After upgrading to Asterisk 1.8 from 1.6.1 I noticed the CALLERID() function was not updating the clid and src fields in the CDR. Previously on Asterisk 1.6.1 with FreePBX 2.7 the clid and src would be set to the outbound cid. With Asterisk 1.8 those fields were staying as the sip device id. Read more…
With CentOS 5.6 Red Hat added an optional php53 package for those that need a PHP version later than 5.1.6. After removing the php packages and installing php53 you will probably notice that the mcrypt extension is missing. With a few steps we can compile and install this extension. Read more…
I have Vyatta setup to send out router advertisements so clients are auto configured with an IPv6 address. This works great for workstations, but I prefer servers to be manually configured. The auto configured address on Linux is built from the MAC address and on Windows it is randomly generated. When assigning a static IPv6 address the auto configured address is still assigned so you end up with two addresses. Read more…