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The internet was down again when I came in this morning. I power cycled the router and left it for longer than I did yesterday and everything came back to normal. Maybe it was the router that was the problem the other day as well, but I just didn't leave it for long enough before I power cycled the network switch.
We should probably swap this router out to see if the unit itself is causing the problem. Does anyone know if we have a spare or a preffered vendor? If we don't have a spare I'll order an identical linksys unit from somewhere.
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It's the router, i've tested that already. We don't know what causes it but Larry said that this might happen if we are running a lot of traffic across it. I don't know if this is true but anyway the plan is to use fb1 as the router instead and also as our internal DHCP and DNS server so that we don't have to give fixed IP addresses and names to computers anymore. Instead we give them a fixed address by knowing their hardware MAC addresses. This is much easier to handle because you only have one config file which contains the entire network setup and if you wanna change something you only have to change that file and not login in all individual computers to make changes. This makes sense as we have almost 30 devices by now...
The original plan was that Mott will do it but i think now it's on me. I already have the additional network cards we have to install but so far i didn't have the time to shut down everything (we have to shutdown really EVERYTHING as fb1 is used a the global source for all tools incl. the RT code and stuff) and start working on that. We might wanna do that early September as i gonna leave Tue morning to LHO and there are some guys which wanna install sprinklers in the PSL lab until then.... |