PhoenixDSL/Telocity/Megapath

Mon Feb 5 20:24:07 UTC 2001

Why is someone's DSL line being discussed on NANOG?

andy

On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Robert L. Harris wrote:

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> 
> Nope.  He's got an external adapter that has eth out.  He can ping up
> to his gateway with both boxes, but not the next box.  
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> 
> Thus spake Jason Lewis (jlewis at jasonlewis.net):
> 
> > Sounds fishy to me.....
> > 
> > Is the line somehow tied to his MAC?
> > 
> > jas
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> > Robert L. Harris
> > Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 8:54 PM
> > To: nanog at merit.edu
> > Subject: PhoenixDSL/Telocity/Megapath
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Just got some news that in a neat twist of sales between PheonixDSL,
> > Telocity and Megapath, anyone originally on Pheonix's line will be without
> > support.  A friend of mine in the mean time tried to hook up a new firewall
> > and can't get past his gateway, but can ping the gateway.  The windows
> > box originally installed works fine though.  Someone at Level 1 customer
> > support says "yeah something's wrong" and he won't be able to do anything
> > until he gets a new Telocity DSL router for his DSL.  This of course
> > will take 3 weeks to ship.
> > 
> > This sound normal? Does the person on the other end of the phone have a
> > clue? (i.e. Anyone at Telocity/Megapath know the truth of what's going
> > on with them? ) I have some customers using them for small businesses.
> > 
> > No, cablemodems and other dsl systems aren't available where he is right
> > now.
> > 
> > Robert
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > :wq!
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Robert L. Harris                |  Micros~1 :  
> > Senior System Engineer          |    For when quality, reliability 
> >   at RnD Consulting             |      and security just aren't
> >                                 \_       that important!
> > DISCLAIMER:
> >       These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
> > FYI:
> >  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
> 
> 
> 
> :wq!
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Robert L. Harris                |  Micros~1 :  
> Senior System Engineer          |    For when quality, reliability 
>   at RnD Consulting             |      and security just aren't
>                                 \_       that important!
> DISCLAIMER:
>       These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
> FYI:
>  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
> 
> 