[136688] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Wilkins)
Thu Feb 3 23:47:41 2011
From: Ryan Wilkins <ryan@deadfrog.net>
In-Reply-To: <5817196.4787.1296792606407.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 22:46:47 -0600
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 3, 2011, at 10:10 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ---- Original Message -----
>> What do you do when you get home to put it back on the air -- let's
>> say email as a base service, since it is -- do you have the gear =
laying around,
>> and how long would it take?
>=20
> Focus on this part, BTW, folks; let's ignore the politics behind the
> shutdown. :-)
>=20
So if I get what you're saying, I could have something operational from =
scratch in a few hours. I've got a variety of Cisco routers and =
switches, Linux and Mac OS X boxes in various shapes and sizes, and a =
five CPE + one AP 5 GHz Mikrotik RouterOS-based radio system, 802.11b/g =
wireless AP, 800' of Cat 5e cable, connectors, and crimpers. The =
radios, if well placed, could allow me to connect up several strategic =
locations, or perhaps use them to connect to other sources of Internet =
access, if available. If it really came down to it, I could probably =
gather enough satellite communications gear from the office to allow me =
to stand up satellite Internet to someone. Of course, the trick would =
be to talk to that "someone" to coordinate connectivity over the =
satellite which may be hard to do given the communications outage you =
described. I wouldn't be so worried about transmitting to the =
satellite, in this case I'd just transmit without authorization, but =
someone needs to be receiving my transmission and vice versa for this to =
be useful. At a minimum, I could enable communications between my =
neighbors.
Regards,
Ryan Wilkins
