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I’m finishing this, and going to sleep…

The day began with a paunch soup at “Divaka”, to get a bit better – it helped, but not a lot, because it was hot and spicy, and the weather wasn’t cold enough… Good thing the server room has AC.

Then followed some problem-solving. The first thing was that freebsd’s stack was behaving differently from the linux one, and this created a problem with the ADSL bridge, because it gives you an IP over DHCP, and the same one as a default gateway. In this situation linux starts sending everything directly through the interface, the bridge does proxyarp, and it works. FreeBSD, OTOH, routes that IP through the loopback, and fscked up the situation. In the end we had to write the configuration statically… It’s a problem of the damn bridge to use such a configuration…

The other thing was the config of the UPS to talk to the machines – it took some time, and I’ll have to explain to some more of them to ti shut down when needed, but I was able to tell the UPS over the serial port to shut down, and it was quite a view… But something more fun was to see it start again – the fuse couldn’t hold it, and snapped :)

There is some problem with the database, drbd and heartbeat, which I’ll fight with tomorrow, because I saw it sometime after the test of the UPS, and I wasn’t able to thing good enough.

The night finished with Chervarium in “Krivoto” (behind the Rectorate), to get something to eat and to drink a beer or two, we haven’t been there for a long time.

(And this was written while Velin was snoring. How can he sleep in this noise, I don’t know.)

(note – he woke up, and swore).

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