Category: Server
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Quagga for BGP Testing
So as all of you Cisco heads know, you can only generate 200 routes via network statements on a router. In addition to that, the routes have to exist in the route table, or at least the supernet must exist. If you want to generate a TON of routes for testing, these Cisco limitations will…
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Mikrotik Email Backup Setup
A buddy of mine, Rob, was kind enough to put up his backup system in the Mikrotik Wiki. This requires that you run your own email system, and have privileges to install a few packages. The setup emails your backups to a specific account. Scripts on your server then grab those emails and dump them…
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Adding Ringtones to CallManger 4.X
Occasionally, you just have to make an interesting ring tone. My favorite is to take the popular Youtube video and pull out excerpts, make a ring tone, then sneak it on someone’s phone…:) I’m a classy guy, what can I say? So, I use Audacity Portable to chop up my file. Once I have it…
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Add Secondary IP Address to Centos Interface
This is super simple, just create a new interface file with a colon and a number. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:1 DEVICE=eth0:1 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.0.5 ONBOOT=yes
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Zimbra View LDAP
I use LDAPAdmin whenever I’m going to be doing some backend work. I wanted to get the structure of the user accounts on a Zimbra server, so I did the following: First, allow connections to TCP 389 to your Zimbra box from your PC or admin subnet. Connection setup, replace zimbratest with your domain: Next,…
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What is Zimbra
Zimbra is a cool closed and opensource email system. I’ve only used the opensource version, but I assume the closed version is twice as nice, but I refuse to pay the price. Bad rhyming aside, the closed version offers you an outlook syncing plugin and live backup options. The opensource version runs postfix/spamassasin/clam, right out…
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Use Asterisk as an SRST (Survivable Remote Site Telephony) Gateway with Cisco CallManager
What is this and why do I need it? Here’s the scenario. You have a central office with five remote offices. You run Cisco CallManager at the central office and you simply deploy phones out at the remotes to use the central Callmanager. This saves you money by using a single call server. Now imagine…