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Saturday, Jul 30, 2005
D'oh
I had SBC DSL installed at D's house in Boulder Creek some time ago. Well, a month ago.
While I was struggling to sort out the right configuration of the cable modem and my router, I could only hook up one computer at a time, with the 25' ethernet cable I usually carry along with my notebook. Way low tech.
I had trouble hooking up the supplied Speedstream 5100b modem to the FWG114P firewall/router/wifi access point I had purchased previously. There are options for how to deal with this. I could leave the modem in NAT, and run NAT on the router for a double NAT situation. Or I could modify the DSL modem configuration to put it into bridge mode, and run PPPoE on the router. This would put me in "unsupported land" with my ISP.
Eventually I figured out that I was being really dumb about configuring the double NAT. I wasn't thinking clearly about the WAN side of the router and the LAN side of the router being distinct address spaces. (Hints picked up from this thread.)
The modem sets itself up with an address of 192.168.0.1, and uses DHCP to configure the connected device with an address of 192.168.1.64. And the subnet mask is 255.255.0.0. Finally I settled upon the LAN side of the router being set to 192.168.2.1 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0, with DHCP to configure the attached computers.
The mistake had been setting the subnet mask on the LAN to 255.255.0.0.
Ricky Doesn't Understand Ecomonics Either
I caught a bit of Senator Manondog (R-Pennirginia) on the Laura Ingraham show last night. He blamed government taxation for the fact that women are in the workplace rather than in the home as they were in the fifties. Just off the top of my head I can think of a few other reasons why there are so many two-income households.
- In the 1950's, the US was the world's dominant industrial power. We'd have to bomb Europe, Japan and China to get back to that economic Shangri-La. Since we're not ready to do that (just yet), we'll have to deal with the fact that living well is harder these days.
- Outsourcing and the loss of stable, good paying union jobs makes it harder for some people to reach the middle class. One simply could not support a family of four on a minimum-wage "service" job in many parts of the country.
- People's expectations for material goods have shifted radically. Houses are bigger. Cars are more sophisticated. People need a separate TV for each family member. Etc., etc. All this material crap requires more income.
- Women folk have choices. They don't have to be barefoot and pregnant. They can be HR managers, investment bankers, accountants, engineers, etc.
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