And back in my day we were excited when we deployed the USR (eventually 3Com) Total Control access servers. Thanks, Joe -----Original Message----- From: Paul Stewart [mailto:paul@paulstewart.org] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 4:10 PM To: Vinny_Abello@Dell.com; kamtha@ak-labs.net; sam@circlenet.us Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: do ISPs keep track of end-user IP changes within thier network? 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! :) Paul On 12/16/2013, 3:16 PM, "Vinny_Abello@Dell.com" <Vinny_Abello@Dell.com> wrote:
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PM3's were pretty solid. PM4's, not so much. They were often problematic requiring periodic reboots of the entire chassis to keep them sane even right up through the last firmware release until Lucent killed them off in favor of their newly acquired Ascend equipment. The team that designed them were good guys. We used to work directly with them on issues and get early access to beta releases of new firmware for the PM's, including new cutting edge protocols such as K56Flex and later V.90. :)
-Vinny
-----Original Message----- From: Carlos Kamtha [mailto:kamtha@ak-labs.net] Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2013 3:05 AM To: sam@circlenet.us Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: do ISPs keep track of end-user IP changes within thier network?
The PMs were fantastic.
PM3's were pretty good as well. 2 PRIs or T1s.. 48 56k digital modems, + ISDN support.. :)
Carlos.
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 05:21:18PM -0500, Sam Moats wrote:
I still have a soft spot for the Portmasters :-). We had rows of PM2's with US robotics 33.6K sportster modems attached on 8mm tape racks. Back when a town of 40K people could all connect through 2XT1's and everyone was happy. Sam Moats
On 2013-12-13 16:59, Jon Lewis wrote:
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