[COLUG] Hughes net business class internet service

[Pat Collins]

On Thu, 03 May 2007 15:09:34 -0400, charles morrison <charlie2 at ledgible.com>
wrote :

> P.S.
> Still fighting the Cingular Aircard problem. More on this later. Be at 
> lunch tomorrow.
> 

I setup an office on a Sprint Mobile Wireless card (Novatel Merlin S620) and
it works fantastic.  When I went into the office last night to connect the
new T1 the card had been in use for a week during the transition between
service providers.  No calls of "the internet is down", it just worked.   

I used Ubuntu 7.04 to setup and it was quick and easy with the ppp chat
scripts from 
http://samat.org/weblog/20070128-sprints-evdo-mobile-broadband-on-ubuntu-linux.html
.  I think it took me 15 minutes total to get it running.

The only issue I had was learning how the new init system works to start
daemontools on boot (dnscache) and fixing a bug in the firehol script that
was causing iptables to barf on the firewall rules.  

Pat