How to setup IPTables for Asterisk 1.6.2 on CentOS 5.4
So recently, a friend of mine setup his very first linux server. Since he’s planning on setting it up as a web-server sitting out on the internet with a public IP, I advised he setup and use iptables. Now I know there are other options out there (some would argue better options), iptables is what I like to use on my own servers, so that’s what I helped him set up. Since I tend...
Read MoreHow to setup Asterisk 1.6.2 on Centos 5.4
UPDATE 05/20/2011 – An updated version of this post, detailing How to setup Asterisk 1.8, has been posted. Check it out if you want to move to the latest and greatest version of asterisk. If you’d prefer to stay with version 1.6.2, please, read on! After looking around for a while, I noticed something – there’s some documentation out there, but not a lot, on how to do a...
Read MoreCustomizing dhcpd.conf on CentOS 5.3
In this article I’m going to explain some tricks that you can use to create custom dhcp address pools using dhcpd.conf on CentOS 5.3. I was at a client recently and they had a need to hand out different TFTP servers to different sets of phones on their network. Their Cisco 7960 phones needed to see one tftp server that contained an older SIP firmware, and their 7961 phones needed to see...
Read MoreRunning multiple instances of TFTP server on CentOS 5.x
Recently, at a client, I needed to combine two TFTP servers onto one CentOS box. Since there were alread clients spread out across the network hard-coded to use specific IP addresses for their TFTP servers, I needed to be able to serve up files from both IP addresses. A quick look around the web didn’t provide a whole lot of help, so I had to come up with my own way of doing...
Read MoreAdding Virtual Network Interfaces on CentOS 5.x
Recently at a client, I found myself consolidating two servers into one. Each server hosted their own array of services, a few of which overlapped. The first server was running a TFTP server, an HTTP web server, and an NTP time server. The second server, which would be the target server of the consolidation, was running it’s own TFTP server, an FTP server, and a DHCP server. The first...
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