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July 14, 2010
Nightmare on Blue Jay
Well, that was fun. Not. I decided to convert my home network over to the new Cisco Systems Catalyst 2900 XL switches, but I got a little confused in the process. What should have taken me about an hour ended up taking about 6 hours.
Partly the problem was that I wasn't clear where the cable from the modem connected into the Linksys BEFW1154 wireless router. The cable was labeled "Uplink", so I hooked it into the "Uplink" port on the back of the router, but it needed to go into the "WAN" port instead. Probably I just didn't pay close enough attention when I tore it all apart. Also, the "Uplink" port is shared with "Port 4", so if you use the "Uplink" port, you can't use Port 4, and vice-versa.
For several hours, I was completely down. As in...no email...no internet access...my web site was down...and my VOIP Vonage "Join the Revolution" phone was down. So, that kinda sucked. Not how I wanted to spend the day.
Eventually got it all sorted out, of course. But the day was a complete waste and I didn't get done hardly any of the things I wanted to.
Posted by Rob Kiser on July 14, 2010 at 6:25 PM
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