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

Tue Dec 17 14:56:15 UTC 2013

That's the day we decided we needed better edge routers :-).. I watch a 
modem pool infected with code red melt a cisco 3640. Had to throw a 
Linux box in it's place while I waited for Cisco equipment.
Sam Moats

On 2013-12-17 09:54, Blake Dunlap wrote:
> All I remember from the TNT days is the meltdown when Code Red 
> happened.
> Why exactly an access platform should melt down when a worm occurs 
> still
> bothers me.
>
> -Blake
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 8:44 AM, <Vinny_Abello at dell.com> wrote:
>
>> Dell - Internal Use - Confidential
>>
>> I personally never ran the Ascend gear (outside of a setting up a
>> customer's Ascend Superpipe 95 dual ISDN router one time), but I 
>> heard that
>> the TNT gear doubled as space heaters. I remember one facility we 
>> were in
>> that had a catastrophic cooling failure and the temperatures went to 
>> insane
>> levels. Our PM3's happily kept running and never had an issue where 
>> I heard
>> every TNT box in the facility kept rebooting and crashing.
>>
>> -Vinny
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Nick Hilliard [mailto:nick at foobar.org]
>> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 4:22 PM
>> To: Paul Stewart
>> Cc: nanog at nanog.org
>> Subject: Re: do ISPs keep track of end-user IP changes within thier
>> network?
>>
>> On 16/12/2013 21:09, Paul Stewart wrote:
>> > 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!
>>
>> "Exciting" was just the word for Ascends.  In the mid 90s, I cured 
>> lots of
>> this excitement by putting my ascends on a socket timer which 
>> physically
>> rebooted them a couple of times daily.  The support load dropped off
>> substantially due to that.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>