internship-part 2
Yesterday my supervisor @ 'boss' assigned a task for me. My primary job is to create a vehicle registration system for monitoring the distribution of car stickers for PKK staff's and to replace the current manual filing system. Not my favorite type of work...but...whatever~
Besides doing the main task for my report evaluation, I am also required to deal with networking, server administration and troubleshooting. These are the fields that I prefer the most. I really hate doing programming (sometimes), but because of my varsity course, I am required to do something that suits my study field...wrong course choice, I think..whatever~
Since my first day at PKK, I noticed that their DHCP IP always goes berzerk after every few hours. The DHCP IP would get disconnected and then after about half an hour, it would be back to normal and then a few hours later the same thing keeps repeating. No wonder the staffs always complain about the inaccessible internet. It's actually because of their DHCP server. I told them about the problem and suggest them to use static IP. I have been using static IP since my first day and when the problem occurs, the only person who were able to surf the net was me. 
Then my boss showed me the DHCP server they were using, a Fedora 9 box. She asked my opinion about the DHCP server problem but since I don't know the server settings and I am not quite sure how the thing operates, I suggest that it may have been caused by some misconfiguration or hardware/networking problems. She asked me about some command on the unix box since she was not quite familiar with it and reboot the box. Then I learned that the server actually may have some hardware and OS problems after it hang upon loading some startup module (always happened) and the server could not be shut down 'normally' (the power button is damaged)...old box
Tomorrow I will be continuing my work to troubleshoot one of the file server, which are running on Windows Server 2003 and always having problem of getting disconnected from the network (if I'm not mistaken), and also setting up the KVM switch for monitoring multiple servers from a single keyboard, video monitor and mouse.
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