The sweet taste of success
Mar. 20th, 2007 08:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoGary made oatmeal cookies this morning in the newly repaired oven. They went to his rehearsal, but some came back. Tasty.
The firewall upgrade I was dreading ran without a hitch this morning. Everything came back up working. Then I discovered that some license keys had disappeared in the process and had to be reloaded. That wasn't supposed to interrupt service, but it did. When the keys were loaded into the control software, the firewall immediately rebooted itself again, interrupting service for another two minutes. Fortunately not much was affected.
Not only is the firewall still working and now on a current level of software, but my VPN setup from home works. I had it all configured right all along, and it was a bug in the old version of the firewall that was keeping it from running. I can get into the network from both my Linux box and my mate's XP. One more small patch to go on, this time for the stupid daylight savings time thing and it only affects the dates and times written to log files. That will happen tomorrow night.
The cold is finally going away, I think. Only a cough remains, and not as bad as I sometimes get. Now if the scary dreams associated with taking cold medicine would just stop (the medicine was stopped three days ago) I'd be able to get a whole night's sleep.
Oh, and no freezing temperatures overnight are predicted for at least the next week. Gary put a garden hose out to the barns today, so no more hauling buckets of water at least for now. With any luck, we're done with that. The ground under the barns where they have to dig up to replace the hydrants is still frozen, but it's starting to thaw now. Probably take three or four weeks though.
*goes to bed early, with a nice book*
The firewall upgrade I was dreading ran without a hitch this morning. Everything came back up working. Then I discovered that some license keys had disappeared in the process and had to be reloaded. That wasn't supposed to interrupt service, but it did. When the keys were loaded into the control software, the firewall immediately rebooted itself again, interrupting service for another two minutes. Fortunately not much was affected.
Not only is the firewall still working and now on a current level of software, but my VPN setup from home works. I had it all configured right all along, and it was a bug in the old version of the firewall that was keeping it from running. I can get into the network from both my Linux box and my mate's XP. One more small patch to go on, this time for the stupid daylight savings time thing and it only affects the dates and times written to log files. That will happen tomorrow night.
The cold is finally going away, I think. Only a cough remains, and not as bad as I sometimes get. Now if the scary dreams associated with taking cold medicine would just stop (the medicine was stopped three days ago) I'd be able to get a whole night's sleep.
Oh, and no freezing temperatures overnight are predicted for at least the next week. Gary put a garden hose out to the barns today, so no more hauling buckets of water at least for now. With any luck, we're done with that. The ground under the barns where they have to dig up to replace the hydrants is still frozen, but it's starting to thaw now. Probably take three or four weeks though.
*goes to bed early, with a nice book*
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Date: 2007-03-21 01:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-21 09:12 am (UTC)Thanks. The VPN thing is no big deal. The first time I set it up, the hired technician at work acted all amazed. "You got that to work? I've tried and couldn't do it..." But the instructions are clear enough, you just have to check a lot of details. And of course, the implementation at both ends has to be functional. This time the host was defective and had to be patched.
In networking terms, it's just a kind of encapsulation. I first used that way back in the 80s when we used to connect to the internet over amateur radio links. The IP frames were encapsulated into AX25 frames and sent over a 2 meter transceiver. It let you check your e-mail and stuff via radio, an early equivalent to the stuff cell phones do today.
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Date: 2007-03-21 05:24 pm (UTC)grow up big and strong!
Goodly on Gary for the hose though.
*swings his flooofy tail around as you
make the firewall work and cheerleads
with the volunteers in your library*
"Hoss Hoss! We Want Hoss!"
^_^
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Date: 2007-03-21 05:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-22 06:29 am (UTC)