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dhcp woe and madness
I thought I was going to need more cable and another switch, but after approximately five hours of woe involving at least five machines on the network, tcpdump, subnetting, dummy devices, shouting at the router screaming "10.1.1.0 is not an invalid address to route to, you bitch", running out of trademarked caffeinated beverages, the router and my laptop[1] deciding they like each others' IP addresses much better and randomly switching places, the network routing DHCP but not IP like a girl, turning off my Internet-facing firewall, ping, ping and more ping, working out subnet addresses in binary with notepad, watching "Brass Eye" and S4C, I have persuaded my network that it wants to serve our IP block to the wired-in machines from the wireless router and 10/8 to everyone else from the wi-fi-free Linux server. This is, of course, RIPE's fault for not giving me a /24 of my very own.
And I did it all from the comfy sofa underneath blankies.
It's almost like being me, ten years ago.
[1] I have a laptop. Did I mention that I have a laptop? I have a laptop. It is shiny and silver and has a big wide screen and wi-fi and audio and a dvd rewriter, and (after another eight or so hours of work last night) it all works in Linux. I am fab.
I thought I was going to need more cable and another switch, but after approximately five hours of woe involving at least five machines on the network, tcpdump, subnetting, dummy devices, shouting at the router screaming "10.1.1.0 is not an invalid address to route to, you bitch", running out of trademarked caffeinated beverages, the router and my laptop[1] deciding they like each others' IP addresses much better and randomly switching places, the network routing DHCP but not IP like a girl, turning off my Internet-facing firewall, ping, ping and more ping, working out subnet addresses in binary with notepad, watching "Brass Eye" and S4C, I have persuaded my network that it wants to serve our IP block to the wired-in machines from the wireless router and 10/8 to everyone else from the wi-fi-free Linux server. This is, of course, RIPE's fault for not giving me a /24 of my very own.
And I did it all from the comfy sofa underneath blankies.
It's almost like being me, ten years ago.
[1] I have a laptop. Did I mention that I have a laptop? I have a laptop. It is shiny and silver and has a big wide screen and wi-fi and audio and a dvd rewriter, and (after another eight or so hours of work last night) it all works in Linux. I am fab.