Using FreeDiameter as a DRA
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Okay, so a little late to the party on this one… The other day I had to setup a TDM (E1) based SS7 link (oh yes my friend – they still exist) to interconnect with another operator. I’m using Cisco’s ITP product as the STP / Signaling Gateway, and my trusty port mirror for what’s […]
Updated documentation for managing D150 transcoding cards
In our last few posts we got CGrateS setup in order to have rates and tariffs in the system, so we can price a call. Where we ended we were able to use the APIerSv1.GetCost method to get the cost of a call, and today, we’re going to actually create some rated CDRs. So again […]
Using Android’s development features to allow remote control of a UE in the field for testing the cellular network.
Finally rating a call end-to-end with CGrates!
CGRates in Baby Steps – Part 2 – Introduction to the CGrates API
Linking FreeSWITCH and CGrates for realtime credit control and billing
A new tool I’ve written to stream packets from one machine to another for analysis in real time.
Ubuntu 20.04 repos have a fairly outdated release of Wireshark, and the other day when trying to open a packet capture I got the below error: After doing an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade wireshark, the version of Wireshark, and the issue remained. I have compiled Wireshark from source before, but it’s a real headache, […]
Getting started with CGrateS to bill for calls in a Telecom environment.
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USSD Gateway with Osmocom
Unstructured Supplementary Service Data or “USSD” is the stack used in Cellular Networks to offer interactive text based menus and systems to Subscribers. If you remember topping up your mobile phone credit via a text menu on your flip phone, there’s a good chance that was USSD*. For a period, USSD Services provided Sporting Scores, […]
Build instructions for YaTE
Short mystery regarding cloned Ubuntu VMs with different MAC Addresses being allocated the same IP Addresses by DHCP.
Getting from Point Code A to Point Code Z.
Chances are if you’re reading this, you’re trying to work out what Telephony Binary-Coded Decimal encoding is. I got you. Again I found myself staring at encoding trying to guess how it worked, reading references that looped into other references, in this case I was encoding MSISDN AVPs in Diameter. How to Encode a number […]
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Adding Vlans to VMware Workstation
Setting up VLANs in Workstation to allow ever-more complicated network setups.
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K8s multiple objects in YAML File
Defining multiple K8 objects in the same YAML file
New database time to support slicing and a migration path for existing users.
I’d been trying for some time to get Kamailio acting as a Diameter Routing Agent with mixed success, and eventually got it working, after a few changes to the codebase of the ims_diameter_server module. It is rather unstable, in that if it fails to dispatch to a Diameter peer, the whole thing comes crumbling down, […]