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VTP (+DTP) security threat – myth or fact?

There is some confusion and misunderstanding regarding VTP (VLAN Trunking Protocol)+DTP (Dynamic Trunking Protocol) and this article will hopefully make it all clear. Most of the confusion comes from the statement that VTP is always a security threat to your network. There are even some CCIE material which I find to be wrong on this topic so my advice here is to test everything by yourself.

Installing SIPp 3.2 on Debian Squeeze 6.0.5 32 bit

SIPp version 3.2 hasn't precompiled binary packages. There are some instructions provided at the sipp home page, however small comment about limits.h is missing and therefore the compilation will not be succesfull. Here we provide instructions how to compile Sipp with SSL, pcap play and distributed pauses features enabled.

Install prerequisities

Three pre-requisites are necessary to compile SIPp:

Kamailio Call establishment permission rules

This article talks about deploying permission control mechanism for call establishment in Kamailio SIP Proxy.

In many VoIP solutions, it is crutial to deploy numbering scheme and write down rules where users are/aren't allowed to call.
On top of that, a company can allow the people to call outside, for example to PSTN. The rules can change over time as well as the numbering scheme itself.