Remotely Reboot your Cisco 79xx Phone even with Asterisk PBX

Up until a few days ago, I don’t think it was possible to reboot a Cisco 7960 or Cisco 7970 remotely, unless you are using Cisco Call manager software. Great, where does that leave us Asterisk users? The other day I was fortunate enough to be contacted by Dave Gibbons who was also tired of dealing with Cisco to try and find a method to do this. He’s gone ahead and made a script that remotely “pushes the buttons” on the phone so it will automatically reboot with a simple command line utility....

September 5, 2008 · 2 min · 423 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