> > On Mar 4, 2015, at 4:54 PM, Nick Hilliard <n...@foobar.org> wrote: > > On 04/03/2015 21:33, Jay Hennigan wrote: >> We used Livingston Portmaster 3 back in the day. Front to back >> ventilation, ran cool as a cucumber, plug it in and it just worked. >> Awesome gear until Lucent bought the company to kill the product in >> favor of their Ascend TNT space heaters. > > Ascend kit was a horror to deal with. I ran isdn dialin on some of their > lower end kit at one stage. It only worked because I put it on a power > timer which power-cycled it twice a day. > > +1 on portmasters, though. >
My ISP grew up on Livingston Postmaster 2e & 3s. I even had a Postmaster 4 for a bit. Lucent swapped that out for an APX 8000. I still have an Ascend TNT running the remainder of my modem pool. 8 Active users on it at the moment. Recently won a state contract for IP services. The very first order was for a chunk of dialup accounts so the Department of Conservation and Recreation could call in from their firepowers. It just keeps chugging away in a forgotten corner of my datacenter. > Nick > >