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Author Archives: Adam
Google Voice at Home without Asterisk
Looking to use Google voice at home as your traditional home phone service without using some crazy Asterisk hack? You may even be fed up with the complexity of Asterisk anyhow, particularly if a simple voice gateway is all you have been using it for. There is an answer to this and it comes in the form of an inexpensive device called the Obi. Continue reading
Traffic Rate Limiting with Monowall
Recently I was called to implement a system to limit the bandwidth used by our guest network. There was no firewall in place for this network aside from the device provided by the ISP. Needless to say, it was junk and supported none of the more advanced features we needed. I implemented a Monowall with a fairly typical setup and jumped into configuring the traffic shaper. In this article I will only be limiting traffic Continue reading
Backup Cisco Configurations with SSH on Windows
I have done a brief write-up about backing up Cisco IOS configurations over an SSH connections in the past. Unfortunately, this article was based on expect, a Linux utility. There is, however, a similar but simpler way to accomplish the same thing on windows. Continue reading
Mitel Phone DHCP Configuration with Multiple VLANs
Typically it is always recommended to segregate VoIP traffic from your typical data traffic. Recently, however, I was part of a Mitel 3300 phone system installation that was taking a different course. The techs with the local phone company doing the installation were not familiar with this concept and wanted to actually statically address the phones as well. Not cool, scalable or best practice particularly as the network grows and changes. Continue reading