[186270] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Modem as a service?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Mon Dec 7 13:23:07 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 13:22:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon@cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <5665C7C9.5080600@cox.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Mon, 7 Dec 2015, Larry Sheldon wrote:
> I'll join the confusion--I thought the OP wanted to test for power
> availability at the distant site by seeing if a modem there would answer the
> phone there. That it HAD to be a modem in that case makes no sense to me.
Presumably, the modems are already there (setup to answer) as a means to
access the OOB console servers in the case of a network outage. "Does it
answer" is just a simple way to tell "is the power out, and everything's
dead, or is there a network problem that's caused us to lose visibility?"
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