Well, I woke up at 5 A.M. today – this tends to happen as the days get longer, I wake up when it gets light (so you can imagine what winter is like for me). Decided I was tired of the Dell server humming away in my room, and that it was time to move it into its new home – the closet at the top of the stairs. I’d already had three double sockets installed, and a run of 2 pair phone wire, so all I needed to do was wire up the phone connection (for the DSL).

15 minutes later, the phone cabling was wired in, and I was ready to move the server. 10 minutes later, server, UPS, router and switch were all installed in the closet (I moved the tool kits etc out last night).

Along the way, I worked out why my VoIP is being a bit weird – I need to build the second server tonight, and migrate my Asterisk configuration over. I’ll then have a dedicated VoIP server (which I know I’ve mentioned before). Oh yes, why it’s weird: 1 network card, two IPs, two NAT entries, 1 default route. Suffice to say things got a bit confused.

I need to get a special PCI card for the VoIP server, and I’ll be able to run my landline into it as well (though I’ll keep a spur for power-out reasons), and then multiplex VoIP and landline into one phone. Who needs a two-line phone? (Not that you can get a DECT two-line phone for cheap anyway.)

Perhaps I’ll spend part of tonight working out why my Zyxel has decided to stop routing port 587 and 143 in to my server – not being able to use my mail client remotely is annoying.