[49069] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re[2]: Bet on with my boss
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Welty)
Fri Jun 21 16:06:43 2002
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:01:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net>
To: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020621194223.GN12550@darkuncle.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 12:42:23 -0700 Scott Francis <darkuncle@darkuncle.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 03:37:56PM -0400, pawlukiewicz_jane@bah.com said:
> > How important is the phone to you? I mean, given some situation that
> > arises, can we solve it without the phones?
> If the network is down, the phone is critical. For any complicated
> problem,
> the phone is also critical.
and in particular, one point that the inexperienced often overlook, but
probably 99% of the readership of this list is familiar with, is that a
modem in a remote equipment cabinet is a good thing, as when you blow a
router config and it stops talking to the network, dialing into it via
said modem is the only quick path to saving your job.
richard
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Richard Welty rwelty@averillpark.net
Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592
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