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Category Archives: Notes

Internet Failover Using Cisco HSRP

I have a very unique internet setup at my house, I currently have two Road Runner connections. One is for all the roommates and the other is for me, paid out of pocket for my consulting work. There are plenty of products out there that would allow failover but my version of failover, is like […]

trixbox without branding of FreePBX

Anyone who uses trixbox within the recent months has probably read about the battle between Phillip at FreePBX and Kerry at Fonality, which owns trixbox. Fonality forked FreePBX in order to better brand the product into trixbox. Not something I am interested in. I want all the latest features and bug fixes that FreePBX and […]

Static Routes in Linux

Something that I have found very useful in small networks that have more than one subnet is the occasional static route. Routes can be added temporarily or permanently. The syntax is the same it is just a matter of where to enter the command. The command is: route add -net 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 10.0.0.1 […]

IPCop DHCP Fixed/Static Lease Script

About a year ago I found the need to create a lot of fixed leases for use with IPCop. I sat down and using some loop and awk magic I was able to develop a fairly decent script to get the job done. I will post the file with a day or two but here […]