What About Us

So, with the router for tomorrow flashed, programmed, and ready to, that's just about 30 hours this week.
Wonder what my chances of taking Thursday and Friday off are. Actually, I don't wonder, I know what they are - still, it's fun to imagine.

So, that VRRP thing I mentioned, the simulation went pretty well.
The fun part was when the two routers backing each-other up lost sight of one-another from their LAN.
This would happen because in reality, the two routers are not connected to the same 'physical' L2 segment. There's a half-dozen Point-to-point links bridging the two together (Awesomeness!).
Each would become master of the other's subnets. Not a big deal, except now there's two identical gateways and subnets in duplicate locations.
That threw me for a bit of a loop until I discovered the easy way out by tweaking a few OSPF interface costs.
Admittedly, it feels like a total hack and it's still not perfect, but at least it prevents the nasty stuff like routing loops to non-existent hosts on the LAN among other things.

Also, new favourite song of the month. I may have to throw some Audiosurf at this one on the TV later... then again, work starts at 06:30 tomorrow, so maybe tomorrow.

Incidentally, if you buy the album off iTunes, it's only 11.99 and comes with 28 songs 80% of which are awesome *and* the music video.
Damn you iTunes, damn you.