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Date:      Mon, 5 Dec 2011 12:12:39 -0800
From:      Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
To:        Ryan Coleman <editor@d3photography.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: dead; need help reconnecting
Message-ID:  <20111205201239.GD9335@thought.org>
In-Reply-To: <1BC0DA59-F5AC-40E3-83D2-F06448CBC109@d3photography.com>
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On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 07:46:44AM -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote:
> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 07:46:44 -0600
> From: Ryan Coleman <editor@d3photography.com>
> Subject: Re: dead; need help reconnecting
> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1251.1)
> 
> 
> On Dec 5, 2011, at 1:06 AM, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 09:56:57PM -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote:
> >> 
> >> Also I suggest a proper UPS and the apcupsd daemon. I use it for all my UPS's in the field. All 10 of them.
> >> 
> > 	I've had a UPS for 22 months.  it has saved my server from
> > 	disaster five or 6 timed....   [[and you thought that the
> > 	power grid here in settle was beyond good??  Bah, humbug.]]
> > 
> > 
> >> Feel free to install it and connect to d3photography.com:3551
> > 
> > 
> > 	how exactly?  no, gimmee a few decades to recover from thin
> > 	trauma !  mumble.
> It's just a remote monitor. It's nice to have.
> 
> Take either the Macbook or Windows machine and install the APCagent client program to monitor. Pretty easy to find. Very low system resource utilization.
> 

	can you send a URL?  I'Ve never heard of this......  [[i
	know thatt i'm a crummy sysadmin]]


> > 
> >> --
> >> Ryan
> >> On Dec 4, 2011, at 7:22 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 08:00:25PM -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote:
> >>>> Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 20:00:25 -0600
> >>>> From: Ryan Coleman <editor@d3photography.com>
> >>>> Subject: Re: dead; need help reconnecting
> >>>> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> >>>> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1251.1)
> >>>> 
> >>>> You need to define Dead, Gary.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Your posts lack... proper detail most of the time.
> >>>> 
> >>>> On Dec 2, 2011, at 6:26 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>>> weds morning at 4 was my last log so it was around  then that my telco modem broke.  a few       hours ago a  tech reset     the
> >>>>> router with all 5 ips.  my bsd server is dead/water.  only my wifes pc and daughters nmacbook work.   i have spent hours under desk trying one thing/time.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> does anyone have any suuggestions what  to try next?     i have only bsd server;  ubuntu desktop.   standalone firewall.  one hub/switgh.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> gary
> >>>>> _______________________________________________
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 	ryan, 
> >>> 
> >>> 	by "dead" i meant that i had 0.0 connection to the net.
> >>> 	long-story-short, it was indeed the telephone company's
> >>> 	modem that blew out.  they were able to get one circuit
> >>> 	working, and they were content with that.  but i was still
> >>> 	dead.  this morning a telco technician [and friend] dropped
> >>> 	by with his tools and after several calls to the office for 
> >>> 	my IP's and other info got me back online.  
> >>> 
> >>> 	I have no idea how their router/modem works; i have no idea 
> >>> 	how they were able to get my wife's PC back, much less my 
> >>> 	entire domain.
> >>> 
> >>> 	(this is further OT, but FWIW, one guy suggested that a
> >>> 	power surge may have broken the modem/router.  30-35 years
> >>> 	ago a =real= modem ran at 1200 baud and was lightening fast.  
> >>> 	obviously, i haven't kept up... .)
> >>> 	
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> -- 
> >>> Gary Kline  kline@thought.org  http://www.thought.org  Public Service Unix
> >>>          Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org
> >>>         The 8.57a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org
> >>>            Twenty-five years of service to the Unix community.
> >>> 
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> > 
> > -- 
> > Gary Kline  kline@thought.org  http://www.thought.org  Public Service Unix
> >           Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org
> >          The 8.57a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org
> >             Twenty-five years of service to the Unix community.
> > 
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> 

-- 
 Gary Kline  kline@thought.org  http://www.thought.org  Public Service Unix
           Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org
          The 8.57a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org
             Twenty-five years of service to the Unix community.




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