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

[Joe McLeod <jmcleod () musfiber net>]

And back in my day we were excited when we deployed the USR (eventually 3Com) Total Control access servers.

Thanks,

Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Stewart [mailto:paul () paulstewart org] 
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 4:10 PM
To: Vinny_Abello () Dell com; kamtha () ak-labs net; sam () circlenet us
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: do ISPs keep track of end-user IP changes within thier network?

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! 

:)

Paul


On 12/16/2013, 3:16 PM, "Vinny_Abello () Dell com" <Vinny_Abello () Dell com>
wrote:

> Dell - Internal Use - Confidential
>
> PM3's were pretty solid. PM4's, not so much. They were often 
> problematic requiring periodic reboots of the entire chassis to keep 
> them sane even right up through the last firmware release until Lucent 
> killed them off in favor of their newly acquired Ascend equipment. The 
> team that designed them were good guys. We used to work directly with 
> them on issues and get early access to beta releases of new firmware 
> for the PM's, including new cutting edge protocols such as K56Flex and 
> later V.90. :)
>
> -Vinny
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carlos Kamtha [mailto:kamtha () ak-labs net]
> Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2013 3:05 AM
> To: sam () circlenet us
> Cc: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Re: do ISPs keep track of end-user IP changes within thier 
> network?
>
>
> The PMs were fantastic.
>
> PM3's were pretty good as well. 2 PRIs or T1s.. 48 56k digital modems, 
> + ISDN support.. :)
>
> Carlos. 
>
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 05:21:18PM -0500, Sam Moats wrote:
> > I still have a soft spot for the Portmasters :-). We had rows of 
> > PM2's with US robotics 33.6K sportster modems attached on 8mm tape racks.
> > Back when a town of 40K people could all connect through 2XT1's and 
> > everyone was happy.
> > Sam Moats
> >
> > On 2013-12-13 16:59, Jon Lewis wrote:





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