Re: do ISPs keep track of end-user IP changes within thier network?

[Sam Moats <sam () circlenet us>]

That's the day we decided we needed better edge routers :-).. I watch a 
modem pool infected with code red melt a cisco 3640. Had to throw a 
Linux box in it's place while I waited for Cisco equipment.
Sam Moats

On 2013-12-17 09:54, Blake Dunlap wrote:
> All I remember from the TNT days is the meltdown when Code Red 
> happened.
> Why exactly an access platform should melt down when a worm occurs 
> still
> bothers me.
>
> -Blake
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 8:44 AM, <Vinny_Abello () dell com> wrote:
>
> > Dell - Internal Use - Confidential
> >
> > I personally never ran the Ascend gear (outside of a setting up a
> > customer's Ascend Superpipe 95 dual ISDN router one time), but I 
> > heard that
> > the TNT gear doubled as space heaters. I remember one facility we 
> > were in
> > that had a catastrophic cooling failure and the temperatures went to 
> > insane
> > levels. Our PM3's happily kept running and never had an issue where 
> > I heard
> > every TNT box in the facility kept rebooting and crashing.
> >
> > -Vinny
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nick Hilliard [mailto:nick () foobar org]
> > Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 4:22 PM
> > To: Paul Stewart
> > Cc: nanog () nanog org
> > Subject: Re: do ISPs keep track of end-user IP changes within thier
> > network?
> >
> > On 16/12/2013 21:09, Paul Stewart wrote:
> > > 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!
> >
> > "Exciting" was just the word for Ascends.  In the mid 90s, I cured 
> > lots of
> > this excitement by putting my ascends on a socket timer which 
> > physically
> > rebooted them a couple of times daily.  The support load dropped off
> > substantially due to that.
> >
> > Nick