[167527] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: do ISPs keep track of end-user IP changes within thier network?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Matlock)
Wed Dec 18 09:25:15 2013
In-Reply-To: <FD9B2CB2B33E394FAE3B7466954760571D6914AA@DFWX10HMPTC01.AMER.DELL.COM>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:05:04 -0700
From: Ken Matlock <matlockken@gmail.com>
To: Vinny_Abello@dell.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Wait, you mean to say that the normal mode for TNT's was it *not* to reboot
and crash all the time? :)
Ascend tech support's stock answer to any issue was either
1) Upgrade the code
2) Oh, you already tried that? downgrade the code! :)
And the company that managed to put out a release to 'fix a spelling error'
that managed to completely break all IP routing? :)
(Yes, I loved the PM2/PM3's)
Ken
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 7:44 AM, <Vinny_Abello@dell.com> wrote:
> Dell - Internal Use - Confidential
>
> I personally never ran the Ascend gear (outside of a setting up a
> customer's Ascend Superpipe 95 dual ISDN router one time), but I heard th=
at
> the TNT gear doubled as space heaters. I remember one facility we were in
> that had a catastrophic cooling failure and the temperatures went to insa=
ne
> levels. Our PM3's happily kept running and never had an issue where I hea=
rd
> every TNT box in the facility kept rebooting and crashing.
>
> -Vinny
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Hilliard [mailto:nick@foobar.org]
> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 4:22 PM
> To: Paul Stewart
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: do ISPs keep track of end-user IP changes within thier
> network?
>
> On 16/12/2013 21:09, Paul Stewart wrote:
> > Back in the day (geesh I feel old just saying that), I deployed a lot o=
f
> > PM3=92s =85. Then we moved to Ascend TNT Max stuff - that was very exci=
ting
> > back then!
>
> "Exciting" was just the word for Ascends. In the mid 90s, I cured lots o=
f
> this excitement by putting my ascends on a socket timer which physically
> rebooted them a couple of times daily. The support load dropped off
> substantially due to that.
>
> Nick
>
>
