A waste of bits and bandwidth

This is more so I don’t forget what I did but what the hell; someone might find it useful.

Since I picked up a wireless [tag]router[/tag], my original router has been sitting in a box wasting space. The first time I tried to incorporate it into my network, I buggered everything up. This is how the old router ended up in said box.

However, I really needed a switch (a hub would have worked too) but I’m getting tired of all these gadgets littering my tiny apartment. All these wonderful $400 toys that you’d be hard pressed to give away a year on.

So, here are the steps to reproduce what I did and make use of that old router. FYI, the routers are a pair from [tag]Linksys[/tag]: a [tag]WRT54G[/tag] running [tag]DD-WRT[/tag] and an old school [tag]BEFSR41[/tag] with the original firmware.

The WRT54G is 192.168.1 and connects directly to the modem while the BEFSR41 is 192.168.2 and sits downstream providing additional ports.

Setup

• Login to the BEFSR41 and set the IP to 192.168.1.2/
• disable DHCP
• set as a router, not a gateway

Cables

• Modem feeds into the WAN port on the WRT54G as normal
• Port 1 out from the WRT54G and into Port 1 on the BEFSR41 not the WAN. This was one of the mistakes I made in my previous attempt
• Connect xBox and MythTv to the BEFSR41 as normal

I cobbled this together from a number of sources until my tests showed that everything was working the way I expected it to. Your mileage my vary…

Japanese Human Art – Why Is My Girlfriend Mad?

From noob.us

[tag]TUAW[/tag] is reporting that [tag]Vancouver[/tag] might finally be getting an [tag]Apple Store[/tag]. This isn’t the first time they’ve spread rumours and gotten me all excited. The last location they claimed was for the Apple Store is a shiny Shoppers Drug Mart. It’s impressive and all but they don’t have Macs.

Still an official store would be cool I guess. I mean Toronto has three… Of course I visited both Apple stores in Tokyo and was left pretty unimpressed. “This is sorta like a store that only sells Apple stuff. So where is His Steveness?” I really was expecting mecca or failing that, a rack in the store with, oh I don’t know, how about a freakin’ t-shirt?

Touch wood that my trusty [tag]PowerBook[/tag] won’t need any more repairs but if it should, maybe I get a bit faster service than Macstation provided. “Hey, I have [tag]AppleCare[/tag]!”

Still, I’d be there on opening day so I could finally get one of their damn t-shirts. “Um, Spanky? I’ll be needing a day off. At some point. I don’t know when but pencil me in as tenative…

Happy Mothers Day Mom!

Not everyone has a blogger geek for a Mom but I do.

omoni salanghae (Mom I love you)

Ugh, last nights class sucked. I didn’t study nearly enough last week and felt out of it. It was as if it was my first class or something. Much fun. Not. Maybe now that my beloved [tag]Canucks[/tag] are out of the playoffs, I won’t have the distraction of hockey.

In other news which partially explains why I wasn’t studying, the hard drive in my PC is near dead. “Why aren’t my shows being recorded? Dammit!” As much as I wanted to blame [tag]Windows[/tag], it is indeed hardware. I put in a spare drive, installed [tag]Ubuntu[/tag] and it’s working like a charm.

So Spanky showed up for work today wearing a pair of [tag]Crocs[/tag]… He’d been threatening to do so for some time and today was that day. I questioned him about it and tried to introduce a ridicule storm but it didn’t really take off which is odd given the sarcasm level in the dev pit. I still fondly recall Alex showing up in a pair of Capri pants and being abused in the worst possible manner. That was two years ago and we’ve haven’t seen those pants since.

Well, I need to hit the books but not before I wish The Shnewt’s a belated happy anniversary. Four years on and Biff is still alive. Good for you dude.

Hmmm, I just found a bottle of salad dressing which expired in April of 2006. That means it was 3 months out of date when I moved here. Well, carry on…