labelled #[other number]
Bell: Please describe for me why you think it is down.
Avi: Because it is dead. it is down. it is not functioning
Bell: No, no, it's uh, it's resting
Avi: Look matey, I know a dead T1 when I see it, and I'm looking at one
right now.
Bell: No no it's not dead, it's, it's restin'! Remarkable line, the T1,
idn'it, ay? Beautiful bits!
Avi: The bits don't enter into it. It's stone dead.
Bell: Nonononono, no, no. It's resting.
Avi: All right then, if it's resting, I'll wake it up.[Yells into wall
socket]
ELLO, MISTER TELLY T1!
Bell: See- it's working!
Avi: No it isn't- that was you.
Bell: I never!
Avi: Yes, you did!
Bell: I never did anything.
Avi: [Pulls wire out of socket and beats it against the side of the server.]
'Ello Mister T1 !!!! TESTING TESTING TESTING! This is your 9 o'clock cron
job download!
[Watches bits physically falling on floor]
Now that's what I call a dead T1!
Bell: No, no, you stunned it.
Avi: STUNNED!?
Bell: Yeah- you stunned it just as it was starting to accept packets. T1s
stun easily, major.
Avi: Um, now look mate. I've had enough of this. This T1 is definitely
deceased, and when we hooked it up not more than a day ago, you assured me
that its total inability to transmit was due to it being tired and shagged
out after trying to pull across all of
alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.really.really.nasty last night.
Bell: Well, it's , ah, it's just pining for the ARPANET.
Avi: PINING FOR THE ARPANET?!? What kind of talk is that? Look, why did it
drop every packet as soon as we plugged it into this Sparc?
Bell: The T1 prefers to drop packets from a Sparc. Remarkable line, isn't
it. Lovely bits.
Avi: Look, I took the liberty of dissassembling the smartjack last night,
and found that the only reason that it looked like it was working it because
you'd wired the lights to a battery.
Bell: Well, of course. If we hadn't, it might have burned the whole
smartjack out-VOOM VOOM!
Avi: VOOM? Mate, this line wouldn't voom if you put four million volts
through it. It's bleeding demised!
Bell: No, no, it's pining.
Avi: It's not pining, it's passed on! This line is not working! It has
ceased to transmit! Bereft of data, it lies in peace. If you hadn't wired
the lights it would have been recycled. It carries 0MB/sec! It's no longer
functional- it's shuffled off the backbone and gone to meet its maker. THIS
IS AN EX-T1!
Bell: Well, we better fix it then. 'Fraid we're all out of working
T1s.
Avi: I see, I see. I get the picture
Bell: I've got an AOL disk and a 2400 baud modem.
Avi: Pray, does it work?
Bell: Nnnnot really...
Thank You,
Robert Fowler
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