Archive for June, 2009

Cisco V3PN & QoS on ADSL Uk for VoIP

SoHo workers now share their lines with other PC’s in the house. The following is a config snippet from my router to provide some protection for my VoIP and business traffic.
!
! policy and classes to mark local incoming traffic
!
! whilst QoS pre-clasify should be used I have found it
! unreliable on certain IOS releases.  Also [...]

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Enable Caller-id globally on Cisco Unity Express (CUE)

By default Cisco Unity Express only reports the called number in your message for internal calls.
It’s quite simple to change this so that all calls (where a number is available) have their numbers reported.
Router# service-module service-enable 1/0 session
Trying 192.168.n.2, 2066 … Open
se-192-168-n-2#
se-192-168-n-2# conf t
se-192-168-n-2(config)# voicemail callerid
se-192-168-n-2(config)# end
se-192-168-n-2# wr mem
se-192.168-n-2# exit

Session closed

[Connection to 192.168.n.2 closed by [...]

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Northern Cousins

There is something definately in the water as those Northern Cousins are enormous.

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Sam Knows – LLU Information for the Uk

This is more of a memory jogger for me as I’ve been using this excellent site for years. So for my benefit as well as anyone else who needs it the URL is :
http://www.samknows.com
This is an excellent site originally setup by campaigners to find the latest information on broadband pre-registrations. Since then things have changed [...]

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SSH Escape commands

Note to self:
These are the ssh escape commands from within an ssh connected session.
%~?
Supported escape sequences:
~.  – terminate connection (and any multiplexed sessions)
~B  – send a BREAK to the remote system
~C  – open a command line
~R  – Request rekey (SSH protocol 2 only)
~^Z – suspend ssh
~#  – list forwarded [...]

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Huey Dewey and Louie Relocated

After the Bill and Ben’s departure from the protective environment of the green tent it was time for Huey Dewey and Louie to venture out into the garden. To allow me to monitor these plants it was necessary to install cabling from my work room and up to the end of the garden. After initially [...]

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Tomato Plants Join Bill & Ben

Earlier this week I was offered tomato plants from my father in law. I couldn’t resist my chilli plants bill and ben would have company !!!
So this afternoon with help from my son and :
3 x 72cm (or 28″) green pots
4 x Large Tomato Grow bags
1 x water sprinkler
We started the process of potting potting [...]

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Dewey Has Grown !!!

Important news
Just a quick note to say Dewey has done me proud and put on a spurt of approximately one centimetre in the last two days !
Careful examination of the dowel I installed in the pot and marked shows the increase in hight.
Which is excellent since this implies little or no trauma caused by the [...]

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Installing two site CME and a single CUE

We have two CME’s and a single shared CUE.
Dialplan
CME1:
3002 – Phone 1
3003 – Phone 2
3200 – AA Script (outside scope)
3600 – Voicemail
3998 – MWI off
3999 – MWI on
CME2:
3004 – Phone 1
3005 – Phone 2
3998 – MWI off
3999 – MWI on
on CME1 (Central)
voice service voip
allow-connections sip to h323
allow-connections h323 to sip
allow-connections h323 to h323

interface FastEthernet 0/0
ip [...]

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Potting up

As mentioned in previous posting my plans are to pot up Huey Dewey and Louie from their existing 4″ pots up to 10″.
I have also added dowel sticks from Huey and Dewey’s pots and marked with a line to show how high these guys are.

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