Overnight I implemented a script that dynamically generates the home page. The purpose of this change is to give better visibility to new information and reader contributions. Off to the side you can see sections showing recent entries into our message boards, recent reader comments to our blog , most popular forum topics. There’s much …
Category Archives: Technology
Starent 16000 PDSN MOP – Adding IP Pools
Purpose The purpose of this Method Of Procedure (MOP) is to add ranges of IP Addresses, called “pools”, to the Starent 16000 PDSN. An IP address from an IP pool is assigned to a subscriber by the PDSN when a data session is initiated. Procedure Begin this procedure by creating a backup of the PDSN …
Starent 16000 PDSN Troubleshooting
I’ve been working for a couple months now to create the software infrastructure for allocating wireless data network resources based upon the product purchased by the subscriber. This means granting them access to the purchased resources, and denying access to other resources. This is one of the functions of the PDSN, in cooperation with the …
Starent PDSN
We continue working to deploy new Wireless Data plans. This week we’ve stumbled on an issue in the edge router. It does not appear to be properly detecting the OSPF routes. This problem manifests itself when the 4th octet of the IP address assigned by the PDSN to a handset exceeds “128”. Whenever a higher …
SPAM, Sendmail and favicon.ico
I’ve been working on site administration for the last couple of days. To reduce the volume of SPAM-bots registering on the message boards I installed a modification in early June. Unfortunately I neglected to test the modification adequately and it had the unintended consequence of stopping not only the SPAM-bots but also legitimate users. My …