I got up about 7.50am, had a shower, got dressed, had some breakfast, it was now about 8.15am.

I grabbed my bag I'd chucked a few things in last night, I loaded in my crappy 486 laptop, a couple of network cards for it, and some other bits and pieces, like the manuals for the equipment I don't need.

I rode in there, got in there about 8.35am.

I set the laptop up in the back of my rack, it was easier to access the stuff that way, and the extra screen was handy.

The only other place to put the monitor/keyboard to access the gear is on top of the rack next to mine, which is really uncomfortable to try typing on. I was standing on the chair yesterday so I could type at a reasonable rate. (you try putting your keyboard on top of the monitor and typing something for example).

The guy turned up about 8.50am.

We had a look at what was going on. There were a whole bunch of errors in the radius log file from yesterday while I was mucking around, so it looked like I was almost there.

I checked through the configuration again. We setup new configuration on the radius server so I could have my ras connected at the same time as his.

I plugged the E1 in, and I could see calls coming in, but it wasn't trying to authenticate them anywhere. Bugger.

I went through the config again, I looked in the manual, I couldn't work it out. It should work.

While I was fiddling around trying to get the stuff working, the other guy grabbed the vacuum and started cleaning up all the dead cockroaches around the place. He commented that the spray he uses must be good, it looks like the roaches explode.

About 11.30am, someone called the guy, and he said he had to go.

I decided that I would too. I'll go home, dump the config out, go through it line by line, and load it back in again.

I've had so many settings in this thing, there's probably something sitting in the background screwing it up, and a factory reset will fix it.

He left, I plugged everything back as it was before, locked up and left.

I left the laptop in there, I never use it at home, and it will be handy in there, at least while I try to get this debugged.

I came home.

I dumped the config out, and started going through it, reading through the manual for every command.

I discovered a whole bunch of radius settings I hadn't entered, because my config was based on the one that was in the unit when I got it, and they mustn't have used them.

I wrote a whole new config file, then I remotely factory reset the unit (glad I put that console cable in), changed the password, avoiding running the basic config, and then I loaded my config file in. I had to do it line by line which took a while, but I got there.

"This time for sure!"

I rang one of my mates I'm going to the Radiohead concert with tonight, to find out what the plan was, he said he would call me back in a bit.

I went back into Gosford, changed the E1 over into my ras again.

I couldn't see errors, but I couldn't see it working.

I called my mate, and got him to do a couple of test calls. One of them ended up on the other guys ras, so it tried to authenticate against his radius.. failed.

I assume he got on to my ras after that, because the radius request just failed, didn't go to the other one.

Hmm, this is really annoying now.

I called him back, said it wasn't working, and that I give up for the time being.

I plugged it all back, and I left.

I went over to McDonalds, got some lunch, and then I came home.

I blogged yesterday and today.

My mate called me before I started blogging today, worked out that to be down there for the start at 8pm (which is only the accompanyment, not even billed on the ticket), we'll need to leave about 6.30pm, so we'll leave about 6pm.

It's just now 4pm, so in the next couple of hours I'll have another shower, probably something to eat, might have another look at the config file.