Monday, September 05, 2005

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Man has it been crazy. I've been doing consulting like every other night. I'm still at a loss as to what to do. I can charge for all my hours, I feel bad that I've been unable to crack their network configuration yet. The company I'm doing this for has an odd set up - ISDN router => Wireless Router => switch => remaining office computers and Win2k3 server. We're trying to set up VPN, and the signal isn't getting through the wireless router. It's not even fowarding through the ISDN router either. Two major holes in being able to get VPN up and running.

I'm going to get ahold of the company who does the ISDN and get them to configure the port, but I have to investigate more as to what ports it needs. I've read 10, 500, and 4700(?) and there was also talk of a 1750 inbetween. You'd think it would be easy enough, but forwarding all those ports from the router to the server did not result in a connection when we used the address of the router.

It's a crazy linksys that wants IPSEC and VPN to go through it, it has usernames set up, and everything you need to establish a direct link from the router to the server via IPSEC -- but even my attempts to configure it's built in VPN have not been sucessfull. I'm always wary of "features", just let me forward the damn ports!

It's somewhat frustrating, but the big question is how much do I charge. A friend got me in there, and it's not a huge company. I feel badly getting paid to wrestle with their network and not getting anything done. I have put in at least 12 hours so far, I think I'll just call it 8, or 6... I don't know. I so need the money, and technically am due all the hours I worked. I'm not a professional at this stuff yet, though -- but even at my full hourly rate for all the time I put in, I'm still cheaper then the professionals who charge upwards of $300/hour.

What's one to do?
posted @ 08:09

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