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                      I finally know the way to San Jose

It took awhile [1] but the router and firewall are finally installed in the
customer site with the help of G.

Okay, basically, without G's help, I would have been unable to do it. The
customer had two connections to us, a wireless connection (at 10Mbps
(Megabits per second)) and a T-1 (at 1.5Mbps). The connection should handle
all the traffic but if it goes down, the T-1 should take over. Such a
configuration can't be done using static routes (which is what I'm familiar
with) but requires something like OSPF (Open Shortest Path First), which is
beyond my ability.

Sure, it took longer than expected, but then again, the current configuration
was rather “interesting” (and not in a good way). Also, the configuration in
the old customer router didn't survive a power cycle (whoever configured the
old router forgot to save the configuration into non-volatile memory—one
momentary lapse of power and it's hand-configuration time again) but since we
were already connected using the new router it wasn't much of an issue.

G also left behind some light reading in the form of several feet of
documentation on Cisco routers (stuff like Everything you Wanted To Know
About Cisco Routers But Were Too Ignorant to Ask and Teach Yourself Cisco
Routers In a Thousand and One Days) which was kind of him.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2005/09/01.1

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