Death of a ‘Net Link
The wireless bridge was still out when I got to work yesterday morning. That meant that the outside world, in the form of email and internet, still did not exist. To top it off, road construction crews ripped out a huge bundle of wires cutting off phone service to something like a few square miles. So there were no phones either. Well, at least things would be quiet.
Qwest fixed our phones sometime around 3:00 pm and tech services walked in about 4:15 or so with our half of the new bridge. After banging on it for a few minutes - perhaps half an hour - he walked back out with the device in hand. Well, it’ll be another day before it’s all sorted out. Around 6:15 I was surprised to see the head of our tech services department walk in with the transceiver unit and plug it in. Surprised because I figured we wouldn’t see anything until the following day, their schedules over there are pretty much 8-4 or something along those lines. But here he was plugging in the unit, logging in and making configuration changes. He chatted on the phone with the tech from earlier who was working on the other end of the bridge. After about 20 minutes or so it seemed we were back online. They had decided to leave our machines on the static IPs assigned on Thursday. I also learned that our machine wasn’t a backup domain controller or whatever it’s called due to the wireless bridge. I guess it was decided that would be too much data to periodically transfer to have our machine as a backup. The offices are supposed to move to a different building so we’ll get a primary controller at that point along with a rumored T1. 
