SNMP power monitors

2010-02-16 Thread Douglas K. Rand
We are looking at some SNMP power monitors, and the WattNode devices from Continental Control Systems (http://www.ccontrolsys.com/products/wattnode_modbus.html) seem to fit the bill. (At least when mated to something like an iBoard2 from Control Solutions (http://www.csimn.com/CSI_pages/iboard2WN.

Re: In wall switches

2010-02-16 Thread Douglas K. Rand
> Does anyone know of anything like a small, but managed in wall switch? We had looked at the 3com NJ90 for a deployment. We ended up pulling more wire instead, but it was a cool device. It isn't managed. But from the 3com page I see that they now have new devices, the NJ220 for managed fast Ether

Re: smstools and CDMA

2008-06-20 Thread Douglas K. Rand
Doug> Anyway, I'm trying to figure out a way of sending and receiving text Doug> messages using a tool like smstools and a CDMA modem. Doug> I've found the MultiTech CDMA modem (MTCBA-C-N3-NAM) but I can't Doug> seem to find any success stories to go along with it. Phil> (I gather you mean sms

Re: smstools and CDMA

2008-06-20 Thread Douglas K. Rand
Andrey> I have a RHEL server that I connected MultiTech CDMA modem Andrey> (MTCBA-C-U-N3) and running smstools3 with it. Great! Andrey> Let me know if you want some documents that I wrote up when I Andrey> was messing with it. Yes, that'd be great.

smstools and CDMA

2008-06-20 Thread Douglas K. Rand
From the GMS point of view I live and work in the boondocks: Grand Forks, North Dakota. (OK, so there is a decent argument that the entire US is GSM boondocks.) Anyway, I'm trying to figure out a way of sending and receiving text messages using a tool like smstools and a CDMA modem. I've found t

Re: [NANOG] Strange network behaviour

2008-05-05 Thread Douglas K. Rand
> Did your inbound path change as a result? Yes, I was trying to re-balance our inbound traffic a bit better. The route-map change resulted in about 30% of our traffic coming in via our other provider. The change was made around 16:00 (CDT) last Friday, about 72 hours before this problem was broug

Re: [NANOG] Strange network behaviour

2008-05-05 Thread Douglas K. Rand
In the popular tradition of replying to my own post ... It seems that this problem started right around the time I changed our BGP configuration. I did: config term route-map att_out permit set as-path prepend 19317 19317 exit clear ip bgp 12.87.125.249 out This change was to increase our p

[NANOG] Strange network behaviour

2008-05-05 Thread Douglas K. Rand
We had a very strange problem today. Two of our hosts could not reach a server, but only those two hosts. All of our other hosts could reach those servers fine. (OK, I didn't try ALL of our IPs, but the half dozen I did try worked fine.) I checked all of our firewalls and routers, and everywhere