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Grex > Info > #361: Grex System Problems - Spring 2004 |  |
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rcurl
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response 305 of 405:
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May 19 17:27 UTC 2004 |
1:19pm up 29 days, 15:38, 5 users, load average: 0.41, 0.41, 0.28
Login Name TTY Idle Login Time Location Work Phone
amishel anton mishel p5 4d May 15 02:31
newuser The Newuser Program p0 17d Apr 24 13:51
rcurl Rane Curl *pe May 19 13:19
sgsg sg p6 19d Apr 30 08:12
viju Johnson p8 1d May 18 02:28
Net connection down. But shouldn't the idle zapper have zapped some of
those idlers?
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kip
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response 306 of 405:
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May 19 18:19 UTC 2004 |
Haven't worked with the idle zapper yet, not sure, would think so.
DSL back up. I'll be trying out the replacement DSL modem after work today
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twenex
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response 307 of 405:
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May 19 19:19 UTC 2004 |
Patience? What patience? ;-P
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kip
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response 308 of 405:
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May 19 23:26 UTC 2004 |
On the DSL news front, I tried out the new modem, but it remained in IDSL
mode and wouldn't connect to our SDSL connection. I'm taking it home and will
reread the manual to see what I missed.
Also, our old DSL modem managed to lock up starting about 1:00am EDT today,
I didn't get a chance to run down to the Pumpkin until about 2:00pm to kick
it. Amusingly, the stats for the old modem from 2:15pm to 7:00pm, when I
disconnected it to try the new modem, were perfect with no errors what so ever.
Did anyone happen to notice if they had lag between 2:15pm and 7:00pm today?
I'm still talking to our ISP in case it turns out to be the line. :)
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mcnally
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response 309 of 405:
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May 20 00:28 UTC 2004 |
If the new DSL modem isn't linking to the provider's DSLAM it's probably
because you need information about what settings to use; hopefully the
provider can provide them if they haven't already done so.
I'm not sure what information you have about the connection already but
DSL comes in a pretty wide range of flavors, including different line
codings, different protocols, different authentication specifications,
etc.. It's not realistic to just plug in a DSL modem and expect it to
work without knowing more about your provider's setup.
Most probably you already knew all that, but I mention it just in case
you didn't. DSL is unfortunately not as "plug and play" as many other
networking technologies.
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achu
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response 310 of 405:
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May 20 00:32 UTC 2004 |
in ancient china, communications took a different route.
everyone knows about the chinese pea shooters that young boys like to wield.
but where did this enwielding custom come from?
it came from a sort of training. in ancient days, the land of china was
covered by vast networks of bamboo connecting post offices in cities towns
and villages to other post offices in other ctvs. messages would be
transported pneumatically by blowing strongly into one endexpress mail was
also sucked. the people learned how to do this by first practicing with pea
shooters.
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twenex
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response 311 of 405:
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May 20 03:05 UTC 2004 |
After a fairly long hiatus, grex connectivity problems are back.
Welcome to Grex, Lagadelphia - City of Brotherly Lag.
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tsty
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response 312 of 405:
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May 20 03:50 UTC 2004 |
.. not right now ... someting is going right .. for the moment.
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tod
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response 313 of 405:
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May 20 17:07 UTC 2004 |
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mcnally
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response 314 of 405:
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May 20 18:05 UTC 2004 |
Admittedly, even after most of a year working for a DSL provider
I haven't mastered a good deal of the lingo (the telco side being
perhaps even worse than the computer side for having its own
vocabulary) but at least as I have usually heard them used, "ADSL"
vs "SDSL" shouldn't matter. The "A" and the "S" stand for
"asymmetric" and "symmetric" and refer basically to the upload and
download speeds. Those aren't generally things that need to be set
up in the customer's modem, they're more usually limited by the
provider at the DSLAM.
I won't know the specifics for your DSL provider but it's possible
I can still provide advice on the DSL issue. Don't hesitate to ask
if you need assistance..
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twenex
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response 315 of 405:
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May 20 18:08 UTC 2004 |
Re: #314. Yeah; people who complain about computers being hard to use wuold
be totally lost in the telephone world if what i've seen of it is anything
to go by. As a self-confessed geek, the stories in Levy's HACKERS about theMIT
Hackers who engaged in phreaking struck me as really nerdy. Yes, I can smell
the irony right here. It's burning my butt.
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mcnally
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response 316 of 405:
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May 20 18:40 UTC 2004 |
re #314: My mistake -- I thought in the other item you'd said "ADSL",
not "IDSL"..
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twenex
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response 317 of 405:
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May 20 18:42 UTC 2004 |
So, what's "IDSL"?
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scott
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response 318 of 405:
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May 20 20:49 UTC 2004 |
"Intermittent Digital Subscriber Line". Strangely unpopular, though.
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twenex
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response 319 of 405:
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May 20 20:51 UTC 2004 |
I see. Thanks. Maybe the "intermittent" has to do with unpopularity. maybe
peple think it's Redmond Quality h/w.
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kip
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response 320 of 405:
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May 20 21:38 UTC 2004 |
Sorry, the day job has been pretty full today and I still have a class to
teach tonight, so I haven't made much headway.
IDSL stands for ISDN Digital Subscriber Line and is usually used where ADSL
and SDSL can't reach due to the excessive distances from the Central Office.
The issue appears to be that I'll have to replace the firmware in the DSL
modem to deal with SDSL or RFC1483, as it is currently set to deal with
IDSL/Frame Relay/RFC1490.
Anyway, I'll be looking into tonight after class.
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kip
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response 321 of 405:
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May 20 21:41 UTC 2004 |
Plus the silly manufacturer really writes their stuff like you'll always have
a Windows PC laying around to install all sorts of nasty software on it just
to do things like TFTP. We've got a perfectly good OpenBSD box to do that
with instead. :)
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twenex
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response 322 of 405:
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May 20 21:45 UTC 2004 |
Gah. Clickanddroolville.
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realugly
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response 323 of 405:
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May 20 22:12 UTC 2004 |
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soup
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response 324 of 405:
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May 20 23:43 UTC 2004 |
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tod
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response 325 of 405:
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May 21 00:36 UTC 2004 |
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twenex
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response 326 of 405:
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May 21 00:38 UTC 2004 |
Heh. nice one :-)
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realugly
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response 327 of 405:
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May 21 02:08 UTC 2004 |
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soup
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response 328 of 405:
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May 21 02:47 UTC 2004 |
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gull
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response 329 of 405:
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May 21 14:44 UTC 2004 |
Re resp:315: I recently had to deal with an SBC employee who needed some
specific information about our phone system at work. He kept using
telco lingo that I didn't understand, and when I'd say "I don't know
what that is" he'd just repeat the same thing over again. He was
totally incapable of communicating with anyone who wasn't familiar with
the jargon.
We've been trying to switch our phone system from KMC to SBC, but for
some reason they want a bunch of highly technical information that we
don't know and have never had to provide before.
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