feast of sysadminly goodness

The Murkworks server core is at MurkNorth - spazzkat helped me get stuff loaded at MurkSouth and unloaded up here before I spent about an hour wrestling with the new network core at North - that took until around 6pm. Then annathepiper and I headed back to MurkSouth and got it fully online with a new router/DHCP server/NAT combination.

We were going to use the Cisco, but after fighting it for longer than I want to think about, I figured out that it just couldn't handle the combination of having a fixed IP address for itself and a DHCP/NAT server for the machines behind it - you know, one of the most standard configurations in all of TIME - so Anna suggested I call Office Depot to see whether they had anything, and they did! But "Chris" said they were closing. I said we were three minutes away and we flew down there. I charged in and said "One of you is named Chris!" and actually found who I talked to and got the thing and got out of there without even being the last person out. That was kind of fun.

Then it was time to re-reconfigure the Cisco into a bridge again (forgetting that the modem gets it wrong again upon reset - second Qwest support call of the day, both of which got me correct answers, unlike in Verizonland), configure the new router (worked instantly), hook it all up, reconfigure mamishka's machines, and all done!

I am so tired. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

But I'm burning CDs anyway. Tomorrow, finally: lodestone.