Last night after hours, my friend and I set to work reconfiguring our office network. Its IP scheme had to be changed to a non standard private IP range in order to make it easier to integrate our backup internet connection as well as to make it easier to connect our remote offices via VPN.
After setting the new IP and DHCP range in the router we went to all of the servers and static resources and manually set their new IPs. My concern was that there would be a problem with the printers, as all of the desktop machines would have to be updated to reflect the new print server IPs.
Thankfully it was only a minor fix and once I had the routine down the update on each desktop went quickly. All in all in less than two hours the job was done and I sat back to watch the router blink happily in its new configuration.
As of this morning there have been no fires due to our work on the network the previous evening. This to me is the most gratifying part of my work. The users only know that their email and internet work and have no idea that the network had undergone a major reconfiguration and upgrade. Ninja!
3 comments:
Ok, I have to go there.
SBD! You heard it, SBD!
Now, we are both grown men, why is that still funny to me? Seriously!!!!
I am both frustrated by the childishness, and over come with fits of giddy laughter.
hrmm...
This post was spoken like a true network admin. you make it work, and no one knows you were there.
now...had you caused a fire to 12, they would have known. but it's more fun to be the networking ninja, isn't it?
lol. Somehow I actually understood this.
Go go Ninja! haha
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