[ih] Yet another subject change: Testing (Was Re: Gateway Issue: Certification (was Re: booting linux on a 4004))

[Barbara Denny]

 The minilogger (hope my memory is correct for the name) was invaluable to me for understanding  what might be going on in the packet radio network. It was basically packet dumping to a printer. Unfortunately it couldn't run all the time because of performance issues but at least it gave me clue when I tried replicate problems after a station crash or try to understand what was causing a problem.
barbara
    On Thursday, October 3, 2024 at 06:28:54 PM PDT, Dave Crocker via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:  
 
 On 10/3/2024 6:21 PM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history wrote:
> But an Operator, or IMP programmer, could look back at the paper logs 
> and often discover an imminent problem, or see the events which led up 
> to a reported problem to be fixed. 

I heard a story that in the early days, NOC folk would see an increasing 
rate of errors on a link, contact the relevant phone company -- not all 
were AT&T -- and tell them that that line was about to fail.  The phone 
folk reportedly had no experience with a customer's offering such 
predictions and were initially dismissive.  I was told that that 
attitude changed quickly...

d/

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