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Passive Sniffing on Windows

Posted on August 24, 2011 by

With Linux you can configure a sniffing only port relatively easy. Put it in promiscuous mode without an IP and sniff away passively. With windows, there is typically always an IP address assigned to an interface. If not statically assigned the interface will search for DHCP and will ultimately end up with an address in the 169 range if no address information is found. Either way there will be information from your machine showing up in a full, unfiltered packet capture. To get around this you will actually want to disable the TCP/IP stack for that interface. If this is … Continue reading →

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Personalized ringback on your FreePBX

Posted on August 14, 2011 by

Want to play music for your callers while they wait for you to answer? It’s easy and can all be done through the free PBX GUI. Go to the “Music on Hold” option in the admin menu on the left. Get the recordings setup how you would like them. I uploaded a few MP3s and enabled random play to spice things up a bit. These songs will now play for the caller on the other end if you put them on hold. Easy, right? Now, to play music over the trunk to a caller you will want to navigate to … Continue reading →

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Free Microsoft Software for Students!

Posted on August 10, 2011 by

Hey if you’re like me you have gone through high school or college hacking away with free, cheap, or otherwise obtained software. (We won’t go into that….) It works, typically, but now there is a better way. Students can actually obtain some of the finer Microsoft products free of charge. If you’re a student check out http://www.dreamspark.com. You will have to register and go through a verification process but once that’s completed it’s off to downloading! The site offers developments tools for games and general applications, the SQL Server platform, Virtual PC, and the Windows server operating systems themselves. This … Continue reading →

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Mitel 5000 PHP SMDR Script

Posted on July 15, 2011 by

You may have read my short writeup about reading SMDR from the Mitel 5000 with a simple PERL script. If not you can see it HERE. This script is basically the same thing but in PHP. You will have to setup PHP to run from the CLI for this to work… I also set the execution time really long and could run it from a web page as well. It was really ugly but this gets the idea out there…

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