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…
We recently got Verizon DSL for my grandparents and stuck an older iBook in their house so they'd be able to see pics of the kids and such. They had been using a Ceiva frame for years and loved it but the plan was set to expire and…
Discovered today that the EMC NX4 will do Cisco standard Etherchannel for bonding Ethernet links. It'll also do LACP but Etherchannel seemed a bit easier. Nothing special to configure on the Cisco switch aside from the usual channel-group.…
I've been graciously receiving CiscoPress books for review for a while now so it's about time I actually, you know, review one. First up is the newest CVoice book: I'm going through a re-cert process right now but I'm also trying to…
Well, I've learned something that should have been painfully obvious. I had the following configured for that SIP trunk to the Cisco router I mentioned: context=from-internal allow=ulaw disallow=all dtmfmode=rfc2833 host=192.168.169.2 insecure=very ipaddr=192.168.169.2 port=5060…
I went forward with the Server 2003 R2 install and then added VMWare Server 2.0. Trixbox installed very easily and quickly and I added chan-sccp-b using these instructions. It all went together very well and once I remembered all the places my old config files had old…
I've been trying to install either Server 2008 x64 or ESXi on my ECS motherboard. It has a GeForce chipset, 4gb ram, Pentium e2180 and a SATA drive attached to the onboard controller. ESXi doesn't like the controller but that seems to be a…
...it really means it! I tried to install on a machine with 1gb of ram over the weekend. No, I'm not planning on leaving it that way. I just want to start with some prep and I'll be buying ram later. Turns out,…