[39250] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cable Modem [really responsible engineering]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Fri Jun 29 14:57:49 2001
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From: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
To: Fletcher E Kittredge <fkittred@gwi.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu (North America Network Operators Group Mailing List)
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Reply-To: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:57:16 -0400 (EDT)
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[ On Friday, June 29, 2001 at 14:08:12 (-0400), Fletcher E Kittredge wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Cable Modem [really responsible engineering]
>
> This works when the modem is on, and when you don't have a large
> number of modems... For a large number of modems, running that number
> of smtpgets when there is an active problem to be solved is not fun.
>
> How would you do historical data?
Remember what I said about caching and updating the cache?
(there should be a clue here for you -- this question always keeps
coming back to the very same answer!)
> How frequently would you poll the
> CPE to put together your history?
I wouldn't ever poll the CPE. All I ever need to know about CPE devices
is in my dhcpd.leases file (and the dhcpd syslog entries).
> Greg, with all due respect, I have been doing all of this for longer
> than you :) Back around 1986, I realized that there are no original
> ideas in an Internetworked world. Given the same problem, people tend
> to come up with the same solutions. Especially since nanog readers
> tend to share the same paradigms...
You think so, do you? :-)
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Greg A. Woods
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