[Rack] Ethernet is down
Rubin Abdi
rubin at starset.net
Sun Aug 31 18:35:41 UTC 2014
Torrie Fischer wrote on 2014-08-30 21:03:
> +1, though I'm honestly not a networking person. I'd maybe show up to help
> document things but couldn't give good input.
I think part of the idea (for me) is to also educate people that know
some and want to know more.
> It is, though when I got here earlier this evening it was dead. To fix it, I:
>
> 1. Unplugged all the POE lines
> 2. Wired together the lan ports on the two POE injectors
> 3. Plugged the monkeybrains line into a POE port
> 4. Plugged the noisebridge wifi line into the other POE port
>
> As it stands, the current setup is: Monkeybrains -> POE Injector -> POE
> Injector -> Noisebridge wifi. Ugly, but at least I've got wifi that can send
> mail to rack at .
Ok, I think that means only 1 wifi access point is running then, which
isn't great but it's better than nothing. :P I doubt we'll have more
than 60 clients connecting to the device in the next few days.
> Bikeshed has been doing nothing at all and was last seen with an error light,
> so I've got it on a workbench to try and coax some serial data out of it and
> see why it isn't working. I also can't access minotaur, so I'm kinda grasping
> around in the dark.
>
> Should Bikeshed have some CF card to boot off of? Its socket is empty :(
>
> Related: I hear that we might be getting a new switch sometime soon? Would it
> have POE so that we wouldn't have two loose POE injectors just sitting there,
> waiting to be messed with? I'm in favor of buying a standalone rackmount POE
> injector as well if a non-POE switch has already been acquired.
I have a 5 port managed POE injector, I think we need something with a
few more ports but this'll do for now.
I don't think I can make it over today, and honestly feel like I'll need
help from someone who can better visualize VLAN setups around.
--
Rubin
rubin at starset.net
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