Ninja'd, router. Ninja'd.

Over the past few days, various attempts on my part to get the router to cooperate have spiraled out of control and this morning I finally managed to lock myself out of even the failsafe mode. The router was still functioning but it just wouldn't let me connect in any way. It was time for Kershaw.

About five minutes after he got his hands on it, he guessed that it was at least still asking for an IP on the WAN (read: internet) port, and logically set up a DHCP server to give it one. This then gave him an entry point where he discovered that essentially everything in memory was completely whacked. The thing wasn't even bringing up the LAN interfaces at all, and seemed to have forgotten which interfaces were even supposed to be LAN. A little poking around and some looking up of things and everything seemed fine. I brought it home (this was done at Sci-Fi night at Sean's) and everything is shiny. So go Mike.

My next task (I should be able to do this one without too much pain) is to configure the dnsmasq setup on the router so that the various machines that will connect to it regularly (my stuff, Nina's comp, Matt and Mike's respective laptops) will actually get static IPs and resolvable hostnames. This would make transferring things between them much simpler, and also allow for port forwarding, which would be nice. There is of course the danger of making it so that no one can get an IP but that's what failsafe mode is for. And of course there's always Mike...