[THIN] Fun with Networking
- From: "Greg Reese" <GReese@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 23:08:27 -0400
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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