do ISPs keep track of end-user IP changes within thier network?

Mon Dec 16 21:24:06 UTC 2013

And back in my day we were excited when we deployed the USR (eventually 3Com) Total Control access servers.

Thanks,

Joe

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From: Paul Stewart [mailto:paul at paulstewart.org] 
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 4:10 PM
To: Vinny_Abello at Dell.com; kamtha at ak-labs.net; sam at circlenet.us
Cc: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: do ISPs keep track of end-user IP changes within thier network?

Back in the day (geesh I feel old just saying that), I deployed a lot of PM3’s …. Then we moved to Ascend TNT Max stuff - that was very exciting back then! 

:)

Paul

On 12/16/2013, 3:16 PM, "Vinny_Abello at Dell.com" <Vinny_Abello at Dell.com>
wrote:

>Dell - Internal Use - Confidential
>
>PM3's were pretty solid. PM4's, not so much. They were often 
>problematic requiring periodic reboots of the entire chassis to keep 
>them sane even right up through the last firmware release until Lucent 
>killed them off in favor of their newly acquired Ascend equipment. The 
>team that designed them were good guys. We used to work directly with 
>them on issues and get early access to beta releases of new firmware 
>for the PM's, including new cutting edge protocols such as K56Flex and 
>later V.90. :)
>
>-Vinny
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Carlos Kamtha [mailto:kamtha at ak-labs.net]
>Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2013 3:05 AM
>To: sam at circlenet.us
>Cc: nanog at nanog.org
>Subject: Re: do ISPs keep track of end-user IP changes within thier 
>network?
>
>
>The PMs were fantastic.
>
>PM3's were pretty good as well. 2 PRIs or T1s.. 48 56k digital modems, 
>+ ISDN support.. :)
>
>Carlos. 
>
>On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 05:21:18PM -0500, Sam Moats wrote:
>> I still have a soft spot for the Portmasters :-). We had rows of 
>> PM2's with US robotics 33.6K sportster modems attached on 8mm tape racks.
>> Back when a town of 40K people could all connect through 2XT1's and 
>> everyone was happy.
>> Sam Moats
>> 
>> On 2013-12-13 16:59, Jon Lewis wrote:
>

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