[159428] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Thu Jan 10 12:09:11 2013
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <20130110165237.GA632@pob.ytti.fi>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:08:55 -0500
To: Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 10, 2013, at 11:52 AM, Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi> wrote:
> On (2013-01-10 11:41 -0500), Randy Whitney wrote:
>=20
>> Nothing beats POTS in a broad power outage scenario. Numerous power
>> outages have taken down mobile service completely while the POTS
>> lines stayed up as it carries its own power by design.
>=20
> Is your RS232 Modem POTS powered?
>=20
> If POP is powerless, where will be POTS powered RS232 Modem connect =
to?
Not sure about you, but I've used the ability for a POTS line to either =
ring or give me a modem tone to determine the power status at the site.
- Jared
