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 -- Richard Welty rwelty@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592 Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security