[136996] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josh Smith)
Mon Feb 7 16:53:43 2011
In-Reply-To: <9D145C3C-2D3A-4D73-997C-6346B6EF402A@deadfrog.net>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 16:53:00 -0500
From: Josh Smith <juicewvu@gmail.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Ryan Wilkins <ryan@deadfrog.net> wrote:
>
> 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?
>>
>> Focus on this part, BTW, folks; let's ignore the politics behind the
>> shutdown. =C2=A0:-)
>>
>
> So if I get what you're saying, I could have something operational from s=
cratch in a few hours. =C2=A0I've got a variety of Cisco routers and switch=
es, 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, 8=
00' of Cat 5e cable, connectors, and crimpers. =C2=A0The radios, if well pl=
aced, could allow me to connect up several strategic locations, or perhaps =
use them to connect to other sources of Internet access, if available. =C2=
=A0If it really came down to it, I could probably gather enough satellite c=
ommunications gear from the office to allow me to stand up satellite Intern=
et to someone. =C2=A0Of course, the trick would be to talk to that "someone=
" to coordinate connectivity over the satellite which may be hard to do giv=
en the communications outage you described. =C2=A0I 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. =C2=A0At a minimum, I could enable communicati=
ons between my neighbors.
>
> Regards,
> Ryan Wilkins
>
I agree that setting up "local" connectivity between the folks in my
neighborhood wouldn't be too much of a challenge. Getting anything
much beyond that up and running would be a stretch.
--=20
Josh Smith
KD8HRX
email/jabber:=C2=A0 juicewvu@gmail.com
phone:=C2=A0 304.237.9369(c)
