Re: Mutlitech Modems

Scott Henry (scotth@hoshi.corp.sgi.com)
Thu, 21 Sep 1995 18:02:55 -0700

>>>>> "J" == Jon Green <- User Support <jon@worf.netins.net>> writes:

J> Well, you need at least one Windoze box to be the actual modem manager.

Ugh. Kill that. Needing to buy a Windoze box is a sure death for
that idea around here.

J> We do things the old fashioned way.. if we need to get into the modem
J> manager, we go into the computer room and do it from the console. :)

We want to get away from that, since the network operations is in a
different building than the computer rooms... Anybody's rack is (at
least trivially) managable if you are physically there...

J> I dunno about the standard SNMP.. I think it's in the works to make
J> it all Winsock compliant, but I don't think it is yet.

What does Winsock compliance have to do with standard TCP/IP SNMP?

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