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The house color is less distressing in full light, or else I am already beginning to be accustomed to it. I do not like it. Nor do I see it as an improvement from the neighborhood standpoint - it still stands out like a sore thumb, only now it is less pretty as it does so. The painters seem to be doing a good job but I find it hard to be pleased with them when they are engaged in the process of turning my house this color. Plus, we will owe them and we have property tax coming due soon as well. This does not thrill me. Granted the board will be paying us back most of it, nonetheless we foot the bill first and the timing is exquisitely annoying.
We've got a new network set up here, a proper one. I just did it myself and I'm already annoyed, as I was afraid I would be. The router I picked up made nice promises about IPSEC pass-through working, and it seems to be at most 3/4 true. I can get onto the work VPN with it, but I can't get to our email server, which was never a problem before. The ip ranges don't overlap - not that that should make a difference, but 'should' or not such things sometimes do. And I'm annoyed because it indicated it was fully configurable but it seems to in fact have no suitable option to change the timeout, just as I feared.
I could return it, and try again with another model or - better still for my bruised and annoyed pride - one from one of their competitors. But I don't really have hope of getting anything any better. This is why I asked Scott to ask his friend (who works on such things) for advice. Which his friend never gave. He just talked big to Scott about coming out and setting everything up, even going so far as to discuss the cost of NIC cards, thus indicating either he is a complete dolt or Scott gave him no real idea of what we wanted. I have no idea which one. I wanted the help of someone local who knows networks, but either the questions/answers were getting lost in translation or the guy was a useless moron - at least as regards this. I should have started this months ago, ignoring his existence, but I kept hoping for some actual help. Now I'm wishing I'd pestered D at work or asked around some more. I hate doing crap like this; I absolutely hate it.
We've got a new network set up here, a proper one. I just did it myself and I'm already annoyed, as I was afraid I would be. The router I picked up made nice promises about IPSEC pass-through working, and it seems to be at most 3/4 true. I can get onto the work VPN with it, but I can't get to our email server, which was never a problem before. The ip ranges don't overlap - not that that should make a difference, but 'should' or not such things sometimes do. And I'm annoyed because it indicated it was fully configurable but it seems to in fact have no suitable option to change the timeout, just as I feared.
I could return it, and try again with another model or - better still for my bruised and annoyed pride - one from one of their competitors. But I don't really have hope of getting anything any better. This is why I asked Scott to ask his friend (who works on such things) for advice. Which his friend never gave. He just talked big to Scott about coming out and setting everything up, even going so far as to discuss the cost of NIC cards, thus indicating either he is a complete dolt or Scott gave him no real idea of what we wanted. I have no idea which one. I wanted the help of someone local who knows networks, but either the questions/answers were getting lost in translation or the guy was a useless moron - at least as regards this. I should have started this months ago, ignoring his existence, but I kept hoping for some actual help. Now I'm wishing I'd pestered D at work or asked around some more. I hate doing crap like this; I absolutely hate it.
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I'd guess that returning your router and trying a different one is probably your best bet; there are enough good solutions that trying to get a mediocre one set up is often more trouble than its worth.
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1) I mush. I need one that I can get to let those damned connections work.
2) I use VPNs for work. This one ostensibly has pass-through, and I can get connected. I can't get my email while connected, but other things work. It makes no sense.
The thing is, I know Linksys has this nasty reputation for not letting you set #1, but it should have been perfect for #2. All the other options at Fry's are ones I am not familiar with at all, and I trust them even less. I had thought from the documentation on this that the VPN would work, though the timing out of my stupid connections might be an issue. I was apparently wrong about the VPN. I need to reconfigure the whole thing to put the hub on the outside and re-try, though. It could just be that IT has hosed our email again. The timeout is going to drive me NUTS but I have NO idea what to get that will take care of THAT.
I just don't have enough knowledge. I tried to get help but the help wasn't there or helpful. :P