Been really busy lately , so couldn’t update the blog much , well , I am finally leaving for Afghanistan tonight. Looking forward to the change in envoirnment. I’ll be working in Afghanistan Wireless as an Intelligent Network Engineer, will try my best to keep this blog updated.

Looking forward to a roller coaster ride inshAllah!

For FC8

1. Make sure gcc , gcc-c++ , bison , flex , make , openssl and openssl-devel are present

2. yum -y install boost-devel

3. export BOOST_ROOT=/usr/include/

4. Get ACE Here .

5. tar xvf ACE-5.5.tar.gz

6. cd ACE_wrappers

7. mkdir build

8. cd build

9. Patch the configure file

— configure.orig 2008-08-05 11:11:19.000000000 -0800
+++ configure 2008-08-05 11:13:30.000000000 -0800
…
@@ -10329,7 +10329,7 @@ _ACEOF
*)
{ echo “$as_me:$LINENO: enabling GNU G++ visibility attribute support” >&5
echo “$as_me: enabling GNU G++ visibility attribute support” >&6;}
- ACE_GXX_VISIBILITY_FLAGS=”-fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden”
+ ACE_GXX_VISIBILITY_FLAGS=”-fvisibility=hidden”
ACE_CXXFLAGS=”$ACE_CXXFLAGS $ACE_GXX_VISIBILITY_FLAGS”
cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF

10. cd build ; ../configure

11. make && make install

12. export ACE_ROOT=/usr/local/src/ACE_wrappers/

13. tar xvf opendiameter-1.0.7-i.tar.gz

14. cd opendiameter-1.0.7-i

15. ./configure

16. make

17. make install

23rd Aug, 2008.

Thanks to Rehan at Super Technologies , i got my hands on a demo worldcall e-vdo usb stick. Still in the process of setting it up, will post a unboxing video & detailed review soon!

Even if your hands are shaking

And your faith is broken

Even as the eyes are closing

Do it with a heart wide open

Say what you need to say …

(John Mayer – Say)

My Mobilink Wimax Zyxel CPE died tonight , somewhere around 10 , It first stopped camping and then just stopped broadcasting wifi signals as well , I tried ethernet , but of no use , the 4 port switch is the only thing that’s working. I don’t know what’s wrong with this equipment

Have logded a complaint on 369 , let’s hope they can fix this issue.

UPDATE: Turns out my indoor CPE was faulty. It has been replaced with a new one    and I am back online :-p

Just a quick update , anthm @ freeswitch.org has fixed the bug in freeswitch that was preventing the switch to register with Wateen’s gateway. So , go , grab the latest freeswitch code from svn and compile. Here are the settings for your sip_profile

<gateway name=”wateen.net”>
<param name=”username” value=”021XXXXXX”/>
<param name=”auth-username” value=”021XXXXXX@wateen.net”/>
<param name=”password” value=”"/>
<param name=”register-proxy” value=”sip:58.27.240.22:9060″/>
<param name=”register” value=”true”/>
</gateway>

Have fun! and drop a comment if this post was helpful.

PTCL has moved to a soft launch phase for their iptv product , and are calling PTCL DSL subscribers and offering them free IPTV connections ( NO charges for the Set Top Box + Service ) until commercial launch, they are currently advertising 101 channels along with the ability to rewind Geo News , HBO , ESPN and a couple of other channels.

I got a call yesterday and have subscribed for smartTV , let’s see how the installation goes. I’ll keep you guys updated.

Oh btw, if you want to avail this offer , just call 1236 and order and ask them for it. I’ve heard that their set-top boxes are based on linux, that just makes it more tempting for me ! So Stay tuned!

I’ve been using Mobilink Infinity Wimax service for the last 20 days or so , and wanted to share some numbers / graphs with users. I’ve been plotting it 24/7  by SNMP . The overall usage experience is okay now, the service works most of the times ( apart from the weird timeouts that i start getting sometimes ). The only thing we need from Mobilink Infinity team now , is to

1. Reduce Network Latency (Too many Hops inside their own Network)

2. Stabilize the IP network ( Get rid of the timeouts / packet losses )

3. Open inbound traffic on our public IPs.

4. Disable the ALGs on their gateway  ( SIP / H323 & FTP ).

So , here are the stats , I’ve added some red & yellow lines , red  is where infinity generally is , yellow is what i get on on networks ( which is still high ). Click on the graphs to enlarge them. The blank spaces you see , is where i lost total connectivity. The service has improved a lot from the initial review Thanks to everyone at Mobilink Infinity for trying their best to solve the issues . Kudos to all of them!

Latency towards Yahoo

Latency towards Google

Latency towards Infinity SoftSwitch

Bandwidth Usage

While trying to configure wateen sip on my freeswitch install , i encountered a bug , aparently wateen has a broken implementation , they dont have srv records for their domain wateen.net, but their sip server / ims envoirnment seems to be forcing it , in the sip – uri. Here’s exactly whats broken

Working – Eyebeam

REGISTER sip:wateen.net SIP/2.0
To: Wateen User<sip:021xxxxx@wateen.net>
From: Wateen User<sip:021xxxxx@wateen.net>;tag=90298206
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 192.168.1.51:6473;branch=z9hG4bK-d87543-704653288-1–d87543-;rport
Call-ID: 3736784a1d468701
CSeq: 1 REGISTER
Contact: <sip:021xxxxx@192.168.1.51:6473>
Expires: 3600
Max-Forwards: 70
Allow: INVITE, ACK, CANCEL, OPTIONS, BYE, REFER, NOTIFY, MESSAGE, SUBSCRIBE, INFO
User-Agent: eyeBeam release 3007n stamp 17816
Content-Length: 0

Not Working – Freeswitch

REGISTER sip:58.27.240.22:9060;transport=udp SIP/2.0
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 67.18.xx.xxx:5080;rport;branch=z9hG4bKB0majXrF4mBem
Max-Forwards: 70
From: <sip:021xxxx@wateen.net;transport=udp>;tag=BQZeg23XQQX5r
To: <sip:021xxxxx@wateen.net;transport=udp>
Call-ID: 6d64ca19-d640-122b-1685-e6fdbcfd8af8
CSeq: 102450077 REGISTER
Contact: <sip:021xxxxx@67.18.89.4:5080;transport=udp>
Expires: 3600
User-Agent: FreeSWITCH-mod_sofia/1.0.1-exported
Allow: INVITE, ACK, BYE, CANCEL, OPTIONS, PRACK, MESSAGE, SUBSCRIBE, NOTIFY, REFER, UPDATE, REGISTER, INFO
Supported: 100rel, timer, precondition, path, replaces
Content-Length: 0

so upon more investigation , found out that register-proxy is putting up the ip of the server in the request uri instead of using NTATAG_PROXY .

I have openned up a bug report with freeswitch , lets hope it gets resolved quickly