[Noisebridge-discuss] Internet down

[Andy Isaacson]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:04:59AM -0800, Matt Peterson wrote:
> I'll check this out later this afternoon, likely around 5ish.  We were
> half-way though re-configuring the router and never got the finish.
> 
> The plan is to ghetto load balance between the 'fast' Cable and 'slow'
> DSL connections.  This makes it easy to say push port 25 out to an ISP
> that doesn't filter this by default.
> 
> Once a configuration is found to work reliably between the two
> connections, I'll put together a simple web CGI to manually failover
> between the ISP's.

Thanks for checking, Matt.

In addition to a manual failover UI for the soekris, I'd really like to
see it configured like so:


    comcast               speakeasy
      |                       |
      |                     wrt54g ===== SSID noisebridge-dsl
      |                       |
      +---- sis0   sis1 ------+
              soekris
                sis2
                 |
               cisco
                 |
                 +--- ruckus  ============= SSID noisebridge
                 |
                 +--- pony
                 |
                 +--- printer
                 |
                 ... etc

(of course the exact interface names on soekris aren't relevant, I just
wanted to make my idea of the configuration clear.)

(Also, speakeasy has multiple static IPs for us to use -- at least two
-- so we can have the wrt54g NAT on one of them and bridge another to
the soekris.)

That way, the soekris can be modified, rebooted, improved, filtered, etc
and we'll continuously have a working network config through
speakeasy -> noisebridge-dsl.

Once the soekris has been competely stable for a month or two, and
people are confident it won't be undergoing maintenance or improvement,
then perhaps repurposing the noisebridge-dsl AP would make sense.  But,
having a dead-simple "the modem plugs into the AP, power cycle both if
it's not passing traffic" configuration will help avoid the situation we
had on Monday.

-andy