... try starting squid also i.e.

service squid start

... the default set of iptables rules may require squid to be started in order to access any web services.

[albertob67]

I'm also not able to get a ping from the VM, my address is 192.168.100.117 and cannot ping 192.168.0.200; tried starting webmin and squid as suggested but no luck.

Suggestions are welcome...

[Ramon]

... shouldn't you be on the same subnet for a start? 192.168.100.0/24 is a different subnet to the LBOT default of 192.168.0.0/24 ... alternatively change the LBOT IP address and associated iptable firewall rule base.

[David_E]

Hi

Same problem:

The VM shows eth1 on 192.168.200

I can't ping 192.168.02 the machine on which the VM is running.

Any thoughts gratefully received.

David

[Ramon]

... sorry dave, ifconfig eth1 should show 192.168.0.200 correct? You've shown 3 octet IP addresses hence i'm not sure what you're trying.

... make sure that your VMware Ethernet setup is correctly bridged to your LAN adapter also. It's a pretty basic setup hence eth1 comes up by default as 192.168.0.200, hence anything on the same LAN should be able to see it.

[David_E]

Ramon

sorry : typo: I was trying 192.168.0.2

hmm:

"at your VMware Ethernet setup is correctly bridged to your LAN adapter also" - there were 3 ethernet connections showing at the top of the VM screen only one of which was connected - so I rebooted and all is okay.

Many thanks for your quick response.

David

[holycow]

is this torrent still available for download?

i'm simply not getting any dl rates at all!

anyone have any copies of the image available maybe?

[Ramon]

... you can just d/l from the vmware virtual appliances section.

\-- ramon

[holycow]

yeah, the torrent doesn't seem to be able to download anything. the download rates are at 0.

i wonder if there is the possibility of accessing the hosted zip file directly ..

[holycow]

okay i finally managed to download this thing.

if anyone has problems with the torrent do let me know, i can make it available if necessary.

[Ramon]

Well done! A few others have been trying hence i might send them your way. We've recently completed a new version so i'll up that soon; just need to finish off the setup wizard.

\-- ramon

[cancee]

Dear Sir,

Your Post is very nice and i am trying to some changes according to my system like i need to run this on my physical hard disk on 250 gb and i need to make this a real high performance server but to do this i am facing so many problems is it possible that you submit a complete post that how you will install this and configure it in VM and how to we install in physical disk while we use VM ?

To Do this you can use Camtasia Studio is a number 1 you will make your complete movie file and save in his own extension so it will be easy for all .

waiting for your early reply,

Sincere Regards,

Rockey

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[Deactivated User]

The link is broken ... where can I download this appliance ? thanks !

[RandomNerd]

I have loaded this appliance to my VmWare ESX 3.5 box, right clicked on the .vmx file and chose import, when i look at the resulting virtual machine i get error messages

when i try to create a new virtual machine with the hard disk i cannot even see the .vmdk file to choose it

does vmware check the .vmdk to see what version of vmware it is compatible with?

suggestions? convertion?

[carpenike]

RandomNerd -

Did you try using VMWare Converter?