Re: usr-courier init-string? (fwd)

Mike Taylor (taylor@syrinx.jeffnet.org)
Wed, 30 Oct 1996 10:47:58 -0800 (PST)

On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, John G. Thompson wrote:

> - NVRAM is good for 10 to 20 THOUSAND writes.
> Even at 1 thousand writes, and a reset every day of the year
> the NVRAM is good for 2.7 YEARS! Reset the modem once a week and
> the NVRAM is good for 19.2 YEARS!
>
My question is if you are writing the exact same string to the modem
every time, when the nvram fails, what type of failure is it? If it is a
burn in type of failure that would be cool (permanent init config.).
Anybody know the answer??
how long would it last at every 5 minutes??

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