[HN Gopher] Once upon a time long ago, I was sitting alone in th...
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       Once upon a time long ago, I was sitting alone in the UCLA ARPANET
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       Author : daneel_w
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2022-12-28 19:45 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)
        
       | walrus01 wrote:
       | These days most anything that would serve a role as a core router
       | at a mid to large sized ASN will be powered from a huge battery
       | bank and -48VDC rectifier system. You can easily have 400-800Gbps
       | of traffic going through one box.
        
       | danielodievich wrote:
       | Once upon a time when I was really really green we had this
       | little lab datacenter, just a room full of machines, and the lab
       | manager guy, crazy dude that I was a bit afraid of, handed me his
       | pager for the weekend, I guess he had to be gone. I didn't really
       | get this whole on-call thing back then, and so I shoved it into
       | backpack and forgot about it. Well, there was a windstorm, so
       | Sunday evening I check it, and there is a sequence of 24 messages
       | from the UPS "power lost, shutting down server X#", with a gap of
       | a few hours, then 23 messages from UPS "power reappeared, booting
       | up server X#". As I said, I didn't really get this whole on-call
       | thing so I ignored it until Monday when I manually booted server
       | X24. Nobody noticed. Glad it wasn't that important...
        
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