[Digitalarchivists] Book scanner ethernet

[John Shutt]

Hey Andrew,

Would a cheap five-port switch work?

John
On Jan 20, 2015 11:08 AM, "Andrew Defries" <andrew.defries at gmail.com> wrote:

> We need more ports! Thanks so much for fixing the port on that column, and
> pulling the ratty LAN cable. If you have a way to get more ports on the
> column next to the library we can dispose of the router for good.
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> Andrew
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 9:05 AM, John <john.d.shutt at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hey Rubin,
>>
>> Adding Andrew Defries to the thread, since he's been doing most of the
>> book scanner hacking lately. Andrew, do you know what the router is about?
>>
>> John
>>
>> On 01/19/2015 06:15 PM, Rubin Abdi wrote:
>> > So while going through and testing out the ethernet ports, Jof and
>> > I noticed that the book scanner was connect to this half way jank
>> > ethernet extension thing going across the space to the column where
>> > all the AV gear is. I figured this was because the ethernet port
>> > the column where the book scanner is was bunk. That's been fixed
>> > today and I've plugged that ethernet cord directly into that port
>> > and pulled the jank cable.
>> >
>> > While doing so I noticed that there's a Linksys/Cisco home wifi
>> > router hooked up. I'm not sure if it's acting as a poor mans switch
>> > or what. There's some concern that someone random who isn't reading
>> > this might go and plug in cables from that back into the network
>> > and start spewing DHCP in all the wrong places.
>> >
>> > Is there anyway I could help to make this device go away? For the
>> > book scanner do you simply need another ethernet port on that
>> > column? Is the book scanner going to live somewhere else that we
>> > can run more ethernet to?
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
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