[sudo-discuss] front door computer offline (but working?)

[Jake]

last week I power-cycled the front door beaglebone black and its ethernet 
interface started working again.  Before I did that, the ethernet port was 
not getting a link at all, even when connected to a known good cable.

After the power cycle, its ethernet worked, but since I had not power 
cycled the USB hub and magstripe reader, it was giving errors until i 
rebooted it, and then it worked properly.

well i spoke too soon, it just came back online by itself.

The front door computer has a battery backup so that it can keep working 
even if the rest of the world disappears.  But we won't find out about it 
losing power unless it has a connection to the internet.

presently it goes through at least one hub on the way back to the server 
area, and that hub does not have a battery backup, and apparently gets 
unplugged regularly.

I still think we should have a dedicated CAT5 ethernet run from the front 
door to the server rack, since this is such important infrastructure.

thank you
-jake

On Mon, 19 Sep 2016, Marc Juul wrote:

> Eh it's pretty far and going through a floor and the timeless infinite
> light room. Let's not run that again if we can help it. I'll go check on it
> in a bit. We could do a new run up to the public terminals and just join it
> to the existing wire from the doorputer to get a dedicated run.
>
> -- 
> marc/juul
>
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 8:02 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>
>> the front door computer is still not on the network as far as i can tell.
>>
>> i haven't seen sudobot talk (in irc) about the front door since 9/13
>>
>> i'm assuming people are still able to use their cards to get in?
>>
>> we really need a dedicated CAT5 cable run from the front door computer to
>> the server rack in sudoroom.  No hubs or switches along the way.
>>
>> -jake
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 17 Sep 2016, robb wrote:
>>
>> reseated ethernet connections
>>> the bbb's ethernet port leds blink
>>>
>>> i noticed the power cord is miserably connected to the wall & the ethernet
>>> run takes an unfortunate journey under the rug between sudo to stage door
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> the front door computer does not appear to be on the network.
>>>>
>>>> i'm guessing people are still using their cards to get in, but if there's
>>>> a problem, for example if it gets unplugged from electricity and switches
>>>> to battery backup, we will not be notified and will not know to send
>>>> help.
>>>>
>>>> can someone take a look at the ethernet situation over there and see why
>>>> it's not getting back to the main network?
>>>>
>>>> -jake
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