So according to WordPress this is my 500th post.| nickvsnetworking.com
So according to WordPress this is my 500th post. I started this blog when I got my first job – I was installing Nortel equipment. The name was meant as “Nick versus Networking”, as I attempted to take on the trade and learn it. Going through CCNA, networking certs, I got way more into SIP/VoIP, … Continue reading Meta: 500 Posts Apparently→| Nick vs Networking
The UE Authentication Service is consumed by the AMF. The AMF initiates the authentication operation, when indicated, as part of the UE registration process. The AUSF performs either 5G-AKA or EAP-based authentication based on information received from the AMF. If EAP authentication is used then the AUSF and the UE exchange EAP messages through the … Continue reading Authentication in 5GC – Nausf-auth→| Nick vs Networking
Polarization Basics| Nick vs Networking
In a scenario where we don’t know how long an event will be (for example at the start of a voice call, we don’t know how long it’s going to go for, or the start of a data session but we don’t know how much data will be used) but need to want to A) … Continue reading SessionS in CGrateS→| Nick vs Networking
Having building footprints inside Atoll is super-duper valuable, this means you can calculate your percentage of homes / buildings covered, after all geographic coverage and population coverage are two very different things.| Nick vs Networking
Disclaimer: This is in a lab held together with duct tape and glue that doesn’t do anything important. Use at your own risk. I hit this issue in Proxmox whenever trying to do anything with VMs: TASK ERROR: clone failed: lvcreate ‘SDH/vm-202-disk-0’ error: Insecure dependency in exec while running with -T switch at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base/IPC/Open3.pm line … Continue reading Proxmox Insecure dependency in exec while running with -T switch→| Nick vs Networking
Recently we were debugging a slow memory leak in a little-used Kamailio module.| Nick vs Networking
Clutter data describes real world things on the planet’s surface that attenuate signals, for example trees, shrubs, buildings, bodies of water, etc, etc. There’s also different types of trees, some types of trees attenuate signals more than others, different types of buildings are the same. Getting clutter data used to be crazy expensive, and done … Continue reading Importing Global Clutter data into Forsk Atoll→| Nick vs Networking
Pinout for the Fluke TN2100 Enhanced Far End Terminator| Nick vs Networking
Another post in the “vendors thought Java would last forever but the web would just a fad” series, this one on getting Nokia BTS Site Manager (which is used to administer the pre-Airscale Nokia base stations) running on a modern Linux distro.| Nick vs Networking
As a kid I did lighting for stage shows. | Nick vs Networking
Like a lot of companies, we’re moving away from VMware, and in our case, shifting to Proxmox.| Nick vs Networking
For the past few years I’ve run a Dell R630 as one of our labs / testing, it’s hosted down the road from me, and with 32 cores and 256 GB of RAM, it’s got enough grunt to run what we need for testing stuff on the East coast and messing around. We’ve got a proper DC with compute in Sydney and Perth, but for breaking stuff, I wanted my own lab.| Nick vs Networking
The docs describe AttributeS as a Key-Value-Store, but that’s probably selling it short – You can do some really cool stuff with AttributeS, and in this post, we’re going to learn about using AttributeS to transform stuff.| Nick vs Networking
In our last post we covered the basics of NB-IoT Non-IP Data Deliver (NIDD), and if that acronym soup wasn’t enough for you, we’re going to take a deep dive into the flows for attaching, sending, receiving and closing a NIDD session.| Nick vs Networking
