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.
