Re: High Cost Of Doing Business

Posted by Mark - IN. on July 22, 2008 at 22:08:48 from (64.12.117.74):

In Reply to: High Cost Of Doing Business posted by Allan In NE on July 22, 2008 at 06:28:46:

That almost looks like an RS232 connector pinned out. I missed it, what is it? I worked last night and tonight rebuilding a PC that works as a telephone for a 911 PSAP. There, everything on their LAN or Domain is VOIP and uses to NICs teamed at 100 Meg each for voice and data. And if I could just figure out why another board that processes much of it including ANI and ALI isn't working, preventing the software from initializing and taking off when all of the drivers are loaded correctly, and I know and proved its not hardware, I'd be a happier guy. Good Lord, I've built, formated, rebuilt that thing so many times, my head's going to explode. Tried another hard drive from another position just to prove the hardware good, it worked. Then I made the mistake of cloning a drive, renaming the position for the domain, changing IP addresses, adjusting INI files and you name it, so it'd work, and it did until I fired the one up that I cloned it from and they became the same 911 position at the same time because something's imbedded somewhere in one of the million INI files that's pointing back the same name to the DNS DHCP server that said "OK, both of you guys are the same guy, so here's the same IP address on the same domain. That's not a good thing to happen at a 911 PSAP. Phones just aint phones anymore and haven't been for years. Good Lord, tomorrow's another day, and they're only down one position out of 12 tonight.

Wanna hear about the time I tested once piece of equipment in one PSAP but used it in another PSAP about 30 miles away in a whole other town? Countywide each individual LAN joined as a WAN with wide open routers...until I did that. That sure got fixed fast. Turns out these servers remember MAC addresses, so after testing that piece in one PSAP, then driving like 30 miles away in a whole different town, plugging it in and turning it up...it went out on the WAN and found mama (the server) that recognized its MAC address and became the pipe that both towns quickly began getting each others 911 calls over. Thats not a very good thing to have happen either. No one got hurt, no one died, and I'll never do that again...and now the local routers block IP schemes that don't belong locally. Cripes, I'm just a phone guy according to the IRS and my daytime boss.

Mark

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