MrKernel Network

I have two internet connections coming into my place, and I thought it would be fun to extend my VPN to my friends place to two tunnels with BGP. Our setup looks something like this:

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I took a few pictures of some of the phone I have around the house.

   

I have a few Cisco 7960’s, a 7920, and a Polycom 501 I use regularly around the house. In case you are wondering what the VR button does on my phones. I have Mister House running to control my lights and other stuff around the house, and that button is a speed button for my speech recgonition server. I will write more on this later.

It still amazes me how little Cisco information there is on the web. You look at Microsoft, OS X, Linux, or BSD and you will find How-to’s, forms, and knowledge base articals. Is it some big ploy to hord all this knowledge from the general public? But, I don’t see that many third party sites. Mind you most of my work with Cisco has been with there Phones as of late, but I am pretty proficent with there routers and switches. Anyways I was, again, trying to find out when Cisco will have IPv6 for there phones, I have 4 hand sets at home, and we use Cisco at work, when I came accross the following blog [http://www.ciscoblog.com/]. This artical [http://www.ciscoblog.com/archives/2006/04/learning_simple_nat.html] in particular sparked my interest. Its a nice concise video on how to configure NAT on a Cisco router. One note, in the video he uses the overload command because he has a lot of computers behind the router. This option may not be wanted if you are using certain SIP phones behind it. More on this in my next post about SIP and NAT. Maybe I will try to do some videos of my own?