server reboot

i had to reboot my server, after 100+ days of uptime due to user stupidity. a friend of mine wanted to play some quake, but he can’t serve, so i had to. but for me to do that i had to hook up my DSL modem directly into my desktop box. but i got the wires mixed up and hooked up the cable from my server (which also functions as a firewall/router) to my desktop box. so after 15 minutes of troubleshooting, i finally got the wires all sorted out and played some Q3. when that was all done, i hooked up my desktop to the hub and the DSL modem back to my server. but from my desktop, i couldn’t get any ping responses from the server. i think i messed up the network services by hooking up the desktop straight to my server. i know i could have hopped onto the server and just restarted the network daemons, but the server is in my closet and runs headless. and since it was 1:30am, i was too lazy and tired to move my monitor and plug it into the server. so i just did a vulcan neck pinch and rebooted the server…