In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrzej Bialecki writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> 
>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Julian Stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> e" writes:
>> >"doc. dr. Marjan Mihelin, dipl. ing." wrote:
>> >> Hello,
>> >> We are using from 1993 Fiskars UPS 0.8 A UPS unit
>> 
>> Fiskars is part of Invensys/Powercom these days.
>
>Together with a co-worker we reverse-engineered the protocols for ca. 6
>different types of Fiskars UPSes - all of them used different packet
>formats, even different speeds and parity (!). We couldn't get any docs
>from them to help us, only a lousy Win* program... Keep that in mind the
>next time you go shopping for a UPS.

Yeah, you can't even trust their SNMP interface to get it right :-(

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