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RE: netblazer Was: baiting
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan () verisign com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:13:23 -0500
-----Original Message----- From: Robert E.Seastrom [mailto:rs () seastrom com] Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 11:11 AM To: Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine Cc: Hannigan, Martin; wsimpson () greendragon com; nanog () merit edu Subject: Re: netblazer Was: baiting Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner () nic-naa net> writes:In this period of time, the White Knights built the InterOpshownets andwe had comparative access to quite a lot of vendor product,and know thatthe red buttons on Wellfleets were correctly positioned onthe front, foreasy access. We used NetBlazers for dial-up outbound (wewere topologicallyquite diverse by '91, our last show in the San Josefacility) and I don'trecall anything ... resembling the behavior that I couldcharacterize asPOS like function.My recollection of that show was "T-1 to BARRnet", not bonded-Netblazer-dialout, but I didn't "work the show" until the following spring, so my recollection could be at fault. I wouldn't characterize Netblazers as being particularly cruddy compared to other options available at the time. Remember that this was the era of the Cisco ASM, the Encore/Xylogics Annex (Wellfleet hadn't changed their name to Bay yet, much less bought the Annex product line), some nasty 3com terminal server of which my memory has thankfully purged most details and the gone but not lamented Cisco TRouter. The Netblazers worked pretty darned well when plugged into Telebit modems. Third party modems, well, there were a lot of knobs you could twist, and not the best in the way of documentation on what to do with 'em. Based on my experience with them, I'm quite sure they were fabulous devices capable of being configured in the field to do just about anything, if you had the level of familiarity with their internals that someone who worked QA for them would have had.
There really wasn't any good modem, IMHO, back then. They were all painful to configure and make work reliably. Once the "net" revolution started it still took years to get modems working reliably. In '98 I know that the Max TNT was only getting about 85% call completion across_the_board. Call completion only takes into account the completed handshake. Then you dealt with code issues after you got them to at least connect. -M<
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- Re: netblazer Was: baiting Hannigan, Martin (Jan 17)
- Re: netblazer Was: baiting Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine (Jan 17)
- Re: netblazer Was: baiting Robert E . Seastrom (Jan 19)
- Re: netblazer Was: baiting Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine (Jan 19)
- Terminal Servers (was Re: netblazer Was: baiting) John Palmer (Jan 19)
- Re: Terminal Servers (was Re: netblazer Was: baiting) Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine (Jan 19)
- Re: netblazer Was: baiting Robert E . Seastrom (Jan 19)
- Re: netblazer Was: baiting Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine (Jan 17)
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