[Noisebridge-discuss] internet down; how to fix?

Andy Isaacson adi at hexapodia.org
Mon Mar 9 18:12:20 UTC 2009


On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 01:48:17AM -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote:
> The Comcast link stopped passing traffic around 2009-03-09 00:45.  The
> soekris didn't fail over to the DSL so I had to reverse-engineer it.
> 
> I ended up with
> 
> ifconfig sis2 down
> ifconfig sis1 66.92.8.180 netmask 255.255.255.0
> route add default  66.92.8.1
> kill `ps ax|grep dnsmasq|cut -d' ' -f1`
> /usr/local/sbin/dnsmasq --except-interface=sis1 --expand-hosts \
>     --no-dhcp-interface=sis0 --bogus-priv -S 64.81.79.2
> 
> Matt, Jof -- would be great to not have to figure this out again. :|

Now that I've slept, the answer is more obvious -- I should have fixed
the noisebridge-dsl wifi AP rather than trying to fix the soekris.  My
bad.

-andy



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