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[ On Friday, June 29, 2001 at 14:08:12 (-0400), Fletcher E Kittredge wrote: ] > Subject: Re: Cable Modem [really responsible engineering] > > This works when the modem is on, and when you don't have a large > number of modems... For a large number of modems, running that number > of smtpgets when there is an active problem to be solved is not fun. > > How would you do historical data? Remember what I said about caching and updating the cache? (there should be a clue here for you -- this question always keeps coming back to the very same answer!) > How frequently would you poll the > CPE to put together your history? I wouldn't ever poll the CPE. All I ever need to know about CPE devices is in my dhcpd.leases file (and the dhcpd syslog entries). > Greg, with all due respect, I have been doing all of this for longer > than you :) Back around 1986, I realized that there are no original > ideas in an Internetworked world. Given the same problem, people tend > to come up with the same solutions. Especially since nanog readers > tend to share the same paradigms... You think so, do you? :-) -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Planix, Inc. <[email protected]>; Secrets of the Weird <[email protected]>
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