[THIN] Re: Fun with Networking

  • From: "Damian Hupfeld" <damian.hupfeld@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:13:04 +1000

I think that your first priority should be to find the widows that were
blown out!

I am glad to hear that all your residents are ok and that you are getting
back on track!
 

-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Greg Reese
Sent: Monday, 16 August 2004 1:08 PM
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Fun with Networking

My company runs residential communities for the elderly and nursing homes in
Florida.  One of them is in Port Charlotte which took a direct shot from
hurricane Charley on Friday.

Fortunately, all our buildings there are made out of poured concrete and can
take just about anything a hurricane can dish out.  But we did have some
roof problems, blown out widows, and no power or water.  We don't expect to
have any of this back anytime soon either.  Our employees are also dealing
with their own disasters.  Amazingly, there entire are has no phone
services, no cell services, but our AT&T frame relay is up and running just
fine and never went down.  The terminals we have running on auxiliary power
are running and connecting just fine.

We are moving all of our residents to a couple nice hotels in Tampa (Harbor
Island for those who know Tampa) while we straighten out our location in
Port Charlotte and make it livable again.

This gets fun because I have to set up remote offices at the hotels for
operations and activities.  I have a Watchguard firebox at out main office
and can easily make a VPN connection with another Watchguard device at the
hotel.  From there, terminals can connect back to my metaframe farm with no
trouble.

The trick is that the connection available to me is wireless. I am trying to
find a device (quick) that will bridge the wireless connection available at
the hotel to my Watchguard as the external connection.  Since we started
this on a Sunday, I have not yet had a chance to ask the IT staff at the
hotel for a wired connection.  I am organizing on a worst case scenario and
just wanted to get some ideas from everyone.

all ideas greatly appreciated!

Greg
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