[23041] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Maintenance modems and power failures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ron Buchalski)
Thu Feb 11 11:59:31 1999
From: "Ron Buchalski" <rbuchals@hotmail.com>
To: tex@shrubbery.net, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 07:43:02 PST
>Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 18:38:57 -0800
>From: Austin Schutz <tex@shrubbery.net>
>To: nanog@merit.edu
>Subject: Re: Maintenance modems and power failures
>
>>Most network providers are aware of the secret hiding in most of our
>>POPs. Those little sporters and courier modems stuffed into a rack
>>somewhere plugged into the nearest available outlet, as the only
>>out-of-band access. Has anyone come up with a solution for powering
>>these forgotten pieces of equipment, which doesn't cost more than
>>the modem itself?
>>
>>At first you might think it makes sense to power them off the UPS
>>which is powering the rest of your equipment. The only problem is
>>if you are using the maintenance modem to monitor your UPS. This
>>is just one of those things which has bugged me for a few years, but
>>I still haven't come up with a solution I really like.
>>
> Get two modems.
>
>POTS ---- Modem 0 ---- Modem 1
> | |
> UPS AC Utility AC
>
> This only really makes sense if you have your terminal server
>w/ redundant power, one utility AC and the other UPS AC.
Don't forget to change the settings on one of the modems so that it
answers on a different number of rings.
-rb
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