Re: Quigon... the evil router.

[Dan Brosemer <odin@cleannorth.org>]

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Today, at ~4pm, Shaw decided it would be nice to assign us a new IP, so...
alright.  The DHCP protocol doesn't allow you to do that to a running
machine, but no-one accused them of trying to be nice to their users.  So, I
came in shortly after 7 to do a straightforward:

# ps aux|grep dhclient|awk '{print $2}'|xargs kill
# dhclient ec0

But the console was locked.  I was kind of curious if it was the same
problem we had many times before, so I hit the reset switch.

It didn't come back!

Power cycle.

It didn't come back!

Dave and I eventually traced it to a dead NIC.  The one connected to the
cable modem.  Hrm.  (conspiracy theory:  Shaw blowed up our network card!)

So I tried the various spare NICs floating around the office... to no avail.
Crap.

Eventually, a friend of mine came through with a loan of a network card
which works.  I'll be going to get a couple tulip cards tomorrow, so we can
have strictly "good" hardware in that router.

This really has _not_ been the month for our router!

-Dan

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