I have an inexpensive home network setup that allows me to use a Linksys BEFVP41 to access my office network, without having to ditch my Linux firewall that I’ve become fond of, and without giving up fast access to my internal network.
2/26/2002
2/24/2002
Bandwidth Measurement
I just learned about 95th percentile bandwidth measurement. Since I’m not hidden behind your typical ISP or telco service any more, I’m going to start seeing some of the real effects of providing bandwidth, and what it takes to make it economically feasible. Old hat for ISPs, I know, but I’ve paid flat rate ISP fees for so long, I’ve never seen anything else. MRTG is making this very nice to keep an eye on.
About Jim Moy
I’m a software engineer and piano technician in Fort Collins, Colorado. I’ve had a nomadic existence in the software industry which you might be able to tell from my resume.
My old home page at http://www.verinet.com/~jbm and http://www.frii.com/~jbm (after Front Range Internet bought Verinet) had some stuff that stayed relatively static, mostly related to some old BeOS development I did. I’m pulling that stuff into an entry linked from the main page to let Movable Type archive it.
My brother Tom has a web page.
My Dad likes to keep a running journal of the books he’s read. Not as literary commentary, but as reminders to himself! Which may sound funny, but you know, I couldn’t tell you the plot of half the books sitting on my bookshelf…
I paddle a kayak around for exercise, originally because my knees are shot, but it’s actually much more pleasant than the jogging/biking I was doing before. But during 2009, I took up barefoot running, and can now run even with my messed up knees!
I play classical music on my restored Chickering & Sons grand piano. I also poke about on my Chapman Stick. Learning has gone slowly. It’s an interesting instrument, mine’s a 10-String XG, tuned Deep Baritone Melody because I love the low range overlapped with the left hand, and the ACTV-2 goes down real smooth.
Dan Yee “doing the bowl” at one of his birthday parties.
Chris Brooks wearing a tie. Honest.
My Father in law is a retired Professor of Geology at the University of Florida.
Send me email at web@jimmoy.com
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2/23/2002
Old BeOS Links
My BeOS web site that used to live at http://www.frii.com/~jbm are archived for posterity, and can be reached under the Links section of the home page. I see now Be is an empty, litigating body now, not much left. Guess we wait and see what Palm does with the technology now.
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Linksys VPN and Win2k
I’ve spent a fair number of hours getting Win2k working with the Linksys BEFVP41, but after all that I’ve found it isn’t a workable solution.
There’s a good Microsoft page on setting up IPSec on Win2k, but the problem comes about a third of the way down in the page where you have to ping the destination LAN, wait to see it fail with Negotiating IP Security messages, and then keep trying until the negotiation completes. This just doesn’t work, and I didn’t realize it until I had this whole thing working and saw how disruptive it was to my work flow and train of thought. If, for whatever reason, my connection goes away and comes back, the two ends don’t automatically come back up and establish the VPN tunnel, so I have to go ping it to bring it back up.
There has also been some flakiness that hasn’t been reported by my co-worker who has been using a second BEFVP41 unit at home to talk to the one at the office, so I’ve moved to that kind of setup (possible, because the Linksys boxes are so cheap) and that configuration will be the subject of another entry.
2/18/2002
First Entry
Jimmoy.com switches to Movable Type. Should make it easier to update things. This is also now hosted internally!