gEDA-user: OT: FPGAs, SDSL, Ronjas...

[Dave McGuire]

On Nov 2, 2006, at 4:35 PM, Michael Sokolov wrote:
>> When the ISP detects this,
>
> Do you think that ISPs have nothing better to do than go into the low
> level debug features of their DSLAMs, look at individual packets in  
> hex
> etc. to detect that I started using a different implementation of  
> their
> line management protocol?

   Further, very few ISPs actually employ anyone with half a clue  
anymore anyway.  Trivial matters such as making DNS entries is beyond  
most ISPs' staff these days.

   This must be a sign of the apocalypse.  I am agreeing with Michael  
Sokolov.

> As for the relic Copper Mountain DSLAMs, I've just bought one on eBay
> and am now waiting for the UPS man.

   Those "relics" are deployed by the dozen all over the country.  I  
am currently responsible for two of them myself.  Be prepared...the  
user interface is...erm, obtuse.

                    -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL