[geeks] Common IP lease?

[Shawn Wallbridge]

This was definitely SHAW'S equipment. He was interviewing as a Solaris Admin
for SHAW! This was less than a month ago, so they are definitely still using
Sun's.

But you are correct that that doesn't mean they are using Sun's for DHCP.
But with all the Sun gear they have, it would seem kind of silly to use Sun
for 95% of your systems and NT for one service (not that it couldn't
happen).

shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
Of Greg A. Woods
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 2:27 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: RE: [geeks] Common IP lease?


[ On Monday, April 1, 2002 at 13:34:48 (-0600), Shawn Wallbridge wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: [geeks] Common IP lease?
>
> I know for a fact that Shaw uses Solaris. My friend was just at their
> datacenter in Calgary and they had TONS of Sun gear. To quote him...
"Their
> were Enterprise 4500's, SunFire 6800's and Cisco 6509's everywhere".

That means nothing.  Unless someone pointed your friend at a Sun server
and told him or her explicitly that "This is the DHCP server for your
cable modem.", you can only guess.

There's been a lot of change since @Home's demise.

Once upon a time @Home would ship cabinets full of Sun gear to the Shaw
and Rogers head ends and tell them to plug it in in a managed
environment, and then the stuff was all run from California.  The mail
servers for @Home Shaw customer's in the Greater Toronto Area used to
sit up in the machine room at Shaw's cable head end and CO in Richmond
Hill, for example.  It is/was two big cabinets stuffed full of
StorageArray shelves and an E450 in the bottom of each.

In Calgary there's probably also some sharing of floor space between the
Group Telecom gear (nee Fiberlink) and the Shaw Cable gear (I haven't
actually been to Shaw's head end in Calgary for nearly 20 years :-).  GT
runs a lot of big sun servers in Calgary (and some in Richmond Hill, and
no doubt more elsewhere), but as far as I know GT doesn't run the DHCP
servers for Shaw Cable's cable modems in Calgary (or Toronto).

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