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Grex > Info > #361: Grex System Problems - Spring 2004 |  |
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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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tod
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response 330 of 405:
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May 21 15:43 UTC 2004 |
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soup
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response 331 of 405:
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May 21 23:00 UTC 2004 |
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tod
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response 332 of 405:
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May 21 23:01 UTC 2004 |
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jiffer
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response 333 of 405:
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May 21 23:18 UTC 2004 |
I do like the bridges over nothing... they bet they are exciting when it
rains.
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soup
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response 334 of 405:
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May 21 23:21 UTC 2004 |
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keesan
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response 335 of 405:
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May 24 22:22 UTC 2004 |
Time to change the motd?
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gelinas
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response 336 of 405:
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May 25 00:56 UTC 2004 |
We usually leave notices up about a week, so no, I don't think it's time to
change the motd.
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davel
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response 337 of 405:
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May 25 21:18 UTC 2004 |
That's good, since some people don't log in even weekly. But an item that
says something like
> Grex was off the DSL at 7:00pm EDT for a few minutes to try out a different
> DSL modem. The test was unsuccessful. Staff is looking into it further.
without specifying a date then becomes very confusing. Was this before or
after the May 19 loss which was also in the motd?
I admit that I'd rather have staff working on the problem than writing motd
notices, though.
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keesan
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response 338 of 405:
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May 26 16:59 UTC 2004 |
The motd is now one week old and the Wednesday referred to is last Wednesday.
I have not had any problems for the past few days on grex.
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albaugh
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response 339 of 405:
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May 26 21:18 UTC 2004 |
Yep, if motd authors could remember, it wouldn't be a bad idea to prefix each
item with the date the item was added, e.g.:
5/19: Grex was off the DSL at 7:00pm EDT for a few minutes...
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wlevak
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response 340 of 405:
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May 31 04:35 UTC 2004 |
IT appears to be down again
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wlevak
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response 341 of 405:
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May 31 05:26 UTC 2004 |
It's working normally now. Did someone fix it, or did it do it by itself?
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