I broke it

Busy day today, actually. First I was all slothful and slept in. Not good. I did receive a bunch of calls while I was sleeping though, so from like 0930 on it wasn’t exactly continuous sleep.

Today I had a guy installing a T1 tell me I was to use PPPoE encoding on it. I quote from an e-mail (the answers are grafted on to the end of my questions; I’ve inserted some whitespace there to make them more readable and hidden IPs):

- How many channels should we be using on the T1?  10
- At which channel does the allocation begin?  (This is probably
  channel 1.)  15 -24
- What is our encapsulation type?  pppoe
- If Frame Relay, what is our DLCI?  DLCI 16 => VC 121 VP 1
- Is WAN side numbered or unnumbered?  yes
- If WAN side is numbered, what is our WAN side IP? x.x.x.110
255.255.255.252
- What is our default gateway's IP?  x.x.x.109
- What are our LAN side IPs, if any?  x.x.x.112-115 same subnet

Not the easiest thing to decipher. Finally someone relayed to me, through the customer, that the encapsulation was to be “IETF”. I took this to mean Frame Relay, and set it up accordingly. Guess what? It no worky tonight. On top of that, I managed to kill (at least) the network on the Linux router this was being set up on. Hopefully just a simple reboot tomorrow morning will repair it.

Turned up the VPN in Charlotte (as opposed to Columbia a couple weeks ago) tonight. All but one site is up. The lingering site isn’t on-line because we forgot to bring over a patch cable long enough to hook up the Ethernet earlier in the week when we dropped the equipment over, and never rectified it. So I’m getting a call on that early tomorrow too.

Going to have a busy day tomorrow. Time for bed.