Gizmo5 is finally the one to break the Skype barrier. They have a new service now called OpenSky (har) that is essentially a proxy between Gizmo's SIP network and the Skype network. I imagine they're doing something like the non-free Skype Asterisk channels that have been…
It took a lot of fiddling and googling but finally I got PXE booting to work using my DHCP scope on IOS. So, here's the code: ip dhcp pool ITS network 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 bootfile bootpxeboot.com next-server 192.168.1.3 I…
I had quite a bit of trouble getting this to work the other day. After some googling I came across this thread over on 6200networks.com. I had matched up the config he had listed just by chance because I was also enabling an L2L VPN. However, I still couldn&…
I've been working on some complex VPN configurations by using GNS3 and PEMU which is built in. It's nice to be able to throw together a bunch of devices and get them talking without much fuss. However, I discovered today that PEMU is really designed to…
Once again, I've moved the in house phone system. I was running into problems with the virtual version I had running for the last couple of months. It worked pretty well most of the time but the clock was continually out of sync and that caused other problems…
It's official, I'm going independent. I know, I probably could have picked better market timing. I think we'll be getting a bump in the next month or so though and this year might turn out ok. Time will tell. In the meantime, I need…
I've been hearing this rumor for a while now that Cisco is getting into the blade server business. I'm having a hard time with this being a smart move but I can see the reasoning. Om posted about the latest rumors today and I think he…