On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 15:48 -0700, Colin Anderson wrote: > >The cost saving of being able to pin-point a cabling/NIC/bandwidth > >problem down to the port on the switch easily and quickly is wonderful > > We also use 3com NJ-200's which is a 4 port switch in a wall plate that has > SNMP and other goodies. I can troubleshoot down to the wall plate, anywhere > in the world. Last year I was on holidays in Vancouver (1000K away from the > office) and I got the call that an exec couldn't plug his laptop into the > wall, no signal, and he was pissed. I whip out my laptop, walk across the > street to Starbucks, got a wifi signal, VPN in, I check it out - nope, it's > your stupid laptop, PHB-boy. Turns out he disabled the onboard NIC. That > single incident, to me justifies the whole expense of a good infrastructure > (and to the PHB too - he was spooked that I could do that) > _______________________________________________
I used to have VNC and TopgunSSH on my Palm and an Infred connection to my mobile and from there on to the internet.... _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
