Re: Problems with Modems

Prof Jake Messinger (jake@ams.com)
Tue, 1 Oct 1996 13:58:51 -0500 (CDT)

I have a switch on my modem rack to busy it out.
On intelligent racks, you can telnet to the rack and busy out a certain
modem.
If you have uniform call distribution, then you a person comes in on a
ramdom line and the dead modem wont kill the rest of the pool.

On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Old Man wrote:

>
> Sorry if this is off-topic.
>
> I hope any ISPs out there can share their experience here. What I need to
> know is that if you have a pool of modems, and one modem dies, will a user
> keep ringing that modem, getting stuck at that line instead of hopping
> down to the next one (because of a received busy signal)? So what is the
> best way of bypassing a dead modem? thanks!
>
>

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