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 :-( -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message