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Re: Accidentally killed Max! (was Re: (ASCEND) proxy arp (was firewall probs?) )
At 04:19 PM 9/16/98 , Phillip Vandry wrote:
>> Would you believe that I did the same thing on one segment of our corporate
>> LAN once. It was with the original P25, which always did proxy-ARP!
>>
>> I *have* pleaded the case in the past, but business cases against the
change
>> have so far won out. It is configurable after-all. Maybe I'll recommend
that
>> we add a warning note in the box.....
>
>Speaking of old old Ascend things that we might wish to be different, I
>thought I'd mention this...
>
>Today I wanted to do a "wandsess" on someone's session, but I accidentally
>hit ESC [ ESC - instead of ESC [ ESC = (hey, the keys are adjacent).
>*D'oh*! ESC [ ESC - immediately kills any Pipeline or Max, drops it to
>Xmodem on the serial port mode.
That's why we added the "ctrl-d, D" option to get to debug mode....
>While heading over to the machine room to power cycle the unfortunate box,
>I found myself wondering what I would do if it was in a remote POP!
>Fortunately, by the time I got there, it had rebooted. It seems that,
>at least, the box will reboot after a while if it does not receive an
>Xmodem load.
Yes, after about 1 minute if nothing has been received.
>Hmm. I'll try to avoid doing that again!
Patient: "Doctor it hurts when I hit my head like this....."
;-)
Kevin Smith (kevin@ascend.com)
Ascend Communications...
...where Network Solutions never end.
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