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Junk. (Updated)
Well, it could be worse, but the timing is less than ideal.
The power supply in our firewall machine is flaking out - it's turned itself off outright, and now it power-cycles at random. If you can read this, it's obviously up.
Or, I've managed to put a temporary replacement machine in its place. Seeing as I have at least three machines I can drop in there right now and expect to work, I might as well go do that.
Of course it has to wait until late on a Sunday night when I really should be reaching for the bedsheets and not the tool box.
updated Going on 11:20pm now and I'm building a replacement box. After watching kerochan (the "production" firewall) reboot itself twice more, it seems like a good idea.
What really stinks here is that kerochan is also what I use for network boots, and so I have to install the new box from CD. The SparcStation 5 I've picked has an unbelievably slow CDROM drive. Next time I think the tape drive might actually be quicker.
At least this SS5, having been provided initially by a Very Big Telco, is of the 110 MHz variety with two disks and 64MB RAM, so it's pretty butch, and somehow I have a nice quad-port NIC for it too. So it ought to be entirely adequate until I replace the power supply in kerochan and rebuild it.
11:45pm: The install marches on once more, after getting 1/3 of the way through to discover the CDROM drive is failing to read. So now it's crunching away with an HTTP install, and the bottle-neck is the local disk.
Great... just heard the fans in kerochan spin down and stay off. This isn't going to finish a moment too soon.
