February 1995

Ray; Thanks for the informative reply. I've been away from the office for a couple of days...Sorry for this tardy response. > >The Total Control DOS based package is where we get the ability to terminate >a connection. Cisco keeps promissing it (we use 1 ASM with 112 ports, >1 2511 Comm Server (replacement for the CS516s) and one borrowed CS516.) >It always seems strange that ciscos can do the idle timeout but they can't >do an absolute time out. Though I did not mention this in my prior description, we too use USR racks with Total Control. We're very happy with the present implementation though I'm curious how you drop connections via TC. Our users are almost all connecting with SLIP which gets around setting the tx/rx inactivity timer for the modem serial port. >We've complained about it numerous times, if you want to join the complaints >it would probably be great. I'm sure it's an in-demand feature that most >Universities and anyone providing Dial-in services could really take >advantage of. Also I believe there may be other Comm_servers (possibly >DEC or Xyplex) that have this ability, makes you think of changing! We've hammered Cisco about this also. We have had some luck with other requests so I guess we'll continue to bring this issue up. Thank you again for your assistance in this matter. Paul Rondina Network Services CIS (401) 863-7403 paul_rondina@brown.edu From POP3server Sat Jun 9 21:21:36 GMT 1995 Return-Path: <listmgr@mailbox.syr.edu> Received: from forbin.syr.edu by mailbox.syr.edu (8.6.9/SUM-V8-1.0) id QAA20228; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 16:54:05 -0400 Received: by forbin.syr.edu (5.x/Spike-2.0) id AA06400; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 16:53:46 -0400