Re: PS3 Kills Wireless Laptop Connection

"Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@xxxxxxxxxxx> hath wroth:


Heh, just ran into that with my networkable thermostat.

I didn't know anyone had such a thing. Might be useful for my
mountaintop sites. Got a link?

Sure, proliphix.com. I've got this an NT20e.
http://www.proliphix.com/NT-Basic.aspx

Thanks. However at $360/ea, I don't see one in my future.
<http://www.smarthome.com/3053t.html>

There's even a script
to pull the data into an RRDtool monitoring database.

No SNMP. So do they just scrape data off the web page?

Unless you have more than one route to the internet

Yes and I have routing set up for it. I don't really "need" anything to be
smart enough to deal with multiple routes. I've found some devices really
don't like being handed multiple gateways from an Windows DHCP server (the
thermostat being one). But this isn't a problem as those devices each get
their own DHCP lease reservation set up; which is explicitly configured for
just one gateway. Yes, you're right, most SOHO routers do not have this
flexibility and most situations wouldn't require it.

Well, there's another common setup that some DHCP clients find
difficult. I frequently have LAN devices that I do NOT want their
traffic to appear on the internet. Network printers that call home
regularly is the most common example. So, I set the default gateway
to either blank or to the network printers own IP address. No problem
with a static IP setup, but with DHCP, it requires that the client
allows a static gateway IP, but a dynamic DHCP assigned IP and
netmask. Batting average is about 50% on print servers and network
printers. For those that won't, I have to setup a filter rule in the
router or use a static IP address. Not a big problem, but it bugs me.

Whatcha doing?

Balancing between some inbound services using a static DSL connection and
the dynamic IP FIOS connection.

Load balancing between two radically different speed network
connections is always fun. You could cheat and use a load balancing
router such as:
<http://www.edimax.com/en/produce_list.php?pl1_id=3&pl2_id=>

With Windoze, there's no internal load balancing with multiple default
gateways. It looks at the router metric, picks the cheapest, and
sends everything via that route. If you want to change gateway, you
have to tweak the route metric. I don't think any commodity network
appliance firmware can do even that and is limited to one gateway.

Thanks much.


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