Articles by artaxerxes

• QoS And Traffic Shaping For VoIP Users Using iproute2 And Asterisk

  Author: artaxerxes • Tags: linux • Comments: 0

  QoS And Traffic Shaping For VoIP Users Using iproute2 And Asterisk The quality of my VoIP phone calls suffered whenever I was downloading or uploading anything. This was irritating, especially for those calling me (I heard them better than they heard me). So I poked at Iproute2 and other howtos, especially with regard to VoIP traffic, but I couldn't find anything that worked well. After some playing around, I've found settings that were right for me: consistant VoIP quality, regardless of any activities on the wire.

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• Integrate Thunderbird with Active Directory

  Author: artaxerxes • Tags: linux • Comments: 2

  Integrate Thunderbird with Active Directory To integrate Thunderbird to the AD, you must already have installed and configured Kerberos and Samba so that you can use the net ads to obtain the information you need. There are a lot of documentation out there to get to that point. I will just highlight the main points for the sake of completeness.

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