Wait, you mean to say that the normal mode for TNT's was it *not* to reboot and crash all the time? :) Ascend tech support's stock answer to any issue was either 1) Upgrade the code 2) Oh, you already tried that? downgrade the code! :) And the company that managed to put out a release to 'fix a spelling error' that managed to completely break all IP routing? :) (Yes, I loved the PM2/PM3's) Ken On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 7:44 AM, <Vinny_Abello@dell.com> wrote:
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I personally never ran the Ascend gear (outside of a setting up a customer's Ascend Superpipe 95 dual ISDN router one time), but I heard that the TNT gear doubled as space heaters. I remember one facility we were in that had a catastrophic cooling failure and the temperatures went to insane levels. Our PM3's happily kept running and never had an issue where I heard every TNT box in the facility kept rebooting and crashing.
-Vinny
-----Original Message----- From: Nick Hilliard [mailto:nick@foobar.org] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 4:22 PM To: Paul Stewart Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: do ISPs keep track of end-user IP changes within thier network?
On 16/12/2013 21:09, Paul Stewart wrote:
Back in the day (geesh I feel old just saying that), I deployed a lot of PM3’s …. Then we moved to Ascend TNT Max stuff - that was very exciting back then!
"Exciting" was just the word for Ascends. In the mid 90s, I cured lots of this excitement by putting my ascends on a socket timer which physically rebooted them a couple of times daily. The support load dropped off substantially due to that.
Nick