And back in my day we were excited when we deployed the USR (eventually 3Com) Total Control access servers.
Thanks, Joe -----Original Message----- From: Paul Stewart [mailto:p...@paulstewart.org] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 4:10 PM To: vinny_abe...@dell.com; kam...@ak-labs.net; s...@circlenet.us Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: do ISPs keep track of end-user IP changes within thier network? 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! :) Paul On 12/16/2013, 3:16 PM, "vinny_abe...@dell.com" <vinny_abe...@dell.com> wrote: >Dell - Internal Use - Confidential > >PM3's were pretty solid. PM4's, not so much. They were often >problematic requiring periodic reboots of the entire chassis to keep >them sane even right up through the last firmware release until Lucent >killed them off in favor of their newly acquired Ascend equipment. The >team that designed them were good guys. We used to work directly with >them on issues and get early access to beta releases of new firmware >for the PM's, including new cutting edge protocols such as K56Flex and >later V.90. :) > >-Vinny > >-----Original Message----- >From: Carlos Kamtha [mailto:kam...@ak-labs.net] >Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2013 3:05 AM >To: s...@circlenet.us >Cc: nanog@nanog.org >Subject: Re: do ISPs keep track of end-user IP changes within thier >network? > > >The PMs were fantastic. > >PM3's were pretty good as well. 2 PRIs or T1s.. 48 56k digital modems, >+ ISDN support.. :) > >Carlos. > >On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 05:21:18PM -0500, Sam Moats wrote: >> I still have a soft spot for the Portmasters :-). We had rows of >> PM2's with US robotics 33.6K sportster modems attached on 8mm tape racks. >> Back when a town of 40K people could all connect through 2XT1's and >> everyone was happy. >> Sam Moats >> >> On 2013-12-13 16:59, Jon Lewis wrote: > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.