Now for something that fee blogging tools can fix. I was just trying to watch a little TV while catching up on the significant stories of the day, and I noticed I was away in IM. Well, I moved the mouse, which brought me back online, but it should have popped up an alert that I was back, as I added myself to MSN and set an alert so I would know when I went offline in tough times. Well, no such alert came. So I opened up Trillian, and noticed all of my clients except Yahoo were offline. Very odd. I glanced over at my modem, and the lights weren't showing an error, still aren't, but they weren't overflowing with packets either. No error, not bing bombed offline like Denny and John from work, or at least my modem doesn't show it. Very, truly, odd.
So I turned off my video tape I was watching, and the VCR is still getting a signal, which shows that the service was not disconnected. A quick switch to Digital shows it is still working quite well. Grr. So, I have no idea what the hell is wrong here, but it is truly frustrating. Nothing is going out, and I can find no tools on my computer to capture anything on the way in. Well, it appears that releasing and renewing the IP solved it at least for now. Now, pardon me while I go out and look at a few packet capture tools to ensure I am not stuck with this situation again. Ethereal should be able to sniff well enough, a good Unix tool brought to Windows, now, to packet capture so I can perhaps be alerted when a flood begins and I can find the source and try to disable it. Off for now.
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