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To: James A. Shankland who wrote (54466)9/19/1998 9:26:00 AM
From: Sanjay Cherian  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 61433
 
Many of these devices have time of day chips in them that are used for keeping absolute time and several of these are Y2K problematic. While this does not necessarily affect packet forwarding, it can make for some interesting bills generated to customers :)

-Sanjay



To: James A. Shankland who wrote (54466)9/19/1998 9:33:00 PM
From: Jack Whitley  Respond to of 61433
 
<<How exactly will a bridge, hub, switch, laser pump, or even router fail come Y2K, even if they do decide it's 1900?

"I'm sorry, I refuse to route packets, it's 1900 and the Internet hasn't even been invented yet."

Seriously, most of these devices don't have big Y2K problems. Among other things, not a lot of COBOL code in routers.>>

Good luck with your investments James.

jww


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