[186272] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Modem as a service?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jamie Gwatkin)
Mon Dec 7 14:07:55 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.1512071319380.10544@soloth.lewis.org>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 14:07:51 -0500
From: Jamie Gwatkin <jamie@workshopx.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
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You could easily do this using Twillio. We've done the same thing to test
if a PBX is up.
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org> wrote:
> 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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