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Stardate: 20211115.1453 | |
Location: Local park picnic table | |
Input Device: 7202 (cygwin) | |
Audio: Skate-or-die sounds, birds, traffic | |
Visual: picnic table, skate park | |
Emotional State: was discom-praise BOB-ulated, now ok. | |
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My day started just kinda messed up. I made the mistake of working | |
on the home network. Last night, I stayed up until 3AM working on | |
the network and continued this morning. More of planning and head | |
churning, rather than implementation. I tend to do that cart before | |
or sometimes on top of horse. | |
Sometime last week, I woke up with my family informing me that the | |
home intarwebs stopped working. I restarted the Customer Provided | |
Equipment (my router, not the telco's) and long story short, my | |
router's config was wiped. I quickly threw a config together to get | |
us up and running, especially since my wife works remotely. The | |
network was not configured to my liking and planned on working on it | |
over the weekend. | |
Fast-forward to Sunday, I am working on the network configuration as | |
well as updating the router firmware. I am also redesigning my | |
network since I decide that it is an opportune time to do so and I | |
also neglected to make backups of my previous config. I also decide | |
that it was a perfect time to check for any network hardware that | |
needs to be updated. | |
Around midnight, I am looking to check one of my managed switches. | |
The default IP address does not work for the device and the last | |
time I accessed the device was probably quite some time ago, which | |
was probably when I manually renumbered the IP address. So my next | |
option was access via the 9 pin console port. | |
I go hunting around for my Cisco console kit, find it, then realize | |
that I only have one RJ-45 to DE9 serial adapter and need two. I | |
go digging around my boxes of junk and find 3 RJ-45 to DB25 | |
adapters. I also found a 25 pin to 9 pin adapter, but no RJ-45 to | |
DE9. So I try assembing all the parts together to make it work, but | |
it did not. The connection from my laptop to the switch basically | |
looked like this: | |
_____ ______ ________ _______ | |
| USB | | DE9 | | RJ45 | | DB25 | | |
| to |---| to |---Console Cable---| to |---| to |>>>[SWITCH] | |
| DE9 | | RJ45 | | DB25 | | DE9 | | |
|_____| |______| |______| |______| | |
So a little before 3AM, I decided to just quit it and order a new | |
DE9 to RJ-45. These things are less than 4 dollars. It's funny how | |
fixated on things I can become especially after midnight when I am | |
tired and need to rest. Sometimes at that point it is hard for me | |
to just let go of the damn thing and get some sleep. | |
This morning I tested the network and made sure my wife could work. | |
I started to get into the config some more, but had the presence of | |
mind to force myself to put it down. The network configuration is | |
not complete, but it is functional and partially to my liking. There | |
is still much work to be done did. Before I proceed, I need to put | |
my plan on paper so I do not get side-tracked and hijacked by my | |
monkey mind. I also need to keep the cart behind the horse and not | |
build the plane while it is in the air. Document the plan first and | |
then implement. No need for unnecessary hate from the fam due to | |
unplanned network outages. | |
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