Well, I’m certainly glad to see that Unix isn’t actually reliable these days
I finished up my project to move the home network over to the glowy server tonight, but since this project involved computers it had one last bit of compu-fuck-you before it finally gave up and started working.
Who would think that a little Linux-based wireless switch would need to be rebooted three times before it finally realized that part of being an ethernet switch meant that the thing had to, well, be an ethernet switch.
Part of the fun came out of dealing with goddamn isc dhcpd, but that was pretty minor stuff compared to watching the switch cheerfully blackhole everything up until the point where I pulled the Big Red Switch (at which point the changes I had previously save *magically* started to work.)
I expect that the disks will delaminate sometime in the next week, just to round out this festival of computer-generated malice.