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_abe...@dell.com> wrote: > Dell - Internal Use - Confidential > > 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:n...@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 > >
