Category Archives: Work

Asterisk with SS7 via Wanpipe, Dahdi and libss7 – with ISUP SAM support

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Barry O'Donovan

A howto on installing Asterisk with SS7 supported via libss7 on Sangoma hardware along with support for ISUP SAM messages. Continue reading →

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Some New Nagios Plugins

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Barry O'Donovan

Over the past ten years I have left many many new and hacked Nagios plugins on many servers around the globe. I’m now making a concerted effort to find them, clean them, maintain them centrally and release them. To that … Continue reading →

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So I’ve Made the Switch from SVN to Git…

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Barry O'Donovan

…and I’m bloody delighted.  The straw finally came when Nick forced my hand for a project we wanted to release through our work in INEX. I was pushing for Google Code but he had his heart set on GitHub. Now, … Continue reading →

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Porting Experience with Vodafone

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Barry O'Donovan

This post could equally be called Why do Service Providers Make Their Problems my Problem? I recently migrated my company’s mobile phone account over to Vodafone via The Carphone Warehouse. We had two numbers to port but when I got … Continue reading →

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Benchmarking the Mikrotik Routerboards RB750 and RB750G

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Barry O'Donovan

Continuing on from today’s earlier post, Benchmarking the Mikrotik Routerboard RB1100, I now present some results for the RB750 and RB750G using the same methodology and platform. The RB750 and the RB750G are two identical looking routers intended for the SOHO environment: … Continue reading →

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