[11685] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBN (GTE) Suffers another major power problem.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Tackett)
Fri Aug 8 11:10:45 1997
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 10:03:50 -0500 (CDT)
From: Brian Tackett <cym@acrux.net>
To: Matthew White <mtw@channel1.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970808090636.032b43b0@pop.channel1.com>
On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Matthew White wrote:
> Anybody that can survive 2 hours running huge amounts of equipment must
> have their own power grid. :)
>
> Our little UPSes didn't survive...
Our solution to this was pretty simple: A gasoline generator and some
heavy-duty cable :) No idea how that would scale (probably poorly), but at
least it enabled us to get core services back online.
