Category: VoIP

Avaya 4621SW Config by DHCP

August 10, 2014 - Avaya , Geek , VoIP - by admin - 2 Comments

I’ve been fiddling with an Avaya 4621SW IP phone recently, and I wondered if it would be more appropriate to pass settings to it via DHCP options, rather than editing the 46xxsettings.txt file that it always downloads via TFTP. Previously I had the following in my 46xxsettings.txt file SET SIPDOMAIN […]

Avaya Playtime

March 7, 2009 - Avaya , Geek , VoIP - by admin - No Comments

OK, so I got to borrow an Avaya 4610SW from work, as it would be faster to play with firmware via TFTP on my home network than it would be when using the business network. These are some notes… Turn off 802.1q – my network doesn’t do tagging. Grab the […]

Asterisk Jabber Call Notifications

January 5, 2009 - Asterisk , Computers , Geek , Technology , VoIP - by admin - No Comments

The other evening I busied myself with tweaking Asterisk to do some more geeky things. One such item was where I configured it to send a message to my Jabber account every time there was a call to a particular extension. Great for call logging, integration, and general user friendliness. […]

A Reason to Hate Cisco

January 4, 2009 - Asterisk , Computers , VoIP - by admin - 1 Comment

Last week I ‘accidentally’ bought a Cisco 7911 phone on Ebay. My bid was low, the device was missing a few bits, but I still thought I wouldn’t get it. Suffice to say… I’ve just written this piece on how to load the SIP firmware onto a Cisco 7911 phone. […]

Location Location Location

September 8, 2008 - Internet , VoIP - by admin - No Comments

[ad] It’s time, and Ofcom are beginning to enforce the latest revision to General Condition 4, whereupon VoIP providers must, where technically feasible, provide location information for their VoIP users. In order to aid emergency services, they will transmit details of your fixed line location to the recipient when you […]