One note on this :-)..
Some time ago, a friend of mine worked in a carrier that had dialup modems for
out-of-band access ('lights-out, end-of-world' recovery)
They kept the practice in a new NGN Class4/5 replacement..
Detail, the dial-up line went over the NGN..............
On Dec 29, 2009, at 6:03 AM, Mehmet Akcin wrote:
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> On Dec 29, 2009, at 2:07 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
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>> On Dec 29, 2009, at 6:02 PM, Luca Tosolini wrote:
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>>> this leaves out only ipp 7 for management traffic, on the premise that
>>> routing and management should not share the same queue and resources.....
>>
>> Management-plane traffic should be sent/received via your DCN/OOB network,
>> so that it's not competing with customer traffic nor subject to network
>> partitions or other disruptive events. It should not be co-mingled with
>> traffic on the production network.
>
> Agreed, it's very important to have a management network that is reachable
> while you are under ddos or some kind of mess you or someone else've created.
> Often having something like an ADSL like connection will save trips to colo
> and will give you nice abilities to work on stuff when combined with serial
> management tools.
>
> Mehmet
