PfSense on a soekris instead of monowall notes

Requirements: Soekris NET4801 PfSense Embedded Image CF Reader Serial Cable for the soekris CF Card 256 MB The Steps I took: Backup your old Soekris / Monowall configuration xml file Buy a new CF card so we can keep the old configuration sane so it’s plug and play “back to working” incase pfsense doesn’t work Plug your cf reader into one of your linux boxes, and do this with the image...

April 23, 2007 · 2 min · 300 words · Matt G

Using sipp to stress test your asterisk 1.4 pbx system

In addition to [yesterday’s post][1] about SNMP and Asterisk 1.4, here is how I tested the graphs to ensure the calls were showing up as I expected. Here is what I did tonight to test mine. I used the information I found in this post to write most of this, but I changed it around slightly.. Compile SIPp from here Create this in your asterisk extensions file [sipp] exten => 2005,1,Answer exten => 2005,2,SetMusicOnHold(default) exten => 2005,3,WaitMusicOnHold(20) exten => 2005,4,Hangup exten => 2002,1,Answer exten => 2002,2,Goto(MENUCONTEXTORSIMILARCONTEXT,s,1) exten => 2002,3,Hangup Create this in your sip....

April 17, 2007 · 7 min · 1451 words · Matt G

Monitoring Asterisk 1.4 with SNMP and CACTI for pretty graphs!

This, wasn’t too easy to actually get going. Though I don’t have very much experience with SNMP, which may have been part of my problems. The whole SNMP / RES_SNMP with Asterisk is all very beta too from what I’ve been reading, and since the only other document really that I can find on setting this up, is by Mark Spencer himself, I hope this might help some other users out there too....

April 16, 2007 · 21 min · 4391 words · Matt G

m0n0wall and cisco vlan howto for asterisk voip

Setting up Vlans on your Cisco Switch with Monowall Requirements: Cisco 2950 Soekris or similar w/ m0n0wall Network Diagram: Network Hardware Picture: The Howto First, we telnet to the switch and perform the following: cisco1>enable Password: cisco1#conf t Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z. cisco1(config)#int vlan10 Now we can configure our first vlan, in this case vlan10. Now, since we’re doing the phones vlan, we’ll give it a description...

April 15, 2007 · 8 min · 1538 words · Matt G

cool stuff… rogers boot info

We’re having some work done on our basement, and to give the guys some more room, and to visit my mom, we decided that we’d go up to our cottage for the weekend. When we got back we noticed that the cable wasn’t on, so I plugged it back in, and was presented with the following debug screens from my Rogers Digital Cable Scientific Atlanta (Read: CISCO) Explorer 3200 Unit....

April 12, 2007 · 1 min · 112 words · Matt G