New Update to the 3CX SBC Boosts Performance

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The 3CX SBC is very popular and used by many of our users to either ensure quality of service, increase security or for connectivity reasons. With this latest update the performance of the 3CX Session Border Controller (SBC) has been beefed up so regardless of why you choose to use the 3CX SBC this update is for you. To start off we\'ve increased t...

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[iron]

Nicky the debian download link in this article downloads a blank zip file for me (tried twice). Can you check it?

 

[sip.bg]

Me too. ZIP file is damaged.

 

[Agathocles Prodromou]

Follow the instructions and you will be good to go:

1. wget http://downloads.3cx.com/downloads/sbc/3cxsbc.zip
2. sudo bash 3cxsbc.zip

Don't try to download and open the file manually.

 

[OCWI]

Absolutely awesome to see 3cx putting resources into the border controller, its a key link to a working system.

With that said, do you guys expect this to eliminate more of the needs to restart pi's in the morning when people get into work and find their phones saying "no service" because they lost internet over night?

 

[RafaelD]

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Hello Nicky,

Does debian R9 SBC, support more than 50 ip Phones on a customer side? We use a cloud model of the 3CX PBX and we only can make a Connection to the server with an SBC.

 

[benitok]

@agp we are using a Raspberry Pi running Debian 8. What is the upgrade process, do I first upgrade to Debian 9 and then update the 3cx app?

Or would it be better to do a clean install?

Does anyone maybe have step-by-step instructions on how to do this properly?

 

[andreaschr]

Absolutely awesome to see 3cx putting resources into the border controller, its a key link to a working system.

With that said, do you guys expect this to eliminate more of the needs to restart pi's in the morning when people get into work and find their phones saying "no service" because they lost internet over night?

Those issues are fixed now.
Let us know if you have any comments. Thank you!

 

[DrewHammond]

Follow the instructions and you will be good to go:

1. wget http://downloads.3cx.com/downloads/sbc/3cxsbc.zip
2. sudo bash 3cxsbc.zip

Don't try to download and open the file manually.

Why even give a shell script a .zip extension in the first place? Kind of odd...

Also you could turn that into a one-liner with less confusion:

wget http://downloads.3cx.com/downloads/sbc/3cxsbc.zip -O - | sudo bash

 

[andreaschr]

@agp we are using a Raspberry Pi running Debian 8. What is the upgrade process, do I first upgrade to Debian 9 and then update the 3cx app?

Or would it be better to do a clean install?

Does anyone maybe have step-by-step instructions on how to do this properly?

Hi benitok,

I suggest to do a clean install, it will take less time.
From this link https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/
download "RASPBIAN STRETCH LITE" and then follow this guide
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/

 

[andreaschr]

Hello Nicky,

Does debian R9 SBC, support more than 50 ip Phones on a customer side? We use a cloud model of the 3CX PBX and we only can make a Connection to the server with an SBC.

if you are referring to the SBC on the Raspberry PI, then the supported is 20 ip Phones.
Also, note that on standard Debian stretch , depending on your hardware setup, the number of IP phones supported is higher.

 

[benitok]

Hi benitok,

I suggest to do a clean install, it will take less time.
From this link https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/
download "RASPBIAN STRETCH LITE" and then follow this guide
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/

Thanks for the reply. I will do that, thank you. This will work for our office, but I've got a client with offices in 2 different countries, so a clean install will be difficult. I was hoping to do this remotely with just an upgrade.

 

[ConnectworksNL]

Thanks for the reply. I will do that, thank you. This will work for our office, but I've got a client with offices in 2 different countries, so a clean install will be difficult. I was hoping to do this remotely with just an upgrade.

Same here, we have about 20/30 SBC's on different location's it would be more time consuming to do reinstalls and lots of company's already closed for the holiday's but we can still manage the SBC's remotely.

So please also provide a Upgrade manual.

 

[Rob24h]

Do I understand correctly that when my PBX is on Debian 8 (3cx v15.5) we must NOT use this new SBC version as it is on Debian 9?

 

[andreaschr]

Do I understand correctly that when my PBX is on Debian 8 (3cx v15.5) we must NOT use this new SBC version as it is on Debian 9?

This has nothing to do with PBX.
The SBC can be installed only on debian 9 (strech) and you can use it to connect to any 3CX PBX v15, which runs on any of the suported Linux(debian 8/9) or Windows platforms.

 

[andreaschr]

Why even give a shell script a .zip extension in the first place? Kind of odd...

Certain MIME types such as .sh have been known to cause problems with proxy and firewalls hence why we use the .zip extension.

Also you could turn that into a one-liner with less confusion:

wget http://downloads.3cx.com/downloads/sbc/3cxsbc.zip -O - | sudo bash

Your one-liner is a great suggestion but on some systems that do not have sudo, you would need to run the command as root without the sudo, like this:

su root
wget http://downloads.3cx.com/downloads/sbc/3cxsbc.zip -O - | bash

 

[ConnectworksNL]

Hello Andreaschr,

Could we use this link to update Debian 8 Jessie to Debian 9 Stretch or is it different for Raspberry Pi's

We hope to hear from you.

 

[andreaschr]

Hello Andreaschr,

Could we use this link to update Debian 8 Jessie to Debian 9 Stretch or is it different for Raspberry Pi's

We hope to hear from you.

Hi

I suggest to do a clean install and not an update, it will take less time for raspberry.
From this link https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/
download "RASPBIAN STRETCH LITE" and then follow this guide
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/

 

[OCWI]

Those issues are fixed now.
Let us know if you have any comments. Thank you!

We would be very very very grateful if that is the case. I'm confident that i am speaking for many of your re sellers here!

 

[OCWI]

same with us, any directions/options for doing it remotely?