[49078] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bet on with my boss
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Fri Jun 21 18:29:25 2002
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 18:31:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@fugawi.net>
To: "Vincent J. Bono" <vbono@vinny.org>
Cc: Pawlukiewicz Jane <pawlukiewicz_jane@bah.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <006f01c2196f$9b9fa370$7080ba8c@VINNYARMADA>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Regards,
--
Martin Hannigan hannigan@fugawi.net
Boston, MA http://www.fugawi.net
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Vincent J. Bono wrote:
>
> We recently had a piece of equipment fail outside of Bronson, FL. This was
> in a regeneration hut, 50 miles from almost anywhere useful. There is no
> cellular service and no POTs in the HUT. The closest employee was a woman
> who although bright was not very familiar with the equipment installed.
> Because the management channel (IP) was still working to the site, an
> engineer here in Quincy, MA was able to step her through fixing the problem
> using nothing but IRC and two-way pager. It took her 35 minutes to correct
> the issue.
>
> Harder than with a phone? Yes. Impossible? No. Without that IP channel
> running? It would have taken closer to an hour and a half by my guess but
> still doable. Smoke signals or semaphore? I won't hazard a guess.
>
> -vb
Regards,
--
Martin Hannigan hannigan@fugawi.net
Boston, MA http://www.fugawi.net
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Vincent J. Bono wrote:
> Harder than with a phone? Yes. Impossible? No. Without that IP channel
> running? It would have taken closer to an hour and a half by my guess but
> still doable. Smoke signals or semaphore? I won't hazard a guess.
That's it. I'm giving semaphore classes at the BBQ. :)
