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    Installing Rancid On Centos

    I actually installed Rancid on my newest CactiEZ install. Rancid is a device configuration backup service. To view the CVS files that are created I used CVSweb. I started with this tutorial to install Rancid on Centos…an extremely useful tutorial. Once this was working I pulled the newest files from the CVSweb site. I dropped…

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    Controlling Chromecast From Another Country

    Andrew (in Australia) connects to my chromecast in Memphis, TN, USA. We create a GRE tunnel, then route an EoIP tunnel across that, then we bridge the EoIP tunnels together and then…magic happens 😛

  • Cisco Call Manager Express/Communications Manager Express, Cheap FXS/FXO Ports, and Asterisk Voicemail
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    Cisco Call Manager Express/Communications Manager Express, Cheap FXS/FXO Ports, and Asterisk Voicemail

    Here’s the scenario. I’ve got a charter school that has an aaaaaaancient PBX kicking a PRI. Having the system updated is expensive and the PRI is even more expensive. We are going to roll a new PBX for them in about 8 months, and their PRI’s contract is coming up soon. This is a perfect…

  • TamoGraph Site Survey

    TamoGraph Site Survey

    As it just so happens I’ve been doing a LOT of Wifi work lately. I’m doing both high density(HD) and standard user access. I’ve found several tools and techniques lately that really help in design/testing/deployment. A tool that I’ve recently been using that I have NO idea how I got along without is TamoGraph Site…

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    Shutdown And Enable Radios On A Cisco Wireless LAN Controller

    So I’m about to do some work with Ubiquiti in an environment that has a decent chunk of Cisco gear controlled via WLC. I want to kill allllll of the Cisco radios at once so I can do some spectral analysis before I do a complete transition. I found a few commands that will help…

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    Ubiquiti Firmware 5.5.4

    AirOS V Firmware Revision History ==================================================================== Supported products * Bullet M2/M5/Titanium * Rocket M2/M2 Titanium/M3/M365/M900/M5/M5 GPS/M5 Titanium/M6 * NanoStation M2/M3/M365/M5/M6 * NanoStation Loco M2/M900/M5 * NanoBridge M2/M3/M365/M900/M5 * AirGrid M2/M5/HP/HP New * PowerBridge M3/M365/M5/M10 * PicoStation M2 * AirRouter/HP * PowerAP N ==================================================================== Version 5.5.4-Service Release (March 13, 2013) ———————————————- New: – New: Data rate…

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    Secondary IP On Cisco ASA

    While decommissioning some old routers, I need to transfer an IP address to an ASA on a subnet. Unfortunately the ASA’s don’t allow you to do this. The standard “ip address X.X.X.X Y.Y.Y.Y secondary” doesn’t work. I did a quick google and this beautiful bastard had the solution, static ARP with proxy-arp. Figure out what…