1700 Martin Luther King Jr Way

Frank Zappa was a great man. Just saw his son Dweezel play on Wednesday in Santa Cruz. He’s making his dad proud.

Our office is at the corner of Martin Luther King and Virginia Street. There are two elementary schools, a preschool, and Totland park within two blocks.

Over the last many years we have witnessed numerous accidents and heard numerous screeches as cars have come to grinding emergency halts. This intersection is very dangerous. Thirteen months ago Jacki started requesting that the city take a look at this intersection and install some sort of warning for drivers to watch for and slow for pedestrians. Many many phone calls and e-mails later, Jacki was victorious. Four new signs were installed that will hopefully slow traffic.

We want to specifically thank Hamid Mostowfi in the Berkeley Public Works Department.

Well ain’t that just grand!

Lately we have been supplying new DSL customers with a Motorola/Netopia 2241 DSL router. There are pre-configured here at LMi to work as an Ethernet bridge.

If the 2241 loses it’s configuration, or is the modem is reset (using the reset pinhole on the back of the device), then the 2241 will act as a PPPoE-based router, which will not work on the LMi DSL network.

Here is how to reset the Motorola/Netopia 2241 into bridge mode:

• Connect a computer to the Ethernet interface on the 2241. Your computer should then be assigned an IP address of 192.168.1.2, assuming that your computer is set to obtain an IP address automatically.
• Open a web browser and go to this address: http://192.168.1.254
• This gets you to the management interface. Click the link on the left side of the page for Expert Mode.
• Confirm that you are an expert by clicking “Yes, enter expert mode”
• Click the Configure link on the left side.
• Click the Connection button which will appear just below the Configure link.
• Change the VPI from 8 to 0.
• Change Protocol from PPPoE to Bridged Ethernet.
• Click Save changes, and then Yes to restart device.

The device is now configured as a bridge, and no longer has an IP address of it’s own. Your computer (our router) will connect directly to the DSL network through the 2241. You may need to restart your computer or router to get connected.

Note that once the unit is configured as a bridge, you will no longer be able to access the management interface. You will need to reset it to factory settings (using the pin hole) to access the web interface.

Today is the 40th birthday of the Internet.