[159442] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Meuse)
Thu Jan 10 14:17:45 2013
In-Reply-To: <89C6E797-A443-4FBD-8AE4-3501139AB4B4@puck.nether.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:17:33 -0500
From: Steve Meuse <smeuse@mara.org>
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> wrote:
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> 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.
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> - Jared
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When I worked in the BBN NOC, we used the customers fax line to determine
if the site still had power :) Too many times the cleaners would blow fuses
when using the vacuum on the same circuit as the router.
-Steve
