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commit cefbfa2d0d270e894aee176c364eb92b8c6b2dfb
Author: epoch <epoch@thebackupbox.net>
Date:   Wed Oct 19 06:23:43 2022 +0000

    outage blog posts

diff --git a/outage-2022-10-12 b/outage-2022-10-12
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+# thebackupbox.net outage on 2022-10-12
+
+A thunderstorm rolled through and seems to have fried JUST the PoE injector
+that my internet connection uses to power an antenna that's outside for the
+point-to-point wireless connection to a tower the ISP owns.
+
+Having woken up at 3pm and not getting my butt in gear until 6pm, I didn't
+really have much choice of physical-store to buy one of these at.
+
+Drove to the larger town where my sister lives and had her drive to the
+stores she thought there might be some at. (I can drive myself, but I'm
+not as familiar with the town as she is, and good excuse to hang-out.)
+
+Checked a Best Buy, Office Depot, a Staples, and a Target, and ofc none
+of them had a PoE injector. Didn't really expect them to but it was worth
+a shot, and maybe they would have some router with PoE support. They did
+not.
+
+Right before giving up my sister asked her nerd-friends if they had something
+and her friend said he had a Ubiquiti router that did PoE and he could unhook
+it if the situation was important enough. I figured it'd be a good idea to
+say it was important enough. I don't need to flake from work if I don't *HAVE*
+to. So, we got there and he was in the middle of disconnecting all of the
+things from this router. ._. It was *THE* router for his server rack,
+although he had a handful of smaller routers to replace it with, I kind of
+felt bad that he had to take it all apart.
+
+He had said if it didn't work by just plugging the things into the
+unconfigured ports to just reset the router. I asked if the config had been
+saved to a computer so it could be restored, and he said it had been.
+Good deal.
+
+While driving the router home with it buckled into the front seat,
+I was worried that the antenna would also be fried and I'd just have to
+call my ISP anyway and the whole thing was a waste of time.
+
+Got back and plugged it in.
+
+Plugged the Cisco router I have doing the PPPoE into one port.
+Plugged the antenna's network cable into another.
+
+The antenna's port didn't light up at all.
+
+I was hoping it was because it needed passive PoE manually set on the port.
+I connected the hardware terminal I have to the Ubiquiti's console port,
+and got a bunch of garbledy goop. I assumed it was the wrong settings for
+the serial connection and poked around at those kind of randomly until I
+found one that worked.
+
+Tried to login, but the creds weren't the default, so I did a reset on
+the router and logged in with the default creds.
+
+I was presented with a root shell on a linux system. I guess these routers
+use some stuff on top of Linux. After looking up how to enable the PoE
+for a port, I tried the instructions and got some errors because
+the instructions were for some command-line interface that wasn't a plain
+shell. I checked the listening ports with netstat and saw port 23 was open,
+so I telnetted to it from that shell and got an (Cisco) IOS-looking CLI.
+
+Entered the commands to enable PoE for the port the antenna was plugged
+in to.
+
+```the commands
+enabled
+configure
+interface 0/1
+  poe opmode passive24v
+  exit
+
+exit
+copy running-config startup-config
+```
+
+That last command didn't work, but I found that ubiquiti had a command
+similar to the IOS command 'write' which was used to store the config.
+
+While I was looking up how to brige ports to each other, I noticed I
+got some notifications on my computer saying internet was working.
+
+I kind of expected I was gonna have to do more, but this works better.
+
+Instead of being up until 3am trying to get something working,
+I can write a blog post about it and get to bed at a sane time.
+
+Before I could write a blog post I had to update my DNS stuff
+so people could get back on IRC and the website and stuff.
+
+Anyway. G'night.
diff --git a/outage-2022-10-14--18 b/outage-2022-10-14--18
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+# yet another because I'm dumb and subborn
+
+Parts showed up Friday so I reset the router I borrowed, and dropped it off.
+
+Picked up the parts, and got home and they did not work because they are
+"802.3af" type PoE and not "passive 24v" PoE.
+
+welp.
+
+shit.
+
+looked closer at the PoE stuff in my own router to see if I could rig something up.
+
+It appears the PoE port wasn't to allow the router to power other devices, it was
+a port to power the router over PoE.
+
+welp.
+
+shit 2.
+
+To get my router to do PoE I'll have to find an expansion card that fits it.
+I'm not that interested in that right now.
+
+I looked on amazon for the exact part I needed and it said it'd ship in a couple days.
+
+Sent it to my mom so she could use her Amazon Prime to order it or whatever.
+
+Then got informed that the part would actually be showing up a couple days after it
+originally said it'd ship.
+
+welp.
+
+shit 3.
+
+It is now Tuesday at 1am and the part /should/ be showing up at the post office in
+7 hours. Hopefully. Then I can go pick it up and plug it in here.
+
+[update at Tue 4:40pm]
+
+The part works, but the previous one was 1 amp and the current one is 0.75 amps.
+So, it might burn out. Hopefully it lasts at least long enough to get the new ISP
+hooked in to my network.

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