Subject:(usr-tc) Second PRI problems From: James Wilson <james@cruxnet.com> Date: 1998-06-15 16:10:57
We just got our second pri installed and the phone company, ICG, is telling
us that they "could not loop up to the CSU." They said when they take the
loopback down, the get a clear signal, but cannot loop up to the CSU, and
told us to contact our phone vendor. Now the primary PRI works just fine.
When we have 23 calls into the hub, we get a all circuits are busy error.
The second PRI is configured identical to the primary. Is there something
that I am missing, or do we have a bad card?
James Wilson
CruxNET Inc.
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) ICMP From: Andres Kroonmaa <andre@ml.ee> Date: 1998-06-28 20:09:48
On 1 Jul 98, at 20:43, Brian <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com> wrote:
> of course it does. It looks at the IP, the ip is *NOT* in its routing
> table, so it sends the redirect, like a good host should.
>
> What the problem is, is this: if its assigned an ip pool of
> 208.214.44.0/24, why the hell doesnt it add a route for that network into
> its tables letting itself know it handles this network? it sends OUT
> routing information about that pool, but it doesnt add it to its own
> tables! so your going to get icmp_redirect golore.
/24 route for a pool is like route summarisation. Its for annoucments only.
The real routing behind that is determined by the status of interfaces,
I think. To have a route in your routing table, you have to have a TARGET,
interface or gateway. Ciscos have fictious interface Null where you can
route summarys. If you have no such target, you must decide in 1 mSec
what to do with a packet coming in. Dropping it without any icmp notice
is bad, sending icmp unreachable may be bad, its a delicate situation ;)
NAS vendors tend to avoid responsibility by redirecting packet to default
gateway...
Route with target gateway of itself is meaningless I'm afraid. And if
netservers do exactly that, then you are happy with missing icmp redirects,
but all those pingpongs can actually happen inside netserver, burning its
cpu and wasting its buffer memory.
> > In fact, any NAS has trouble when it gets packet to a destination that
> > has dropped a call. What should it do with it, hold it in queue? too
> > complex, drop the packet? bad idea, as user could have came online
>
> No they don't. A netserver will look at the packet, and eventually
> timeout, but it wont act braindead and forward a packet from an ip pool it
> handles back to the default route.
After some thought forwarding packet back the default route might seem
not seem so braindead. For me, I'm more happy to see traceroute going
back to def.gw and rejected there. Then I know that interface for any
given IP is clearly down.
If NAS would hold packets "somewhere" until eventual timeout, you'd not
know if interface is down or is just having other problems.
It is also much more convenient to have icmp unreachable in response to
ping rather than timeout...
> > About your comment that it should have a route for that network in its
> > tables - this is not quite true. Any NAS, when interface owning a route
> > goes down, immediately removes that route from its active tables, this
> > is normal and expected behaviour.
>
> I can't quite remember, but on the netserver, say you had a ip pool of
> 208.214.44.0/24, didn't it make a route for that network? sure it had a
> bunch of /32's also for the hosts, but there was one aggregate route for
/24 is summary, its for annoucements only. real routing is done per /32
unless /24 is static routed to dev null.
> the pool also, or am I mistaken ( i cant remember). I know for a fact
> netsrevers do not send redirects for ip pools they handle.
Tell you what, I have 2 netservers, one is sending redirects to def.gw,
the other is not. I'm looking for ways to make the other send em too,
it really helps more. I don't know right now whats different in their
confs, they run all same software, have same sized pools, etc. I noticed
their difference just now when I checked if you are right ;)
> > Although described doom situation is unlikely, 250 redirects before drop
> > is useless imho, and we here handle this by installing ip filters on
> > input interface of default router facing NAS that reject ip packets
> > _destined_ to dialup pools. This way, packets pongs only once back from
> > NAS to default gateway, then they are rejected and icmp-host-unreachable
> > is sent back to remote site.
> > So far, it has broken nothing. In a sense, this will happen also if you
> > use antispoofing filters that reject all source IPs but those from ip
> > pools to arrive on interface from NAS side.
>
> we had this discusion in the past. Its mostly harmless, just annoying.
> and like i said, krish knows how to disable this behaviour.
I for one do not want to disable this behaviour.
It looks bad, but it can be used for good.
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) scotty vs perl (SNMP) From: Mark R. Levinson <mrl@isc.upenn.edu> Date: 1998-06-29 13:56:58
Brian writes:
>Thats the thing. In scotty, it automagically references the "54" with its
>value via the mib file. The lookup table is already in the mib, so I was
>wondering if perl SNMP supported something that I just don't know how to
>do, and thats referencing the value "54" with its value in the mib.txt.
Assuming that you're using version 1.7 or later, there are a couple of
ways to tell the perl SNMP module to map integer values to their
enumerations. One way is to set UseEnums in the hash that you're passing
to the "new" method, e.g.:
$session = new SNMP::Session ( DestHost =>$nmc, Community =>$community,
UseEnums => 1 );
(This also lets you use the enumerations instead of integers in set
requests.)
-Mark-
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) scotty vs perl (SNMP) From: Mark R. Levinson <mrl@isc.upenn.edu> Date: 1998-06-29 13:56:58
Brian writes:
>Thats the thing. In scotty, it automagically references the "54" with its
>value via the mib file. The lookup table is already in the mib, so I was
>wondering if perl SNMP supported something that I just don't know how to
>do, and thats referencing the value "54" with its value in the mib.txt.
Assuming that you're using version 1.7 or later, there are a couple of
ways to tell the perl SNMP module to map integer values to their
enumerations. One way is to set UseEnums in the hash that you're passing
to the "new" method, e.g.:
$session = new SNMP::Session ( DestHost =>$nmc, Community =>$community,
UseEnums => 1 );
(This also lets you use the enumerations instead of integers in set
requests.)
-Mark-
--
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Information Systems & Computing
University of Pennsylvania mrl@isc.upenn.edu
Subject:(usr-tc) Announce: raddebug binaries From: Mike <mikemail@coredump.ae.usr.com> Date: 1998-06-29 23:10:01
In responce to a few requests, have compiled my RADIUS debug tool under
Solaris, Linux, and DOS/Win32.
Solaris and Linux are static, DOS/Win32 uses Cygwin32.
As always, available at http://coredump.ae.usr.com/raddebug
Mike Wronski (mike@coredump.ae.usr.com) !
3Com Network Systems Engineer / Beta Engineer <!>
PGP KEY - http://coredump.ae.usr.com/pgp !
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Trumpet winsock and Mac From: Tatai SV Krishnan <tkrishna@bubba.ae.usr.com> Date: 1998-06-30 19:45:15
Win31 Turmpet Winsock and Mac - unless you are using the latest trumpet
which can recongnize the lcp frames - expects to see the ip address after
connecting. Something like this
PPP session from 207.24.79.202 to 207.24.79.15 beginning
In order to get this behaviour from HiPer arc do the following
make sure that you have IP pool
and then enable hint assigned
enable autheNTICATION hINT_ASSIGNED
and then the default PPP message is the one shown above - you can change
it to what ever you need by using the command
set ppp session_start_message " To what ever you want "
The key words in this message are %client_ip and %server_ip
This will solve your win turmpet problem.
regards
krish
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On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Lee Kuo wrote:
>
> We have a few customers running win 3.1 with trumpet and Mac. They have
> problems to connect to our HiperArc. The problem seems right after the
> username is sent and the modem hangs up.
> Does anyone have the same problem(PAP)? Thanks.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> dldaniel 028:pm3 208.130.151.133 Tue Jun 30 17:45 - 18:10 (00:24)
> dldaniel 016:hiperarc Tue Jun 30 17:44 - 17:44 (00:00)
> dldaniel 019:hiperarc Mon Jun 29 21:40 - 21:40 (00:00)
> dldaniel 003:hiperarc Mon Jun 29 21:32 - 21:32 (00:00)
> dldaniel 016:hiperarc Mon Jun 29 21:30 - 21:30 (00:00)
> dldaniel 019:hiperarc Mon Jun 29 20:29 - 20:29 (00:00)
> dldaniel 006:hiperarc Mon Jun 29 20:25 - 20:25 (00:00)
> dldaniel 002:pm2 208.130.151.62 Thu Jun 25 22:01 - 22:10 (00:09)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Trumpet winsock and Mac From: Tatai SV Krishnan <tkrishna@bubba.ae.usr.com> Date: 1998-06-30 19:48:57
Win95 should never have this problem - Unless and untill
a. the user is requesting protocols that are not supported ( IPX and
netbios )
b. the user is not using the correct username/password
In the case a. if the user is requesting IPX and nebios - these protocols
will get a NAC and it should work - unless the client keeps on requesting
this and then get a reject and gets droped.
krish
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On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, G. Owens wrote:
> Since upgrading to the Hiperarc we to have experienced the same sort of
> problems with a few of our Win95 users. ...Gets to verifying user name and
> password and then disconnects them and gives a can't establish protocol
> message. One user is using a 56k X2 type modem in a new Packard Bell PC. She
> will connect maybe 1 in 6 tries...Yet to find the cause, any suggestions?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Kuo <lee@cosmo.mitec.net>
> To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com>
> Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 6:22 PM
> Subject: (usr-tc) Trumpet winsock and Mac
>
>
> >
> >We have a few customers running win 3.1 with trumpet and Mac. They have
> >problems to connect to our HiperArc. The problem seems right after the
> >username is sent and the modem hangs up.
> >Does anyone have the same problem(PAP)? Thanks.
> >
> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >dldaniel 028:pm3 208.130.151.133 Tue Jun 30 17:45 - 18:10 (00:24)
> >dldaniel 016:hiperarc Tue Jun 30 17:44 - 17:44 (00:00)
> >dldaniel 019:hiperarc Mon Jun 29 21:40 - 21:40 (00:00)
> >dldaniel 003:hiperarc Mon Jun 29 21:32 - 21:32 (00:00)
> >dldaniel 016:hiperarc Mon Jun 29 21:30 - 21:30 (00:00)
> >dldaniel 019:hiperarc Mon Jun 29 20:29 - 20:29 (00:00)
> >dldaniel 006:hiperarc Mon Jun 29 20:25 - 20:25 (00:00)
> >dldaniel 002:pm2 208.130.151.62 Thu Jun 25 22:01 - 22:10 (00:09)
> >-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Quads and the serial port on the nic. From: Tatai SV Krishnan <tkrishna@bubba.ae.usr.com> Date: 1998-07-01 01:55:31
On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Terry Kennedy wrote:
>
> How does one set the the quads to talk to the serial port instaead of the
> netserver?
> found the setting for the line interface to use pots lines instaed of the T1
> card, but
> the calls will routed to the netserver at this point. Where is the setting
> to use the external
> serial port? Is in the line interface settings, I've looked but don't see
> it. Just missing
> something I would imagine.
>
You can do this via the tcm or via the attaching a RS232 cable to the modem
The easy way out
set the modem inactive on the packet bus
go to TCM and Programmed-settings-DTE interface - set it to 0
Programmed-Setttings-CallControl Options - set packetbus answer only to
disable
krish
> Thanks to anyone who can help.....
>
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) scotty vs perl (SNMP) From: Mike Andrews <mandrews@termfrost.org> Date: 1998-07-01 09:27:43
This is what I do... His code's pretty easy to use (at least once I wrote
a small set of subroutines around it) and we'd rather not parse the MIB
every time -- takes too long. Besides, we were already using MRTG anyway.
I've been meaning to put some of my code online but haven't gotten around
to it yet. Maybe today...
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Senior Systems/Network Administrator --- mandrews@termfrost.org
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On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> Have a look at the perl snmp package from MRTG aka
> simon@switch.ch .. Somwhere on ftp.switch.ch
>
> http://www.switch.ch/misc/leinen/snmp/perl/index.html
>
> This package does NOT include a mib parser which IMHO should
> not be done in run time of the originial program as this
> consumes MUCH cpu horsepower. This package is flexible, *very* fast
> and easy to use, and you just have to submit a hash
> of "name" to iso notation mapping. There are good examples
> in the package.
Subject:(usr-tc) Quads and the serial port on the nic. From: Terry Kennedy <terry@olypen.com> Date: 1998-07-01 11:02:21
How does one set the the quads to talk to the serial port instaead of the
netserver?
found the setting for the line interface to use pots lines instaed of the T1
card, but
the calls will routed to the netserver at this point. Where is the setting
to use the external
serial port? Is in the line interface settings, I've looked but don't see
it. Just missing
something I would imagine.
Thanks to anyone who can help.....
Subject:(usr-tc) ADSL Line Card Configuration From: Ayan George <ayan@datasys.net> Date: 1998-07-01 11:46:16
Would anyone be kind enough to explain what the dwn_constellation and
up_constellation settings are and how they and the baud_rate effect
overall throughput?
The manuals don't seem to cover this.
-Ayan
Subject:(usr-tc) Long Distance ISDN issues From: Steve Shepherd <steven@gate.net> Date: 1998-07-01 11:53:19
We have a POP on the west coast of Florida using the same telco, but of
course in a different LATA. The only way we can obtain an ISDN connection
long distance is to force connection @ 56k AND to set NetBEUI to ON, on the
Windows95 DUN. Weird, huh? Ideas?
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Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 1998 11:46 AM
Would anyone be kind enough to explain what the dwn_constellation and
up_constellation settings are and how they and the baud_rate effect
overall throughput?
The manuals don't seem to cover this.
-Ayan
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Subject:(usr-tc) Cache route-map? From: Pete Ashdown <pashdown@xmission.com> Date: 1998-07-01 12:29:22
I was looking around for that route-map example you sent me for redirecting
web requests to a proxy, but I can't find it. Could you dig it out for me
again?
Pete Ashdown said once upon a time:
>
>I was looking around for that route-map example you sent me for redirecting
>web requests to a proxy, but I can't find it. Could you dig it out for me
>again?
My apologies for sending this to the list. It was intended for Brian at
Shrevenet.
Subject:(usr-tc) Extending local area phone service From: Greg Coffey <greg@coffey.com> Date: 1998-07-01 13:02:09
I have had some people from smaller towns approaching me about furnishing
local dialup access. They are too small to setup anything and make money,
just not enough people in the local area. Most are serviced by independent
phone companies. I've seen where some telcos have extended local dialup
beyond their normal boundaries for modem calls. I know that Sprint did it
in the Nebraska panhandle and have seen a few others. I have discussed
this with a couple of the independent telco companies with no success so
far. I have a town setup in one area serviced by an independent now and
they have another 5-6 towns spread around the state that they service.
None of the others has any local internet access. Any of you had any
success with this? Is there a magic phrase or desciption that will work?
All I get is silence and stuttering on the other end of the line. I have a
couple of towns after me again this week, they are in the pop range of
100-300 people. This may not be the proper forum for this but its been
kind of slow here lately. 8-)
Thanks,
Greg Coffey, CoffeyNet Voice 307-234-5443 307-234-5446 Fax
=====================================================================
142 S. Center St. 3Com/USR v.90 56k $20 in Casper & Douglas
Casper, WY 82601 Local Internet for Casper, Rawlins, Douglas,
www.coffey.com Wheatland, Pinedale, Lander & Lusk, WY
Which are the options to use V.90 conections over Leased Lines?
- Marcelo
Subject:(usr-tc) Super-netmask for locations? From: Martin Oberle <oberle@ima.uni-stuttgart.de> Date: 1998-07-01 15:07:33
Hi.
Are Supernetmasks supported for dial on_demand locations on
a netserver?
for example
add netmask 192.168.8.0 255.255.253.0
-> network 192.168.8-0 to 192.168.11.254
set loc test netmask 255.255.253.0
set loc test address 192.168.10.254 -> address of router to dial to
So the netserver should dial for every packet in the range from 192.168.8-0
to 192.168.11.254 ?
Thanks
Martin Oberle
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> Pete Ashdown said once upon a time:
> >
> >I was looking around for that route-map example you sent me for redirecting
> >web requests to a proxy, but I can't find it. Could you dig it out for me
> >again?
>
> My apologies for sending this to the list. It was intended for Brian at
> Shrevenet.
Actually, if it's possible to redirect port 80 queries to a proxy, we'd
probably all be interested in knowing how.
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Extending local area phone service From: G. Owens <gowens@seark.net> Date: 1998-07-01 20:17:21
We are in the same situation 4 small phone systems and then SWB in our town.
Our user that are in our lad ask for what is called a "calling circle" plan
where they can dial our town unlimited number of times for a flat rate of
about $15.00 Mo. Depending on how far away, some can call all over our city
for the $15 other telcos only allow 1 number to be dialed. We even have one
user that lives over a 100 miles away but since they are in the same lad as
us she only pays the flat rate. Hopes this helps
-----Original Message-----
>I have had some people from smaller towns approaching me about furnishing
>local dialup access. They are too small to setup anything and make money,
>just not enough people in the local area. Most are serviced by independent
>phone companies. I've seen where some telcos have extended local dialup
>beyond their normal boundaries for modem calls. I know that Sprint did it
>in the Nebraska panhandle and have seen a few others. I have discussed
>this with a couple of the independent telco companies with no success so
>far. I have a town setup in one area serviced by an independent now and
>they have another 5-6 towns spread around the state that they service.
>None of the others has any local internet access. Any of you had any
>success with this? Is there a magic phrase or desciption that will work?
>All I get is silence and stuttering on the other end of the line. I have a
>couple of towns after me again this week, they are in the pop range of
>100-300 people. This may not be the proper forum for this but its been
>kind of slow here lately. 8-)
>
>
>
>Thanks,
>Greg Coffey, CoffeyNet Voice 307-234-5443 307-234-5446 Fax
>=====================================================================
> 142 S. Center St. 3Com/USR v.90 56k $20 in Casper & Douglas
>Casper, WY 82601 Local Internet for Casper, Rawlins, Douglas,
> www.coffey.com Wheatland, Pinedale, Lander & Lusk, WY
>
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) USR Racks with bunches of ISDN From: Tatai SV Krishnan <tkrishna@bubba.ae.usr.com> Date: 1998-07-01 20:34:18
No, The hiper arc does not terminate the isdn calls - it requires either
a Quad modem or a HDM. You have to use the pri cards with the quads
else use a hdm
krish
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On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Robert Adams wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Anyone know if it's possible to do the following? Just thought it would be a
> great way of offering a LOT of ISDN only.
>
>
> Enterprise Chassis
> 5 or more Dual PRI Cards
> 1 HyperARC
> 2 70Amp Power
>
>
> -Jason
>
>
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) ICMP From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-01 20:43:27
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Andres Kroonmaa wrote:
> On 27 Jun 98, at 11:41, Brian <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Lee Kuo wrote:
> > >
> > > After installed hiperarc, we keep getting the following messages.
> > > can anyone help? Thanks.
> > > ------
> > > Jun 27 00:02:43 machine kernel: ICMP redirect from 208.130.151.14
> > > Jun 27 00:02:43 machine last message repeated 30 times
> > > Jun 27 00:04:43 machine last message repeated 31 times
> > > Jun 27 00:06:43 machine kernel: ICMP redirect from 208.130.151.14
> > > Jun 27 00:06:43 machine last message repeated 30 times
> > > Jun 27 00:08:43 machine last message repeated 31 times
> >
> > The HiperARC has a brian dead way of handling redirects.
> >
> > If a user is on a IP address, handled by the ARC, and that user hangs up
> > during some sort of activity. The ARC frees the IP address, but traffic
> > still tries to reach the IP. The arc says "I don't know where this guy is
> > and sends a redirect.
> >
> > If the arc is assigned ip pool 208.214.44.0/24 for example, and a user on
> > 208.214.45.5 hangs up in the middle of doing something, all packets still
> > trying to reach 208.214.45.5 are going to be redirected. Why? I have no
> > idea, because the arc should not redirect anywheres, since there should be
> > a route for that network in its tables pointing to itself.
> >
> > This has driven me nuts for months. I sent emails on it, detailing how
> > the netserver does *not* behave like this (if a ip hangs up on a
> > netserver, no redirects are sent).
>
> You mean, ARC sends _icmp_-redirect??? to whom? to default gateway?
> huh, funny, although harmless I guess...
of course it does. It looks at the IP, the ip is *NOT* in its routing
table, so it sends the redirect, like a good host should.
What the problem is, is this: if its assigned an ip pool of
208.214.44.0/24, why the hell doesnt it add a route for that network into
its tables letting itself know it handles this network? it sends OUT
routing information about that pool, but it doesnt add it to its own
tables! so your going to get icmp_redirect golore.
> If it just forwards packets to default gateway, then this is not only
> usr/3com problem, and it is even hard to believe that netserver does
> not do that. I'd guess that syslog message is misleading, that actually
> there was ip forward not icmp redirect happening.
>
O it gets better than that:
arc looks at routing table
arc sees ip is not in table (but why the hell not, its part of its ip pool)
arc sends redirect to router (default gateway)
default gateway says "huh? i show a route for this network pointing to the
arc!" it send the packet BACK to the arc, and thus a series of ping
ponging continues until infinity is reached.
> In fact, any NAS has trouble when it gets packet to a destination that
> has dropped a call. What should it do with it, hold it in queue? too
> complex, drop the packet? bad idea, as user could have came online
No they don't. A netserver will look at the packet, and eventually
timeout, but it wont act braindead and forward a packet from an ip pool it
handles back to the default route.
there is actually a way to disable this braindead behavior, perhaps krish
can comment. He told me of a way to do it in the past, but in the
particular version of arc code we were running, it crashed the arc, but
perhaps this is fixed.
> on another NAS nearby, so it is wise to forward packet to "smart"
> gateway, default. If that "smart" occurs to be as "dumb" as NAS,
> then they continue to play ping-pong until ip-packet's TTL reaches 0,
> then packet is dropped with "source-quench".
> Bad news is that with default TTL of 255 every packet destined to dead
> dialin host takes about 250 fast ping-pongs before going to trash, just
> wasting both local bandwidth and burning cpu uselessly.
>
bingo! why does it act this way by default? you got me, I hate seeing all
those damn redirect messages on my console though.
> About your comment that it should have a route for that network in its
> tables - this is not quite true. Any NAS, when interface owning a route
> goes down, immediately removes that route from its active tables, this
> is normal and expected behaviour.
I can't quite remember, but on the netserver, say you had a ip pool of
208.214.44.0/24, didn't it make a route for that network? sure it had a
bunch of /32's also for the hosts, but there was one aggregate route for
the pool also, or am I mistaken ( i cant remember). I know for a fact
netsrevers do not send redirects for ip pools they handle.
>
> Although pretty harmless, you can get real trouble when a bunch of calls
> drop from NAS that all had download activity. Consider: 1500 byte packet,
> traversing 250 times local lan, wastes 366KBytes. suppose a full E1 trunk
> dying with 30 sessions going down, on average 2 tcp open sessions per
> modem, and allow 1-2 retry packets from remote site before it realises
> that session is broken. We'd get 250x2x30x2 ~= 30000 packets spike, in
> worst case all 1500 byte packets, wasting 45MB of bandwidth in a short
> time. Too bad if the link is serial, not 100baseT lan.
>
no
> Although described doom situation is unlikely, 250 redirects before drop
> is useless imho, and we here handle this by installing ip filters on
> input interface of default router facing NAS that reject ip packets
> _destined_ to dialup pools. This way, packets pongs only once back from
> NAS to default gateway, then they are rejected and icmp-host-unreachable
> is sent back to remote site.
> So far, it has broken nothing. In a sense, this will happen also if you
> use antispoofing filters that reject all source IPs but those from ip
> pools to arrive on interface from NAS side.
>
we had this discusion in the past. Its mostly harmless, just annoying.
and like i said, krish knows how to disable this behaviour.
Brian
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) scotty vs perl (SNMP) From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-01 20:48:34
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Mark R. Levinson wrote:
> Brian writes:
>
> >Thats the thing. In scotty, it automagically references the "54" with its
> >value via the mib file. The lookup table is already in the mib, so I was
> >wondering if perl SNMP supported something that I just don't know how to
> >do, and thats referencing the value "54" with its value in the mib.txt.
>
> Assuming that you're using version 1.7 or later, there are a couple of
> ways to tell the perl SNMP module to map integer values to their
> enumerations. One way is to set UseEnums in the hash that you're passing
> to the "new" method, e.g.:
>
> $session = new SNMP::Session ( DestHost =>$nmc, Community =>$community,
> UseEnums => 1 );
>
> (This also lets you use the enumerations instead of integers in set
> requests.)
Thanks alot Mark, you just saved me ALOT of time.
> -Mark-
>
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Cache route-map? From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-01 20:49:19
On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Pete Ashdown wrote:
> I was looking around for that route-map example you sent me for redirecting
> web requests to a proxy, but I can't find it. Could you dig it out for me
> again?
How to do Transparent Proxying using Linux and Cisco
<signal@shreve.net>
Here is how I have Transparent proxying working for me, in an enviroment
where my router is a Cisco 2501 running IOS 11.1, and Squid machine is
running Linux 2.0.33.
Many thanks to the following individules and the squid-users list for
helping me get redirection and transparent proxying working on my
Cisco/Linux box.
Lincoln Dale
Riccardo Vratogna
Mark White
Henrik Nordstrom
First, here is what I added to my Cisco, which is running IOS 11.1. In
IOS 11.1 the route-map command is "process switched" as opposed to the
faster "fast-switched" route-map which is found in IOS 11.2 and later.
You may wish to be running IOS 11.2. I am running 11.1, and have had no
problems with my current load of about 150 simultaneous connections to
squid.:
!
interface Ethernet0
description To Office Ethernet
ip address 208.206.76.1 255.255.255.0
no ip directed-broadcast
no ip mroute-cache
ip policy route-map proxy-redir
!
access-list 110 deny tcp host 208.206.76.44 any eq www
access-list 110 permit tcp any any eq www
route-map proxy-redir permit 10
match ip address 110
set ip next-hop 208.206.76.44
So basically from above you can see I added the "route-map" declaration,
and an access-list, and then turned the route-map on under int e0 "ip
policy route-map proxy-redir"
ok, so the Cisco is taken care of at this point. The host above:
208.206.76.44, is the ip number of my squid host.
My squid box runs Linux, so I had to do the following on it:
my kernel (2.0.33) config looks like this:
#
# Networking options
#
CONFIG_FIREWALL=y
# CONFIG_NET_ALIAS is not set
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_FORWARD=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y
# CONFIG_RST_COOKIES is not set
CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y
# CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_VERBOSE is not set
CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y
# CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_IPAUTOFW is not set
CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_ICMP=y
CONFIG_IP_TRANSPARENT_PROXY=y
CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG=y
# CONFIG_IP_ACCT is not set
CONFIG_IP_ROUTER=y
You will need Firewalling and Transparent Proxy turned on at a minimum.
Then some ipfwadm stuff:
# Accept all on loopback
ipfwadm -I -a accept -W lo
# Accept my own IP, to prevent loops (repeat for each interface/alias)
ipfwadm -I -a accept -P tcp -D 208.206.76.44 80
# Send all traffic destinated to port 80 to Squid on port 3128
ipfwadm -I -a accept -P tcp -D 0/0 80 -r 3128
it accepts packets on port 80 (redirected from the Cisco), and redirects
them to 3128 which is the port my squid process is sitting on. I put all
this in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
and the squid is configured as:
http_port 3128
icp_port 3130
httpd_accel virtual 80
httpd_accel_with_proxy on
I am using v1.1.20 of the squid with the patch at:
http://hem.passagen.se/hno/squid/squid-1.1.20.host_and_virtual.patch
installed. You will want to install this patch if using a setup similar
to mine.
This works great. Many thanks again to all of those listed above in
helping me.
Brian
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Cache route-map? From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-01 20:49:52
On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Pete Ashdown wrote:
> Pete Ashdown said once upon a time:
> >
> >I was looking around for that route-map example you sent me for redirecting
> >web requests to a proxy, but I can't find it. Could you dig it out for me
> >again?
>
> My apologies for sending this to the list. It was intended for Brian at
> Shrevenet.
damn, I double apologize, I didn't look at the reply-to and replied!
ugh!
Brian
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How dos one enable ripv2 globally over the system? Were using radius to
setup calls so there are no users on the arc database. Ive poured over
the doc for the arc and ive turned on rip routing but as far as I can
tell the only way to specify ripv2 is on a per network name basis. Any
suggestions? Also im pretty sure that everything is ripv1 right now as
sho ip network settings lists it as v1 and its listed that way in the
harm. On the radius server theres only listen-broadcast nothing about
v2
Thanks,
Ernie Pritchard
Inline Connections.
Subject:(usr-tc) USR Racks with bunches of ISDN From: Robert Adams <radams@siscom.net> Date: 1998-07-01 21:07:27
Hello all,
Anyone know if it's possible to do the following? Just thought it would be a
great way of offering a LOT of ISDN only.
Enterprise Chassis
5 or more Dual PRI Cards
1 HyperARC
2 70Amp Power
-Jason
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) USR Racks with bunches of ISDN From: Curt Shambeau <curt@execpc.com> Date: 1998-07-01 21:07:28
> Anyone know if it's possible to do the following? Just thought it would be a
> great way of offering a LOT of ISDN only.
>
>
> Enterprise Chassis
> 5 or more Dual PRI Cards
> 1 HyperARC
> 2 70Amp Power
The HiperARC card will not terminate ISDN calls - it doesn't have that
daughterboard that the netserver has.
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Quads and the serial port on the nic. From: Terry Kennedy <terry@olypen.com> Date: 1998-07-01 21:33:31
thanks Krish,
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Cc: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com>
>On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Terry Kennedy wrote:
>
>>
>> How does one set the the quads to talk to the serial port instaead of the
>> netserver?
>> found the setting for the line interface to use pots lines instaed of the
T1
>> card, but
>> the calls will routed to the netserver at this point. Where is the
setting
>> to use the external
>> serial port? Is in the line interface settings, I've looked but don't see
>> it. Just missing
>> something I would imagine.
>>
>You can do this via the tcm or via the attaching a RS232 cable to the modem
>
>The easy way out
>
>set the modem inactive on the packet bus
>go to TCM and Programmed-settings-DTE interface - set it to 0
>Programmed-Setttings-CallControl Options - set packetbus answer only to
>disable
>
>
>krish
>
>> Thanks to anyone who can help.....
>>
>>
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Subject:(usr-tc) How do I set the timezone of a HyperDSP? From: Jay Nitikman <jay@cruzio.com> Date: 1998-07-02 04:00:14
When I enable NTP on my HyperDSP the machine loads the wrong time. I
suspect that this is a timezone issue. Is there a way to set the
timezone of the router?
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) How do I set the timezone of a HyperDSP? From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-02 07:29:55
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Jay Nitikman wrote:
> When I enable NTP on my HyperDSP the machine loads the wrong time. I
> suspect that this is a timezone issue. Is there a way to set the
> timezone of the router?
no you cannot set the timezone :) It will come across as GMT regardless.
Brian
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Accounting Authenticator From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-02 07:31:43
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, JC wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to use Ascend free radius for the accounting
> of USR/TC. I notice that there are many bad authenticator
> in my logfile.
>
> Does USR implements the authenticator differently ?
>
> Or does anyone know what is the cause ?
I have no idea. But personally I would go with merit or livingston
(lucent) radius (assuming you own some livingston equipment so that your
"legal"). Also if you really want some good functionality with the USR
TC, that Radiator sounds real nice............I am thinking about going
the Radiator direction myself, I just haven't heard much about it in real
live sites and how it is doing.
Brian
>
> TIA.
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Subject:(usr-tc) USR Total Control 48 port chassis $7,500 From: Brian Wiser <brwiser@xmission.com> Date: 1998-07-02 11:45:17
Total Control Hub : 16-slot chassis
single 110v ac 70Amp power supply, fan tray,
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Asking $7,500 for above bundle.
OR separately:
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Accounting Authenticator From: Dale E. Reed Jr. <daler@iea-software.com> Date: 1998-07-02 12:15:36
JC wrote:
>
> I am trying to use Ascend free radius for the accounting
> of USR/TC. I notice that there are many bad authenticator
> in my logfile.
>
> Does USR implements the authenticator differently ?
The accounginting authenticator is a md5 hash on the secret and the entire
accounting packet (minus the authenticator field itself). This is used to
authenticate the validity of the packet. I don't know if USR is
calculating the authenticator correctly or not. RadiusNT has an option
to ignore the authenticator, since its wasn't required in the first
drafts for RADIUS accounting and not many clients actually did them
correctly.
> Or does anyone know what is the cause ?
Typically the cause of the problem is not specifying a secret or
specifying an incorrect secret for accounting requests.
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Ok well I am just getting into this SNMP stuff with perl.. I am using SNMP
support for Perl 5 by Simon Leinen <simon@switch.ch>.. Now I am not very
familiar with ASN and all that.. is there anything else I can use to help
me do this easier??
Gorkem
I've got some sample code using Simon's SNMP library at
http://www.dcr.net/~mandrews/usrtoys/
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On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Gorkem Yuksel wrote:
> Ok well I am just getting into this SNMP stuff with perl.. I am using SNMP
> support for Perl 5 by Simon Leinen <simon@switch.ch>.. Now I am not very
> familiar with ASN and all that.. is there anything else I can use to help
> me do this easier??
>
> Gorkem
>
>
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Hi,
I am trying to use Ascend free radius for the accounting
of USR/TC. I notice that there are many bad authenticator
in my logfile.
Does USR implements the authenticator differently ?
Or does anyone know what is the cause ?
TIA.
Subject:(usr-tc) session limits From: K Mitchell <mitch@keyconn.net> Date: 1998-07-02 23:29:20
I'm running a HiPer chassis/USR S&A Server and having trouble with my users
being unable to login, with the reported problem as;
[RADSERV] Failed login: username Maximum Sessions Exceeded
under an event ID of 43
The only way I can allow them to log in is to delete the account and
re-enter it as a new account. I've not set any sort of session limit, other
than 1 concurrent session. Why is it doing this, and what can I do to stop it?
TIA,
Kirk
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) session limits From: Mark R. Lindsey <mark@vielle.datasys.net> Date: 1998-07-02 23:46:40
: [RADSERV] Failed login: username Maximum Sessions Exceeded The only
: way I can allow them to log in is to delete the account and re-enter
: it as a new account. I've not set any sort of session limit, other
: than 1 concurrent session. Why is it doing this, and what can I do to
: stop it?
That *is* a session limit; it sounds as if your RADIUS Accounting server
software is not receiving or handling Stop notifications, or is not
passing them on to the authentication side.
Nonetheless, I have yet to see a published RADIUS package for the TC
system that can restrict multiple logins across multiple chassis in
spite of loss of connectivity between the servers and the NASsen,
or hard crashes, or very lossy networks. (The HARC MIB makes it
theoretically possible, however.)
You would do better to let your users on your system and do experimentation
with keeping them offline in a maintenance period (4am).
At 11:46 PM 7/2/98 -0400, you wrote:
>: [RADSERV] Failed login: username Maximum Sessions Exceeded The only
>: way I can allow them to log in is to delete the account and re-enter
>: it as a new account. I've not set any sort of session limit, other
>: than 1 concurrent session. Why is it doing this, and what can I do to
>: stop it?
>
>That *is* a session limit; it sounds as if your RADIUS Accounting server
>software is not receiving or handling Stop notifications, or is not
>passing them on to the authentication side.
I understand that the "1 concurrent session" setting is a session limit,
but S&A certainly shouldn't be calling that rule into effect for a user
that hadn't been logged on in 24 hours. Is there anything I can do to
increase the odds of S&A properly receiving Stop notifications?
>Nonetheless, I have yet to see a published RADIUS package for the TC
>system that can restrict multiple logins across multiple chassis in
>spite of loss of connectivity between the servers and the NASsen,
>or hard crashes, or very lossy networks. (The HARC MIB makes it
>theoretically possible, however.)
I only have 1 chassis, with 13 slots left to fill. Hopefully
somebody("Hello, 3Com?") will have that problem solved before it affects me :)
>You would do better to let your users on your system and do experimentation
>with keeping them offline in a maintenance period (4am).
Letting them on is my objective, not keeping them off. I don't, however,
feel that setting concurrent sessions to unlimited is the right solution.
Thanks for the reply,
Kirk
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K Mitchell was heard to say:
>I'm running a HiPer chassis/USR S&A Server and having trouble with my users
>being unable to login, with the reported problem as;
>[RADSERV] Failed login: username Maximum Sessions Exceeded
>under an event ID of 43
>The only way I can allow them to log in is to delete the account and
>re-enter it as a new account. I've not set any sort of session limit, other
>than 1 concurrent session. Why is it doing this, and what can I do to stop it?
Turn off concurrent session limiting... it doesn't work (and never has.)
--Ricky
Mark R. Lindsey was heard to say:
>That *is* a session limit; it sounds as if your RADIUS Accounting server
>software is not receiving or handling Stop notifications, or is not
>passing them on to the authentication side.
Or the NAS never sent them... the last (few) netserver code versions have
not been sending the Accounting-On message when the NAS restarts. So,
how the fsck are you supposed to know the NAS rebooted if it makes no
effort to tell you? (I _suppose_ you could check for a reset of the
ID vector, but that's even easier to break.)
>Nonetheless, I have yet to see a published RADIUS package for the TC
>system that can restrict multiple logins across multiple chassis in
>spite of loss of connectivity between the servers and the NASsen,
>or hard crashes, or very lossy networks. (The HARC MIB makes it
>theoretically possible, however.)
I had this mostly working until the aforemention code... The accounting
server updates the users table to set the number of current sessions and
the last known login location. If I detect a NAS restart (Accounting-On)
then I "update USERS set current_sessions=0 where NAS='[client id]';"
Of course, if they login twice to different chassis, then that causes
a problem... (I said it *mostly* works.) [BTW, I also chucked USR's
joke of a database schema out the window.]
--Ricky
-> K Mitchell was heard to say:
-> >I'm running a HiPer chassis/USR S&A Server and having trouble with my users
-> >being unable to login, with the reported problem as;
-> >[RADSERV] Failed login: username Maximum Sessions Exceeded
-> >under an event ID of 43
-> >The only way I can allow them to log in is to delete the account and
-> >re-enter it as a new account. I've not set any sort of session limit, other
-> >than 1 concurrent session. Why is it doing this, and what can I do to stop
-> it?
->
-> Turn off concurrent session limiting... it doesn't work (and never has.)
There are two other ways to solve this. Stop and restart the S/A server.
This clears the session counters in the USERS table. The other option
is to manually change the user's entry in the USERS table back to 0.
Jeff Binkley
ASA Network Computing
Forwarded by mikem from the Radiator mailing list:
Reply-to: pfreed@freed.com
> > I am trying to use Ascend free radius for the accounting
> > of USR/TC. I notice that there are many bad authenticator
> > in my logfile.
> >
> > Does USR implements the authenticator differently ?
Authentication is pretty standard, up to a point. Perhaps if you
shared the error messages, we could guess better. But it kind of
sounds like the message I get when I've forgotten to put tell Radius
about a particular NAS (i.e. modem bank), so every message from
that NAS is either flagged as an error or silently ignored.
> Also if you really want some good functionality with the USR
> TC, that Radiator sounds real nice............I am thinking about
going
> the Radiator direction myself, I just haven't heard much about it
in real
> live sites and how it is doing.
We've got bunches of USR TCs, and we're using Radiator. I like it
a lot. It's easy to maintain, and the author does a remarkable job
of producing new releases and incorporating users suggestions.
(Keep up the good work, Mike!) The only downside is that it chews
up more CPU than most Radius software, since it's written in Perl
and not C. On the other hand, that's also it's greatest strength:
the Perl code is easy to read and modify.
--phil
"All my life, I always wanted to be somebody.
Now I see that I should have been more specific."
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Does anyone know how to fix UDP problems that Quake2 or any other online
games use? Is there some setting's that you need to make to USR's chassis
to make thing's better.. Please Help...
Vito
Subject:(usr-tc) FAQ Time (was: UDP packets) From: Mark R. Lindsey <mark@vielle.datasys.net> Date: 1998-07-03 17:32:20
: Does anyone know how to fix UDP problems that Quake2 or any other online
: games use? Is there some setting's that you need to make to USR's chassis
: to make thing's better.. Please Help...
We've mentioned a FAQ before, but I don't remember where that thread
went. If somebody wants to compose a nice answer to this, I'll make it
the first item on my usr-tc FAQ under http://usr-tc.datasys.net/faq/
(Until then, however, that page won't exist.)
You should upgrade to the latest Quake2 (3.17 as of this moment) which
fixes some checksum problems in previous versions. A while back someone
mentioned on the list that we should pause for a moment and consider if
Quake was the problem, and not the usr-tc; well that was true to a certain
extent. It turns out that some versions of Quake2 had really inefficient
checksum code that tended to hog up the CPU and induce lag.. depending on
the speed of your machine. The developer uses a high end system for
testing and didnt catch the bug until after everyone noticed it hogging up
their slower (although quite adequate) systems.
Thats only part of it though, if at all. UDP performance seems to lack
consistency locally on the network the netserver chasis sits on, where as
traffic to the net seems to be ok or at least substantially better.
Also, netserver release 3.7.73 seems to help, though its not publicly
available so ask usr/3com about it. In fact, with the above changes I
think Quake2 netserver problems are solved for good (or am I being too
optimistic?) :>
- lv
On Fri, 3 Jul 1998 vito@aracnet.net wrote:
> Does anyone know how to fix UDP problems that Quake2 or any other online
> games use? Is there some setting's that you need to make to USR's chassis
> to make thing's better.. Please Help...
>
> Vito
>
>
>
>
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you are being to optimistic =) ... I have 3.7.73 code and quake2 gives lag
of 900MS ... Seems to happen to my boxes with 2 HiPER DSP's and the rest
quads (96 ports) ... seems like it statrs to lag when the box get's full ...
-----Original Message-----
>You should upgrade to the latest Quake2 (3.17 as of this moment) which
>fixes some checksum problems in previous versions. A while back someone
>mentioned on the list that we should pause for a moment and consider if
>Quake was the problem, and not the usr-tc; well that was true to a certain
>extent. It turns out that some versions of Quake2 had really inefficient
>checksum code that tended to hog up the CPU and induce lag.. depending on
>the speed of your machine. The developer uses a high end system for
>testing and didnt catch the bug until after everyone noticed it hogging up
>their slower (although quite adequate) systems.
>
>Thats only part of it though, if at all. UDP performance seems to lack
>consistency locally on the network the netserver chasis sits on, where as
>traffic to the net seems to be ok or at least substantially better.
>
>Also, netserver release 3.7.73 seems to help, though its not publicly
>available so ask usr/3com about it. In fact, with the above changes I
>think Quake2 netserver problems are solved for good (or am I being too
>optimistic?) :>
>
>- lv
>
>On Fri, 3 Jul 1998 vito@aracnet.net wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know how to fix UDP problems that Quake2 or any other online
>> games use? Is there some setting's that you need to make to USR's chassis
>> to make thing's better.. Please Help...
>>
>> Vito
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Ok so is there anything to fix it, and or make thing's faster in the UDP
packet area.
Thanks
Vito
On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Jamie Orzechowski wrote:
> you are being to optimistic =) ... I have 3.7.73 code and quake2 gives lag
> of 900MS ... Seems to happen to my boxes with 2 HiPER DSP's and the rest
> quads (96 ports) ... seems like it statrs to lag when the box get's full ...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laszlo Vecsey <master@internexus.net>
> To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com>
> Date: Friday, July 03, 1998 7:19 PM
> Subject: Re: (usr-tc) UDP packet's (Help Me)
>
>
> >You should upgrade to the latest Quake2 (3.17 as of this moment) which
> >fixes some checksum problems in previous versions. A while back someone
> >mentioned on the list that we should pause for a moment and consider if
> >Quake was the problem, and not the usr-tc; well that was true to a certain
> >extent. It turns out that some versions of Quake2 had really inefficient
> >checksum code that tended to hog up the CPU and induce lag.. depending on
> >the speed of your machine. The developer uses a high end system for
> >testing and didnt catch the bug until after everyone noticed it hogging up
> >their slower (although quite adequate) systems.
> >
> >Thats only part of it though, if at all. UDP performance seems to lack
> >consistency locally on the network the netserver chasis sits on, where as
> >traffic to the net seems to be ok or at least substantially better.
> >
> >Also, netserver release 3.7.73 seems to help, though its not publicly
> >available so ask usr/3com about it. In fact, with the above changes I
> >think Quake2 netserver problems are solved for good (or am I being too
> >optimistic?) :>
> >
> >- lv
> >
> >On Fri, 3 Jul 1998 vito@aracnet.net wrote:
> >
> >> Does anyone know how to fix UDP problems that Quake2 or any other online
> >> games use? Is there some setting's that you need to make to USR's chassis
> >> to make thing's better.. Please Help...
> >>
> >> Vito
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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only response I keep getting is to change to a HIPER ARC ... which is
UNACCEPTABLE! ... A NETServer has more than enough power to do it's UDP
right ... USR just needs coders with half a clue ... I say if they are
phasing our NETServers, then release the source so that people like us can
improve it instead of waiting for months for a fix from USR ...
-----Original Message-----
>Ok so is there anything to fix it, and or make thing's faster in the UDP
>packet area.
>
>Thanks
>Vito
>
>On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Jamie Orzechowski wrote:
>
>> you are being to optimistic =) ... I have 3.7.73 code and quake2 gives
lag
>> of 900MS ... Seems to happen to my boxes with 2 HiPER DSP's and the rest
>> quads (96 ports) ... seems like it statrs to lag when the box get's full
...
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Laszlo Vecsey <master@internexus.net>
>> To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com>
>> Date: Friday, July 03, 1998 7:19 PM
>> Subject: Re: (usr-tc) UDP packet's (Help Me)
>>
>>
>> >You should upgrade to the latest Quake2 (3.17 as of this moment) which
>> >fixes some checksum problems in previous versions. A while back someone
>> >mentioned on the list that we should pause for a moment and consider if
>> >Quake was the problem, and not the usr-tc; well that was true to a
certain
>> >extent. It turns out that some versions of Quake2 had really inefficient
>> >checksum code that tended to hog up the CPU and induce lag.. depending
on
>> >the speed of your machine. The developer uses a high end system for
>> >testing and didnt catch the bug until after everyone noticed it hogging
up
>> >their slower (although quite adequate) systems.
>> >
>> >Thats only part of it though, if at all. UDP performance seems to lack
>> >consistency locally on the network the netserver chasis sits on, where
as
>> >traffic to the net seems to be ok or at least substantially better.
>> >
>> >Also, netserver release 3.7.73 seems to help, though its not publicly
>> >available so ask usr/3com about it. In fact, with the above changes I
>> >think Quake2 netserver problems are solved for good (or am I being too
>> >optimistic?) :>
>> >
>> >- lv
>> >
>> >On Fri, 3 Jul 1998 vito@aracnet.net wrote:
>> >
>> >> Does anyone know how to fix UDP problems that Quake2 or any other
online
>> >> games use? Is there some setting's that you need to make to USR's
chassis
>> >> to make thing's better.. Please Help...
>> >>
>> >> Vito
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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-> Ok so is there anything to fix it, and or make thing's faster in the UDP
-> packet area.
->
-> Thanks
-> Vito
So far the answer seems to be sqitching to HiPerArcs. It solved the
problem here.
Jeff Binkley
ASA Network Computing
-> only response I keep getting is to change to a HIPER ARC ... which is
-> UNACCEPTABLE! ... A NETServer has more than enough power to do it's UDP
-> right ... USR just needs coders with half a clue ... I say if they are
-> phasing our NETServers, then release the source so that people like us can
-> improve it instead of waiting for months for a fix from USR ...
Nice thought but I believe part of that source code is licensed from Lucent
(i.e. Livingston) and this would preclude them from doing so. I
struggked with this decision too but the bottom line was all of the major
new features will come in the HiPerArc and I didn't want to be left
behind. I'm still waiting to see there trade-in program to be announced.
Jeff Binkley
ASA Network Computing
Jamie Orzechowski was heard to say:
>only response I keep getting is to change to a HIPER ARC ... which is
>UNACCEPTABLE! ... A NETServer has more than enough power to do it's UDP
>right ... USR just needs coders with half a clue ... I say if they are
>phasing our NETServers, then release the source so that people like us can
>improve it instead of waiting for months for a fix from USR ...
While I share your view, USR doesn't own the code to the netserver and
therefore cannot give it away. If USR were so inclined, all that is needed
is the hardware specs for the netserver (it's mostly just a PC, but it's
got that "fancy" TDM interface and all that jaz) ...
--Ricky
Subject:(usr-tc) multilink ISDN From: Leon McCalla <ascend@caribbeanlink.com> Date: 1998-07-06 14:07:20
Ever since i upgraded to V.90 code on the quad modems and Netservers, (Hiper
DSP upgrade but no V.90) I haven't been able to get ant Multilink ISDN
connections online. has anyone noticed anything similar? I suspect that
since the ISDN calls are answered in in the Netserver card that something
need to be enabled but i don't know what.
Leon
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Extending local area phone service From: Pete Ashdown <pashdown@xmission.com> Date: 1998-07-06 14:31:53
Walt Gnann said once upon a time:
>
>Why can't you setup a local number in the remote town and pay for the
>unlimited calling circle plan. Then forward the number to base POP. As
>long as the phone companies are digitally connected the call should be
>pretty clean. The way it's been explained to me is after the number is
>forwarded it's free to take another call. I'd check it out thoroughly with
>the local telco guys and make sure it's within the tarriff for that service.
Up to a limit. We've hit this before in an area with a similar scheme. It
is around 100 forwarded calls.
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Extending local area phone service From: Jim Logan <jim@top.net> Date: 1998-07-06 15:41:30
At 03:57 PM 7/6/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Why can't you setup a local number in the remote town and pay for the
>unlimited calling circle plan. Then forward the number to base POP. As
>long as the phone companies are digitally connected the call should be
>pretty clean. The way it's been explained to me is after the number is
>forwarded it's free to take another call. I'd check it out thoroughly with
>the local telco guys and make sure it's within the tarriff for that service.
>
Actually I don't think that is within the Tarrif - Defeating Long Distance
to the end customer. They (at least here) call that Extended Business
something or other - and want the ISP to pay per minute fee for incoming
calls from what would normally be a LD Call making it unaffordable for the
end customer... It can be done, but you do risk some exposure to lawsuits
from US West if you try to do it.
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Extending local area phone service From: Walt Gnann <wgnann@islc.net> Date: 1998-07-06 15:57:25
Why can't you setup a local number in the remote town and pay for the
unlimited calling circle plan. Then forward the number to base POP. As
long as the phone companies are digitally connected the call should be
pretty clean. The way it's been explained to me is after the number is
forwarded it's free to take another call. I'd check it out thoroughly with
the local telco guys and make sure it's within the tarriff for that service.
Walt
Walter N. Gnann
ISLC, Manager
843.770.1000
843.770.1002 (fax)
wgnann@islc.net
http://www.islc.net
http://www.beaufortcomputerclub.org
-----Original Message-----
>We are in the same situation 4 small phone systems and then SWB in our
town.
>Our user that are in our lad ask for what is called a "calling circle" plan
>where they can dial our town unlimited number of times for a flat rate of
>about $15.00 Mo. Depending on how far away, some can call all over our city
>for the $15 other telcos only allow 1 number to be dialed. We even have one
>user that lives over a 100 miles away but since they are in the same lad as
>us she only pays the flat rate. Hopes this helps
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Greg Coffey <greg@coffey.com>
>To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com>
>Date: Wednesday, July 01, 1998 2:11 PM
>Subject: (usr-tc) Extending local area phone service
>
>
>>I have had some people from smaller towns approaching me about furnishing
>>local dialup access. They are too small to setup anything and make money,
>>just not enough people in the local area. Most are serviced by
independent
>>phone companies. I've seen where some telcos have extended local dialup
>>beyond their normal boundaries for modem calls. I know that Sprint did it
>>in the Nebraska panhandle and have seen a few others. I have discussed
>>this with a couple of the independent telco companies with no success so
>>far. I have a town setup in one area serviced by an independent now and
>>they have another 5-6 towns spread around the state that they service.
>>None of the others has any local internet access. Any of you had any
>>success with this? Is there a magic phrase or desciption that will work?
>>All I get is silence and stuttering on the other end of the line. I have
a
>>couple of towns after me again this week, they are in the pop range of
>>100-300 people. This may not be the proper forum for this but its been
>>kind of slow here lately. 8-)
>>
>>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Greg Coffey, CoffeyNet Voice 307-234-5443 307-234-5446 Fax
>>=====================================================================
>> 142 S. Center St. 3Com/USR v.90 56k $20 in Casper & Douglas
>>Casper, WY 82601 Local Internet for Casper, Rawlins, Douglas,
>> www.coffey.com Wheatland, Pinedale, Lander & Lusk, WY
>>
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Subject:(usr-tc) new rack and TCM problem From: Jolliffe, Anu <ajolliffe@imagen.net> Date: 1998-07-06 16:09:10
I am having a problem accessing my enterprise hub from TCM. This is a
new setup and I've setup the NMC with an IP and the default SNMP
settings. When I try to access the rack through TCM I receive "device
not responding" I can ping the rack ip. The USR view program causes a
Dr. Watson and crashes. I have another rack at a remote location that
works fine.
The NMC is running card rev 4.3.4
The TCM is 5.5.1
If I need to upgrade the NMC how can I do it without using TCM?
Any responses most appreciated
thanks, aj
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Extending local area phone service From: Butch Kemper <kemper@tstar.net> Date: 1998-07-06 20:19:29
What you are describing is called an "RCF" in GTE/Texas. The RCF can have
multiple paths and each path will forward a call. So if you want to
forward 20 calls to the mail POP, you need an RCF with 19 additional paths.
Again, in GTE/Texas the cost of an RCF is $14.50/path unless it is an a
former Contel area and then it is $20/path. Also, I keep hearing that some
switches have limitations on how many paths an RCF can have. And everytime
I expand the ones I have, I get a song and dance about not being able to
have more than 14 paths and they don't know if the requested expansion can
be granted. But so far, there has been no trouble.
Butch
At 03:57 PM 7/6/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Why can't you setup a local number in the remote town and pay for the
>unlimited calling circle plan. Then forward the number to base POP. As
>long as the phone companies are digitally connected the call should be
>pretty clean. The way it's been explained to me is after the number is
>forwarded it's free to take another call. I'd check it out thoroughly with
>the local telco guys and make sure it's within the tarriff for that service.
>
>Walt
>-----------------------------------------------------
>Walter N. Gnann
>ISLC, Manager
>843.770.1000
>843.770.1002 (fax)
>wgnann@islc.net
>http://www.islc.net
>http://www.beaufortcomputerclub.org
>-----------------------------------------------------
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: G. Owens <gowens@seark.net>
>To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com>
>Date: Wednesday, July 01, 1998 9:18 PM
>Subject: Re: (usr-tc) Extending local area phone service
>
>
>>We are in the same situation 4 small phone systems and then SWB in our
>town.
>>Our user that are in our lad ask for what is called a "calling circle" plan
>>where they can dial our town unlimited number of times for a flat rate of
>>about $15.00 Mo. Depending on how far away, some can call all over our city
>>for the $15 other telcos only allow 1 number to be dialed. We even have one
>>user that lives over a 100 miles away but since they are in the same lad as
>>us she only pays the flat rate. Hopes this helps
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Greg Coffey <greg@coffey.com>
>>To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com>
>>Date: Wednesday, July 01, 1998 2:11 PM
>>Subject: (usr-tc) Extending local area phone service
>>
>>
>>>I have had some people from smaller towns approaching me about furnishing
>>>local dialup access. They are too small to setup anything and make money,
>>>just not enough people in the local area. Most are serviced by
>independent
>>>phone companies. I've seen where some telcos have extended local dialup
>>>beyond their normal boundaries for modem calls. I know that Sprint did it
>>>in the Nebraska panhandle and have seen a few others. I have discussed
>>>this with a couple of the independent telco companies with no success so
>>>far. I have a town setup in one area serviced by an independent now and
>>>they have another 5-6 towns spread around the state that they service.
>>>None of the others has any local internet access. Any of you had any
>>>success with this? Is there a magic phrase or desciption that will work?
>>>All I get is silence and stuttering on the other end of the line. I have
>a
>>>couple of towns after me again this week, they are in the pop range of
>>>100-300 people. This may not be the proper forum for this but its been
>>>kind of slow here lately. 8-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Greg Coffey, CoffeyNet Voice 307-234-5443 307-234-5446 Fax
>>>=====================================================================
>>> 142 S. Center St. 3Com/USR v.90 56k $20 in Casper & Douglas
>>>Casper, WY 82601 Local Internet for Casper, Rawlins, Douglas,
>>> www.coffey.com Wheatland, Pinedale, Lander & Lusk, WY
>>>
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) new rack and TCM problem From: Brian McIntire <brian_mcintire@mw.3com.com> Date: 1998-07-07 08:41:47
If you can ping the NMC the only reason you would not get a response from
the device is if you are not using the correct snmp community strings.
Connect to the console and choose option 1 on the Main Menu
(Configuration). Now choose option 5 (Local SNMP Community Strings). Now
look at the read and the read+write community strings. Make sure you are
specifying these strings when you open TCM and choose file/new. If all
else fails, flip dip 6 on the NMC. You'll find the dips just behind the
face plate. Reseat the NMC and try it again.
As far as flashing your NMC without TCM, you can use PCSDL to do that. use
the following steps:
1. Verify you can get a console session to your NMC. (Use a rj45 to a
db25 with a null modem adapter and a modem cable to connect one of your com
ports to the console. Then open HyPer Terminal and set the speed to 9600
if dips. 9600 assumes dips 1 & 2 are off on your NMC.
2. If you can see a menu then close hyper terminal and any other programs
you may have open. Open a dos prompt or close windows and go to DOS.
3. Change directories to the directory where your unzipped NMC files are.
You will need a .nac, .sdl., & pcsdl.exe.
4. Type the following:
pcsdl -p1 -r9600 -vsd3.2.0 -vna5.4.95 -nsdnm -nnanm (for 4mb NMC cards)
assumes you have downloaded and unzipped nmc5495.zip from
totalservice.3com.com into the current directory
pcsdl -p1 -r9600 -vsd3.2.0 -vna5.5.86 -nsdnm -nnahm (for 16mb NMC cards)
assumes you have downloaded and unzipped nmc5586.zip from
totalservice.3com.com into the current directory
-p1 assumes you have your modem cable to nullmodem to db25 to rj45 cable
plugged into your 1st com port on your PC.
Hope this helps
"Jolliffe, Anu" <ajolliffe@imagen.net> on 07/06/98 06:09:10 PM
Please respond to usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
cc:
I am having a problem accessing my enterprise hub from TCM. This is a
new setup and I've setup the NMC with an IP and the default SNMP
settings. When I try to access the rack through TCM I receive "device
not responding" I can ping the rack ip. The USR view program causes a
Dr. Watson and crashes. I have another rack at a remote location that
works fine.
The NMC is running card rev 4.3.4
The TCM is 5.5.1
If I need to upgrade the NMC how can I do it without using TCM?
Any responses most appreciated
thanks, aj
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After switching over to the HiPerArcs from Netservers, I am finding
myself having a difficult time building a filter. Here is one I have
built but it doesn't seem to work:
#filter
IP:
010 AND src-addr = 199.178.136.0/24
020 ACCEPT dst-addr = 199.178.136.0/24;
DENY;
According to RADIUS, the filter is being sent to the HiPerArc. WHat I
thought this rule would do is limited IP traffic to only being between
addresses originating and termintain with the designated class c address
range. In testing though it appears not to make any difference (i.e.
someone within this class c can get to other addresses outside of the
class c). What am I missing ?
What is also confusing is that with the Netserver you created two
filters (i.e. xyz.in and xyz.out) to correspond to the filter name.
The HiPerArc doesn't seem to require this or I can't find it in the
documentation.
Thanks,
Jeff Binkley
ASA Network Computing
CMPQwk 1.42 9999
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
>[mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Jeff Binkley
>Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 8:47 AM
>To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
>Subject: (usr-tc) HiPer Arc Filters
>
>
>
>
>
>After switching over to the HiPerArcs from Netservers, I am finding
>myself having a difficult time building a filter. Here is one I have
>built but it doesn't seem to work:
>
>#filter
>IP:
>010 AND src-addr = 199.178.136.0/24
>020 ACCEPT dst-addr = 199.178.136.0/24;
>DENY;
>
>According to RADIUS, the filter is being sent to the HiPerArc. WHat I
>thought this rule would do is limited IP traffic to only being between
>addresses originating and termintain with the designated class c address
>range. In testing though it appears not to make any difference (i.e.
>someone within this class c can get to other addresses outside of the
>class c). What am I missing ?
>
>What is also confusing is that with the Netserver you created two
>filters (i.e. xyz.in and xyz.out) to correspond to the filter name.
>The HiPerArc doesn't seem to require this or I can't find it in the
>documentation.
>
For setting up filters you will have to do the following.
Filters can be created / modified using
1. HARM
2. An off line text editor than TFTP the file.
"set interface slot:x/:mod:[1-Y] filter_access on"
Then disable and re-enable the interfaces.
add filter <filename>
verify filter <filename>
Also remember the in vs out conventions. In and out is always in reference
to the interface and not the dial client.
USER INTERFACE
DATA --> = input filter
<-- DATA = output filter
For HARC Filters:
1) filter_access must be turned on, on the interface for them to work.
2) You can use RADIUS framed-filter-id to apply a filter to a specific user
via RAIDIUS.filter file must be present on the HARC. Make sure the filter
has the
correct suffix (.in or .out) if you wish the filter to be input or output
only.
3) Or, you can use ip-input-filter/ip-output-filter to set the filter up
dynamically via RADIUS
4) Or, if the user is defined on the HARC you can always set a filter for
that specific user. The filter file must be present on the HARC.
For Example
#filter
IP:
010 ACCEPT src-addr = 128.100.33.1
020 DENY dst-addr = 200.135.38.9
For RADIUS users you can see if the filter is applied by typing "show remote
user <name>". It will
show what filters are applied.
Hope this helps.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
>[mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Jeff Binkley
>Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 11:06 AM
>To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
>Subject: RE: (usr-tc) HiPer Arc Filters
>
>
>-> For setting up filters you will have to do the following.
>->
>-> Filters can be created / modified using
>-> 1. HARM
>-> 2. An off line text editor than TFTP the file.
>->
>-> "set interface slot:x/:mod:[1-Y] filter_access on"
>-> Then disable and re-enable the interfaces.
>
>Is the "set interface xyz filter_access on" required even if I am
>using RADIUS
>to send the filter name to the HiPerArc and the filter is stored in the
>HiPerArc via the HARM ? If so, this is definetly different than
>the Netserver.
Yes. All HARM does is automate the editing and TFTP of the filter file. It
doesnt use a different method of creating the filters on the HARC.
>Also if so, is the disable and re-enable command disruptive ?
Yes.
>-> add filter <filename>
>-> verify filter <filename>
>->
>-> Also remember the in vs out conventions. In and out is always
>in reference
>-> to the interface and not the dial client.
>->
>-> USER INTERFACE
>-> DATA --> = input filter
>-> <-- DATA = output filter
>->
>-> For HARC Filters:
>->
>-> 1) filter_access must be turned on, on the interface for them to work.
>-> 2) You can use RADIUS framed-filter-id to apply a filter to a specific
>-> user via RAIDIUS.filter file must be present on the HARC. Make sure the
>-> filter has the correct suffix (.in or .out) if you wish the filter to be
>-> input or output only.
>-> 3) Or, you can use ip-input-filter/ip-output-filter to set the filter up
>
>Ok, does #2 mean then that if there is no .in or .out extension
>that the filter
>is bidirectional or must I create two files one with a .in and one
>with a .out
>and make them identical to have a bi-directional filter ? Sorry
>for all of the
>questions but have I found the documentation lacking so far.
>
If you supply a Framed-Filter-Id = "myfilter" Harc will expect that you
have the filters myfiler.in and myfilter.out installed.
If you supply a Framed-Filter-Id = "myfilter.in" then only myfilter.in needs
to be present.
-> For setting up filters you will have to do the following.
->
-> Filters can be created / modified using
-> 1. HARM
-> 2. An off line text editor than TFTP the file.
->
-> "set interface slot:x/:mod:[1-Y] filter_access on"
-> Then disable and re-enable the interfaces.
Is the "set interface xyz filter_access on" required even if I am using RADIUS
to send the filter name to the HiPerArc and the filter is stored in the
HiPerArc via the HARM ? If so, this is definetly different than the Netserver.
Also if so, is the disable and re-enable command disruptive ?
-> add filter <filename>
-> verify filter <filename>
->
-> Also remember the in vs out conventions. In and out is always in reference
-> to the interface and not the dial client.
->
-> USER INTERFACE
-> DATA --> = input filter
-> <-- DATA = output filter
->
-> For HARC Filters:
->
-> 1) filter_access must be turned on, on the interface for them to work.
-> 2) You can use RADIUS framed-filter-id to apply a filter to a specific
-> user via RAIDIUS.filter file must be present on the HARC. Make sure the
-> filter has the correct suffix (.in or .out) if you wish the filter to be
-> input or output only.
-> 3) Or, you can use ip-input-filter/ip-output-filter to set the filter up
Ok, does #2 mean then that if there is no .in or .out extension that the filter
is bidirectional or must I create two files one with a .in and one with a .out
and make them identical to have a bi-directional filter ? Sorry for all of the
questions but have I found the documentation lacking so far.
Jeff Binkley
ASA Network Computing
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Extending local area phone service From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com> Date: 1998-07-07 11:12:08
Thus spake Walt Gnann
>Why can't you setup a local number in the remote town and pay for the
>unlimited calling circle plan. Then forward the number to base POP. As
>long as the phone companies are digitally connected the call should be
>pretty clean. The way it's been explained to me is after the number is
>forwarded it's free to take another call. I'd check it out thoroughly with
>the local telco guys and make sure it's within the tarriff for that service.
I would think it would depend on the switches and the telco's
involved...
If the switches are using an SS7 setup to forward calls (ie, true number
portability), then once the call is "forwarded" then it should be free
to handle another one...basically what you're doing is taking that
number and actually moving the home switch for that number to the other
switch...there should be no limits on the number of calls that this
setup can take.
The other option that folks have mentioned is the Remote Call Forwarding
(RCF) and is what is used if the switches are SS7 capable. This is what
we're having to use in at least one location (on a 1A switch here in
Louisville ancient piece of analog junk), and this is the situation
where they have to set up "paths". Each group of paths (not sure of the
telco terminology here) is limited to 14 or 15 paths or so, but these
can be grouped together in a hunt group up to being able to give you
about 100 paths (think its actually 99), so for most places, this will
do what you need, but in large locations you could run into problems.
<ponder>
I wonder if you could set up the 99th path to do a *local* call forward
to another number within the same switch which is then set up as another
one of these 99 trunk groups to do remote call forwarding....proly
could, but good luck getting any telco's to do it
</ponder>
P.S. Back from my honeymoon...I'll get on the redistributing RIPv2 into
OSPF here in a minute...the cruise itself was wonderful, getting there
and getting back was a nightmare...don't fly Delta, their customer
service is worse that any phone company I've ever dealt with.
--
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Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848
IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456
Subject:Re: (usr-tc)help me, where is ospf? From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com> Date: 1998-07-07 16:44:05
Thus spake Brian
>Ok, I'll start this out. Here is how *we* are doing it:
>First, let me tell you that all HiperARC (you could substitute netservers)
>are on the 208.206.76.0/24 network. All my servers (web, mail, etc) are
>all on that network as well. Dialup pools are on totally seperate
>networks, and that doesnt matter.
OK, our assumptions here (again, sorry for taking so long for this,
got married and all that :)...
we put 4 usr chassis' on a subnet...each subnet is a flat 10bt network
(ie, no switching at this point). We have the netservers, nmc's and
dialup pools all within a class c on that subnet, so x.x.x.1 is the
default gateway (cisco 2501 usually), x.x.x.2 is the first nmc, x.x.x.3
is the first netserver, x.x.x.4 is the second nmc, etc. we start our
dialup pools at x.x.x.20 just to leave a few free for adding weird stuff
in later if we need (switches, maybe a sparc for watching the network,
stuff like that). This layout allows us to put 4 full chassis' in a
class C without a great deal of wasted IP numbers.
The example configs I'm going to put below is for our Nashville POP
(newest POP, simplest, smallest, etc.), and the config is this: 10bt
ethernet that everything is sitting on...2501 as the router, t1 back to
our main location....ripv2 is running on the ethernet, ospf is running
on the t1 (and the cisco is also set up to talk OSPF on the ethernet
even though there's nothing else there for it to talk to in OSPF). The
Class C for this network in Nashville is 204.255.232.0/24, the T1 has
the ip number of 204.255.229.250 (249 being the IP number of the other
side of the link) the relevant sections of the config are:
router rip
version 2
! turn on rip version 2 (obviously)
timers basic 30 90 5 120
! adjust rip timeouts to prevent long routing "black-holes"
network 204.255.232.0
! ethernet network IP block...specifies to run RIPv2 on the ethernet
!interface (which is within this block)
distribute-list 12 in
! only accept routes that pass the access-list number 12
no auto-summary
! don't screw with any summarization....OSPF will handle all of that
! This access-list controls what routes are allowed to be advertised by
! RIPv2...this is only here as a protection from someone advert'ing a
! bogus default route, we only have it because we had some old Xyplex
! equipment that didn't seem to have any way to disable advertisement of
! certain routes and would therefore advert theis default route out and
! screw things up
no access-list 12
access-list 12 deny 0.0.0.0
access-list 12 permit any
router ospf 1
summary-address 204.255.232.0 255.255.255.0
! for all address is the 204.255.232.0/24 network, just advertise the
! base /24 route...this cuts down on the number of routes advertised as
! anything in 204.255.232.0 is on the local ethernet and the routing for
! that is handled by the ripv2
redistribute rip metric 1 subnets route-map rip2ospf
! redistribute rip routes into OSPF, allow subnets, and only advertise
! ones that match the route map rip2ospf...these routes are subject to the
! summarization above
network 204.255.232.0 0.0.0.255 area 0
network 204.255.229.0 0.0.0.255 area 0
! Run OSPF on any interfaces in the following network blocks, and these
! interfaces are in area 0 (backbone area)...this matches both the
! ethernet, and the t1 interface
! This route map is also here for checking for bum configs...basically,
! it prevents OSPF from adverting routes learned from RIP on any
! interfaces other than the ones that are listed here...so this router
! will only advertise routes into OSPF from RIP that are learned through
! the ethernet interfaces...this let me slowly introduce OSPF into the
! network, so I could set this router up to run OSPF and still let it
! learn RIP routes over the T1 and *not* redistribute routes into OSPF
! which would then override those RIP routes learned via the T1 and cause
! a routing loop...made switching to OSPF *much* easier as I could
! specify more directly where I would allow routes to be learned from so I
! could run RIP and OSPF in parallel on our backbone for a while while I
! implemented it in our other routers
route-map rip2ospf permit 10
match interface Ethernet0
OK...so here's how we really make use of this...and what this
does...we assign static IP addresses out of other Class C blocks (which
are not in the summary-address statements), so those blocks get
advertised out as they are assigned (many /32's, but a few blocks
assigned via Framed-Route statements in RADIUS, usually /27's, /28's,
and /29's depending on how big the customer is). The static IP address
is assigned in the netserver, advertised via RIPv2, picked up by the
cisco and redistributed in OSPF everywhere else. If its a dynamically
assigned IP address, it'll be advertised by the netserver, picked up by
the Cisco and only advertised as the summary for the whole class c
(which was almost assuredly already advertised). Some customers have
static IP's assigend out of class C's (usually the very top of the Class
C) that were also assigned to modem networks (for example, up in
Cincinnati we have customers with IP address such as 199.170.84.253, the
dialup pools, netservers, and NMC's are all in the 199.170.84.0 class
c...don't ask...old crappy Xyplex equipment we used to use required
this), so these customers can now call to other POP's (say nashville)
and that specific /32 for that customer is still advertised out via
RIPv2 on the netservers into OSPF on the cisco's and is therefore fully
reachable even though they're not in thier "home" POP...the only place
that they wouldn't be reachable (maybe, haven't checked that for sure)
is actually in their "home" POP (ie, Cincinnati in the above example)
since those Netservers and such would assume that they would be
reachable on the directly connected network when they aren't...this
could be solved by redistributing OSPF back into RIPv2 for the
netservers and such, but I haven't deemed that enough of a problem to
worry with worrying about the interactions and possible routing loops
(proly not major, but we haven't had anyone need this functionality yet,
so we're not worrying about it yet :).
Obviously, this scheme doesn't work when you're whole operation is on
one flat network, or when you only have one class C to work with (though
there's no reason it couldn't be made to work with smaller subnets)
Anyway...I *hope* I've made this pretty clear and haven't confused
everyone...let me know if you have further questions about it.
--
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Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848
IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456
Subject:RE: (usr-tc) HiPer Arc Fi From: Jeff Binkley <jeff.binkley@asacomp.com> Date: 1998-07-08 08:32:00
u>>
u>>
u>>
u>>
u>>
u>>After switching over to the HiPerArcs from Netservers, I am finding
u>>myself having a difficult time building a filter. Here is one I have
u>>built but it doesn't seem to work:
u>>
u>>#filter
u>>IP:
u>>010 AND src-addr = 199.178.136.0/24
u>>020 ACCEPT dst-addr = 199.178.136.0/24;
u>>DENY;
u>>
u>>According to RADIUS, the filter is being sent to the HiPerArc. WHat
u>I >thought this rule would do is limited IP traffic to only being
u>between >addresses originating and termintain with the designated
u>class c address >range. In testing though it appears not to make any
u>difference (i.e. >someone within this class c can get to other
u>addresses outside of the >class c). What am I missing ?
u>>
u>>What is also confusing is that with the Netserver you created two
u>>filters (i.e. xyz.in and xyz.out) to correspond to the filter name.
u>>The HiPerArc doesn't seem to require this or I can't find it in the
u>>documentation.
u>>
u>For setting up filters you will have to do the following.
u>Filters can be created / modified using
u>1. HARM
u>2. An off line text editor than TFTP the file.
u>"set interface slot:x/:mod:[1-Y] filter_access on"
u>Then disable and re-enable the interfaces.
Thanks for your help. I finally got a filter working. it seems there
is either a bug on the HiPerArc 4.0.29 code or the documentation is
wrong in many places. The problem ended up being the rule itself. The
last line: DENY; doesn't work. HARM would sometimes show the compile
being good and sometimes you'd get a goofy error message about "line 0
IP:" being wrong. I finally went to the HiPerArc itself and did a
verify filter. Through process of elimination I got it working. Since
the DENY didn't work I reversed the logic on the rule and wrote it as a
!= instead of an = and now they work.
Jeff Binkley
ASA Network Computing
CMPQwk 1.42 9999
Hi,
I see that I could optionaly activate a Cellular protocol.
Which new possibilities could I open to my customers ?
Could I offer : - SMS
- E-mail
- Paging services
to my customers connected thru my TC's ?
Thanks .
--
Gilles Lorphelin
Telecoms Mgr. - ISOC Member
Phone : +689 508 888
MANA S.A. (www.mana.pf) Fax : +689 508 889
IAP/ISP - Tahiti & her Islands E-mail: gilles@mana.pf
Subject:(usr-tc) hard busy out channel on T1 via SNMP? From: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com> Date: 1998-07-08 12:41:34
Anybody know the magic incantation to do this? SNMP just still isn't my
"thing", and I know this has to be possible.
Subject:(usr-tc) Telepath modems From: Terry Kennedy <terry@olypen.com> Date: 1998-07-08 12:54:34
We are having a considerable amount of problems with
people who use telepath modems. We are using both
the HiPer DSP/Hiper ARC and the netserver/quad modems.
People who used to connect fine to us on old Multitech equipment
connect are instanly dropped. Anyone else seen this problem before?
Terry Kennedy
Terry,
We have seen this too... I think it is a combination of several things!
Bad phone line (telepaths don't like bad lines) Some bad modems, just
won't connect at all. Someone can correct me if I'm wrongm, but I believe
their x2 flash code is kinda old?
We have about a 50/50 split on connections and non connections as well
as some attaining x2 speeds and other only 31,200???
I really think most of it lies with the modem itself.
Just my opinion....
Phillip
On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Terry Kennedy wrote:
> We are having a considerable amount of problems with
> people who use telepath modems. We are using both
> the HiPer DSP/Hiper ARC and the netserver/quad modems.
> People who used to connect fine to us on old Multitech equipment
> connect are instanly dropped. Anyone else seen this problem before?
>
> Terry Kennedy
>
>
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Subject:(usr-tc) Courier I Modem and TC From: Jeff Binkley <jeff.binkley@asacomp.com> Date: 1998-07-09 09:03:00
Is anyone aware of any problems with the HiPerArc 4.0.29 code and
being able to connect with Courier I-Modem using asyncPPP on
2 ISDN channels ? Since switching from the Netserver to the HiPerArc
card, we cannot get a Cour I-Modem to connect with anything other
than a single channel v.110 or V.120 connection. When we try the
v2=5 option on the Courier I-Modem we never see the userid and
password get sent from the NT 4.0 workstation. And the second
channel never tried to come up. This worked fine with the Netserver.
We've got a ticket in with supprot but I am not holding out much
hope with them. We are able to get an Ascend Pipeline 50 to
establish a connection on 2 channels.
Thanks,
Jeff Binkley
ASA Network Computing
Subject:RE: (usr-tc) Courier I Modem and TC From: Mike Wronski <mike@coredump.ae.usr.com> Date: 1998-07-09 09:30:35
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
>[mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Jeff Binkley
>Sent: Thursday, July 09, 1998 9:03 AM
>To: USR-TC@lists.xmission.com
>Subject: (usr-tc) Courier I Modem and TC
>
>
>
>Is anyone aware of any problems with the HiPerArc 4.0.29 code and
>being able to connect with Courier I-Modem using asyncPPP on
>2 ISDN channels ? Since switching from the Netserver to the HiPerArc
>card, we cannot get a Cour I-Modem to connect with anything other
>than a single channel v.110 or V.120 connection. When we try the
>v2=5 option on the Courier I-Modem we never see the userid and
>password get sent from the NT 4.0 workstation. And the second
>channel never tried to come up. This worked fine with the Netserver.
>We've got a ticket in with supprot but I am not holding out much
>hope with them. We are able to get an Ascend Pipeline 50 to
>establish a connection on 2 channels.
>
Try this for an init string:
at*v2=5*d0=1
It works for me. You should also try turning off LCP extentions and IP
Headder compression if NT is your dial client.
Subject:(usr-tc) Radius recommendations From: Randy Cosby <dcosby@infowest.com> Date: 1998-07-09 09:42:03
I have the unique opportunity of starting over with some new equipment, a new
users file, and a new radius in a few weeks. I'd like to do it right this time.
I'm well versed with mysql, so Radiator looks very attractive to me. Is anyone
here using it yet? I have a hard time using any Unix software "sight-unseen".
Do you know if they offer any type of evaluations, even if we "deposit" our
credit card number with them for 30 days? How is performance compared
to Merit radius?
Any other recommendations? I would like to stay with a FreeBSD based system.
Thanks,
Randy Cosby
iCable.net
Do you have the "hiper bundle" special available there? It's a full chassis
with two hiper cards, and is much cheaper than buying the cards by themselves.
We've bought a couple and just pulled the cards out of them and moved them to
another chassis to save shelf space. Now we have spare chassis, power
supplies, NMC's, and HiperARC's.
Subject:RE: (usr-tc) Courier I Modem and TC From: Jeff Binkley <jeff.binkley@asacomp.com> Date: 1998-07-09 10:57:00
-> >
-> >
-> >
-> >Is anyone aware of any problems with the HiPerArc 4.0.29 code and >being
-> able to connect with Courier I-Modem using asyncPPP on
-> >2 ISDN channels ? Since switching from the Netserver to the HiPerArc
-> >card, we cannot get a Cour I-Modem to connect with anything other >than a
-> single channel v.110 or V.120 connection. When we try the >v2=5 option on
-> the Courier I-Modem we never see the userid and >password get sent from the
-> NT 4.0 workstation. And the second >channel never tried to come up. This
-> worked fine with the Netserver. >We've got a ticket in with supprot but I am
-> not holding out much >hope with them. We are able to get an Ascend Pipeline
-> 50 to
-> >establish a connection on 2 channels.
-> >
->
-> Try this for an init string:
-> at*v2=5*d0=1
->
-> It works for me. You should also try turning off LCP extentions and IP
-> Headder compression if NT is your dial client.
Mike,
I'll try it. What I find odd is everyone says turn off NT LCP and IP
compression. yet we have always had our systems setup that way and it
works flawlessly. I am wondering why folks keep wanting to turn it off ?
Granted you have to have the Netserver or HiPerArc setup to handle them
but I've seen no inherent problem with them.
Jeff Binkley
ASA Network Computing
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Courier I Modem and TC From: Leon McCalla <ascend@caribbeanlink.com> Date: 1998-07-09 12:07:41
I have a similar problem.. ever since i upgraded to V.90 code, I have not
been able to connect at 128K with either Pipeline 50s or Courier-Is. the
Courier-Is are both on win95 machines so i don't thing they even use LCP
extensions.
Leon
Subject:(usr-tc) limiting ISDN to a single B-channel From: Jay Nitikman <jay@cruzio.com> Date: 1998-07-09 13:09:01
I'm trying to limit ISDN to a a single B-channel via RADIUS. How do I
do this? I thought I once saw this in 3COM documentation, but now I
can't find the info.
--
Jay Nitikman (jay@cruzio.com)
Cruzio is a mom and pop Internet Service Provider
Web: http://www.cruzio.com Email: info@cruzio.com Voice: 423-1162
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Radius recommendations From: Dale E. Reed Jr. <daler@iea-software.com> Date: 1998-07-09 13:22:19
Brian wrote:
>
> I am keeping my eye on radiator as well. I just need to here more
> feedback. We use the Platypus billing system, and Radiator output records
> would have to be compatible. I like the 3Com VSA stuff in Radiator. I am
> wondering if it has support for Postgres..........
You might want to look at RadiusNT. I know Platypus supports it at
the DB level (no text file import junk to worry about). The latest
supports VSA attrbiutes and works with many different DB backends.
--
Dale E. Reed Jr. (daler@iea-software.com)
_________________________________________________________________
IEA Software, Inc. | RadiusNT, Emerald, and NT FAQs
Internet Solutions for Today | http://www.iea-software.com
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Radius recommendations From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-09 14:41:18
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Randy Cosby wrote:
> I have the unique opportunity of starting over with some new equipment, a new
> users file, and a new radius in a few weeks. I'd like to do it right this time.
>
> I'm well versed with mysql, so Radiator looks very attractive to me. Is anyone
> here using it yet? I have a hard time using any Unix software "sight-unseen".
> Do you know if they offer any type of evaluations, even if we "deposit" our
> credit card number with them for 30 days? How is performance compared
> to Merit radius?
I am keeping my eye on radiator as well. I just need to here more
feedback. We use the Platypus billing system, and Radiator output records
would have to be compatible. I like the 3Com VSA stuff in Radiator. I am
wondering if it has support for Postgres..........
>
> Any other recommendations? I would like to stay with a FreeBSD based system.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Randy Cosby
> iCable.net
>
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Subject:RE: (usr-tc) limiting ISDN to a single B-channel From: Mike Wronski <mike@coredump.ae.usr.com> Date: 1998-07-09 15:31:43
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
>[mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Jay Nitikman
>Sent: Thursday, July 09, 1998 3:09 PM
>To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
>Subject: (usr-tc) limiting ISDN to a single B-channel
>
>
>I'm trying to limit ISDN to a a single B-channel via RADIUS. How do I
>do this? I thought I once saw this in 3COM documentation, but now I
>can't find the info.
>
Port-Limit=1 in DEFAULT user profile.
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Radius recommendations From: Peter D. Mayer <dmayer@netwalk.com> Date: 1998-07-09 16:28:03
Brian,
If you're using the Platypus billing system, I recommend RadiusNT by IEA
Software (www.iea-software.com) . It runs as an NT service, uses very few
resources, and is directly supported in the latest version of Platypus.
We've been using it successfully for almost a year now, with very few
problems. One note, the documentation is not very detailed, so unless
you're pretty familiar with MS-SQL, it might not be for you. We have it
authenticating directly from a view of our Platypus database and it works
quite well.
As for trial versions, IEA lets you download the full version, then gives
you a trial key that will authenticate 100 times before you have to restart
the service.
Peter D. Mayer
NetWalk Tech Support
dmayer@netwalk.com
-----Original Message-----
>
>I am keeping my eye on radiator as well. I just need to here more
>feedback. We use the Platypus billing system, and Radiator output records
>would have to be compatible. I like the 3Com VSA stuff in Radiator. I am
>wondering if it has support for Postgres..........
>
>
>
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|
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We are ready to buy some new boards for the Total Control.
We have to choose between a HiPer DSP 30 channel (E1 Card Set) and some
more quad modem cards used in conjunction with a dual PRI/E1 NAC.
The question is: Since the modems are cheaper than the HiPer card, is this
card more reliable, or more performant, than the dual PRI/E1 NAC +
modems?
Does the HiPer card needs some server or the Netserver PRI card can be
used?
TIA
-vsv
---
Stefanita Valcu
Network Administrator, Dynamic Network Technologies
Calea Victoriei 155, bl.D1, sc.7, et.3, sector 1, 71102, Bucuresti, Romania
tel: +40-1-6590696, fax: +40-1-3122745, E-mail: vsv@dnt.ro
Is there anybody able to send me some sample configuration in order to
make a link between a cisco and a TC, via Frame Relay?
Are the cisco syncronous cables good for the TC, or I need different
cables?
Does the TC support RS.232 cables or only V.35 (as is written in the
documentation)?
TIA
-vsv
---
Stefanita Valcu
Network Administrator, Dynamic Network Technologies
Calea Victoriei 155, bl.D1, sc.7, et.3, sector 1, 71102, Bucuresti, Romania
tel: +40-1-6590696, fax: +40-1-3122745, E-mail: vsv@dnt.ro
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Randy Cosby wrote:
> Do you have the "hiper bundle" special available there? It's a full chassis
> with two hiper cards, and is much cheaper than buying the cards by themselves.
> We've bought a couple and just pulled the cards out of them and moved them to
> another chassis to save shelf space. Now we have spare chassis, power
> supplies, NMC's, and HiperARC's.
No, we have two sepparate offerts, one for HiPer cards and the other for
quad modem cards. No bundles.
rgds
-vsv
---
Stefanita Valcu
Network Administrator, Dynamic Network Technologies
Calea Victoriei 155, bl.D1, sc.7, et.3, sector 1, 71102, Bucuresti, Romania
tel: +40-1-6590696, fax: +40-1-3122745, E-mail: vsv@dnt.ro
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Radius recommendations From: Dale E. Reed Jr. <daler@iea-software.com> Date: 1998-07-09 22:22:27
Brian wrote:
>
> > > I am keeping my eye on radiator as well. I just need to here more
> > > feedback. We use the Platypus billing system, and Radiator output records
> > > would have to be compatible. I like the 3Com VSA stuff in Radiator. I am
> > > wondering if it has support for Postgres..........
> >
> > You might want to look at RadiusNT. I know Platypus supports it at
> > the DB level (no text file import junk to worry about). The latest
> > supports VSA attrbiutes and works with many different DB backends.
>
> NT has not proven itself a reliable enough platform, in most cases.
I'm not looking for a holy or OS war. We have over a 1000 customers using
RadiusNT world wide. If RadiusNT wasn't reliable or stable (and that includes
NT itself) wouldn't something majorly have been brought up by now?
--
Dale E. Reed Jr. (daler@iea-software.com)
_________________________________________________________________
IEA Software, Inc. | RadiusNT, Emerald, and NT FAQs
Internet Solutions for Today | http://www.iea-software.com
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Radius recommendations From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-09 22:33:45
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Dale E. Reed Jr. wrote:
> Brian wrote:
> >
> > I am keeping my eye on radiator as well. I just need to here more
> > feedback. We use the Platypus billing system, and Radiator output records
> > would have to be compatible. I like the 3Com VSA stuff in Radiator. I am
> > wondering if it has support for Postgres..........
>
> You might want to look at RadiusNT. I know Platypus supports it at
> the DB level (no text file import junk to worry about). The latest
> supports VSA attrbiutes and works with many different DB backends.
>
NT has not proven itself a reliable enough platform, in most cases.
> --
> Dale E. Reed Jr. (daler@iea-software.com)
> _________________________________________________________________
> IEA Software, Inc. | RadiusNT, Emerald, and NT FAQs
> Internet Solutions for Today | http://www.iea-software.com
>
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Subject:(usr-tc) Forsale: Used USR Sportster 33.6 From: Lee Kuo <lee@cosmo.mitec.net> Date: 1998-07-09 22:45:47
42 used USR Sportsters, $35/each
60 serial modem cables (6 feet/9 feet) $2.0/each
If anyone is interested in buying, please email me at pmlist@mitec.net
Thanks.
Do you have a open ticket on this issue?
krish
\ T.S.V. Krishnan \
\ Network System Engineer \ ( : - : )
\ 3Com ............ \
----------------------------------------------/
tkrishna@bubba.ae.usr.com
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The Yadda Yadda Search - for simple anwers - http://interproc.ae.usr.com/tkb.html
Any Sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable for a feature.
- Rick Kulawiec
On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Terry Kennedy wrote:
> Ok, we've running 8 DSP cards with the HiPer ARC's for about
> 3 weeks now. We are much worse off than when we had the quads
> and netservers only. Constant complaints of disconnections and no
> connections. Are there any settings that can help this. I have already
> upped the carrier loss times.
>
> How about header compression?
> Is this something that might help to turn this off?
> Should we turn off v.32 terbo like the quads?
>
> I bought the new equipment because I couldn't find anyone selling
> the Netservers and Quads setup new. I don't mind new equipment
> if it works at least as well as the old. ( the netservers/quads worked
> great for us) By the way, anyone here of v.90 release date for the
> HiPer DSp?
>
> This is a fairly simple setup. We have channelized T1 lines, not PRI
> Most of our callers still have 33.6 modems, the rest mostly X2. Some
> V.90.
>
> Anyone with ideas? I'd love some help with this one.
>
> Terry Kennedy
>
>
>
>
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Hi Randy,
thanks for your interest in Radiator.
Radiator is a full source code product.
We sometimes make 30 day evaluation licenses available to
selected ISPs.
Before we could do that, we would need to know:
1. What is your proposed environment (hosts and NASs)?
2. What is your test plan?
3. What are your selection criteria?
4. If Radiator meets those criteria, will you be purchasing?
Hope that helps
Cheers.
On Jul 9, 9:42am, Randy Cosby wrote:
> Subject: (usr-tc) Radius recommendations
> I have the unique opportunity of starting over with some new equipment, a new
> users file, and a new radius in a few weeks. I'd like to do it right this
time.
>
> I'm well versed with mysql, so Radiator looks very attractive to me. Is
anyone
> here using it yet? I have a hard time using any Unix software
"sight-unseen".
> Do you know if they offer any type of evaluations, even if we "deposit" our
> credit card number with them for 30 days? How is performance compared
> to Merit radius?
>
> Any other recommendations? I would like to stay with a FreeBSD based system.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Randy Cosby
> iCable.net
>
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>-- End of excerpt from Randy Cosby
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Mike McCauley mikem@open.com.au
Open System Consultants Pty. Ltd Unix, Motif, C++, WWW
24 Bateman St Hampton, VIC 3188 Australia Consulting and development
Phone, Fax: +61 3 9598-0985
http://www.open.com.au
On Jul 9, 2:41pm, Brian wrote:
> Subject: Re: (usr-tc) Radius recommendations
> On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Randy Cosby wrote:
>
> > I have the unique opportunity of starting over with some new equipment, a
new
> > users file, and a new radius in a few weeks. I'd like to do it right this
time.
> >
> > I'm well versed with mysql, so Radiator looks very attractive to me. Is
anyone
> > here using it yet? I have a hard time using any Unix software
"sight-unseen".
> > Do you know if they offer any type of evaluations, even if we "deposit" our
> > credit card number with them for 30 days? How is performance compared
> > to Merit radius?
>
> I am keeping my eye on radiator as well. I just need to here more
> feedback. We use the Platypus billing system, and Radiator output records
> would have to be compatible. I like the 3Com VSA stuff in Radiator. I am
> wondering if it has support for Postgres..........
There is a postgres DBD driver for perl on CPAN. Radiator can use it without
modification.
--
Mike McCauley mikem@open.com.au
Open System Consultants Pty. Ltd Unix, Motif, C++, WWW
24 Bateman St Hampton, VIC 3188 Australia Consulting and development
Phone, Fax: +61 3 9598-0985
http://www.open.com.au
Ok, we've running 8 DSP cards with the HiPer ARC's for about
3 weeks now. We are much worse off than when we had the quads
and netservers only. Constant complaints of disconnections and no
connections. Are there any settings that can help this. I have already
upped the carrier loss times.
How about header compression?
Is this something that might help to turn this off?
Should we turn off v.32 terbo like the quads?
I bought the new equipment because I couldn't find anyone selling
the Netservers and Quads setup new. I don't mind new equipment
if it works at least as well as the old. ( the netservers/quads worked
great for us) By the way, anyone here of v.90 release date for the
HiPer DSp?
This is a fairly simple setup. We have channelized T1 lines, not PRI
Most of our callers still have 33.6 modems, the rest mostly X2. Some
V.90.
Anyone with ideas? I'd love some help with this one.
Terry Kennedy
Subject:(usr-tc) Agressive Trade-Up program for HiperArc Card From: Craig Thompson <cthompson@wingnet.net> Date: 1998-07-10 12:13:10
OK. That's what the USR Top-Level Exec said April 28 in response to the
3COM Top 10 list that was sent to 3com several months ago. Due to the
architecture of the Netserver, certain problems such as Quake Lag simply
could not be 'fixed' past a certain point.
What has happened? I haven't heard anything about an 'agressive' trade-up
program. Has 3com dropped the ball? Are they working on this? Has
something been done, and I just don't know about it?
We would like to be able to tell our customers that these problems have
been fixed.
Thanks,
Craig Thompson
WingNET Internet Services,
P.O. Box 3000 // Cleveland, TN 37320-3000
423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5444 (f)
http://www.wingnet.net
The world of children's publishing is bunny eat bunny.
Subject:(usr-tc) ExcessiveHFAttenuation(12) From: Walt Gnann <wgnann@islc.net> Date: 1998-07-10 12:41:25
I see this error cropping up frequently in the X2 Status column in the
Performance Monitor in the TCM. Other slots in the chasis show good X2 and
v.90 connections. Just wondering what the problem could be, and whether a
fix or configuration tweak will improve the connections.
Quad modems at 5.10.9
4 MB NMC at 5.4.95
16 MB Netserver at 3.5.34
Thanks
Walt
Walter N. Gnann
ISLC, Manager
843.770.1000
843.770.1002 (fax)
wgnann@islc.net
http://www.islc.net
http://www.beaufortcomputerclub.org
Has anyone had any problems getting 3Com and Adtran ISDN modems to work with
the Total Control Hubs?
We attempted to get all ISDN calls terminate in the Quad Modems Yesterday
(2059 Bundle).
We promptly got complaints from some Adtran and 3Com ISDM Modem users saying
they could not connect.
Lee Reese
ATLNET Support
> > I have the unique opportunity of starting over with some new equipment, a new
> > users file, and a new radius in a few weeks. I'd like to do it right this time.
> >
> > I'm well versed with mysql, so Radiator looks very attractive to me. Is anyone
> > here using it yet?
I've been using Radiator with our TCs for some time now,
and am extremely happy with it:
1) It works, and works well.
2) It's feature-rich.
3) It's well-written (in Perl) so adding/modifying features is
straightforward.
4) Features are being added at a suprising rate (thanks, Mike!)
Just when you thing you've got everything you need, someone
comes up with a neat idea, and the author incorporates it into
the next version -- often within weeks.
5) As a corolarry to (4) - whenever I hack something useful into the
code, I send it to the author. Since he is receptive to adding new
features, it will often become come a part of the next release,
and I don't need to keep it as a "local mod."
> > Do you know if they offer any type of evaluations, even if we "deposit" our
> > credit card number with them for 30 days?
If you contact them directly, you can probably arrange for this.
> > How is performance compared to Merit radius?
Because it's written in Perl, it uses considerably more memory and CPU
than any C software. I was concerned about this at first, but found that
it wasn't a problem, at least for us. (We're running it on a Sparc 10 under
Solaris 2.5.1 with over 15K users.) In our environment, we'd probably be
running several Merit daemons, where we can handle everything we need
under a single Radiator process. (No mucking with the Radius ports on the
TC's to allow all our daemons to run on one server.)
We also like the fact that it runs on NT; occasionally we have need of that.
> I am keeping my eye on radiator as well. I just need to here more
> feedback. We use the Platypus billing system, and Radiator output records
> would have to be compatible.
I believe that the next release of Radiator will tie directly into the Platypus
SQL db. You might want to contact the author (Mike McCauley -
mikem@open.com.au) for details.
> I like the 3Com VSA stuff in Radiator. I am wondering if it has support for
> Postgres..........
Yup.
Hope this helps. Feel free to contact me for more info.
Phil Freed <pfreed@cybertours.com>
We,ve had this often. Whenever we tell the TELCO to check
the customers line they always find a ground or some other
type of interference. The TELCO usually gets it fixed.
blake
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, July 10, 1998 11:41 AM
I see this error cropping up frequently in the X2 Status column in the
Performance Monitor in the TCM. Other slots in the chasis show good X2 and
v.90 connections. Just wondering what the problem could be, and whether a
fix or configuration tweak will improve the connections.
Quad modems at 5.10.9
4 MB NMC at 5.4.95
16 MB Netserver at 3.5.34
Thanks
Walt
Walter N. Gnann
ISLC, Manager
843.770.1000
843.770.1002 (fax)
wgnann@islc.net
http://www.islc.net
http://www.beaufortcomputerclub.org
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At 10:22 PM 7/9/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Brian wrote:
>>
>> > > I am keeping my eye on radiator as well. I just need to here more
>> > > feedback. We use the Platypus billing system, and Radiator output
records
>> > > would have to be compatible. I like the 3Com VSA stuff in Radiator.
I am
>> > > wondering if it has support for Postgres..........
>> >
>> > You might want to look at RadiusNT. I know Platypus supports it at
>> > the DB level (no text file import junk to worry about). The latest
>> > supports VSA attrbiutes and works with many different DB backends.
>>
>> NT has not proven itself a reliable enough platform, in most cases.
>
>I'm not looking for a holy or OS war. We have over a 1000 customers using
>RadiusNT world wide. If RadiusNT wasn't reliable or stable (and that
includes
>NT itself) wouldn't something majorly have been brought up by now?
No, because people outside the UNIX world are just used to crappy servers.
John
John Powell, President john@jetcity.com
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Subject:(usr-tc) Multiple B-channels (MLPPP?) on TC Netserverq From: Brian Tackett <cym@acrux.net> Date: 1998-07-10 16:00:42
All,
I have the following TC Netserver (2 PRI's into it, 12 quadcards in)
"Total Control (tm) NETServer Card V.34/ISDN with Frame Relay V3.4.23"
I have a customer who wants to bond two B channels dialing in with an
Ascend Pipeline. Unfortunately, he happens to be the first of our
customers to want this, and some questions have arisen.
1/ Does the TC Netserver support MLPPP out of the box, or do we have to
explicitly enable it?
2/ In this case, all of our ports will answer either ISDN or POTS calls
and assign addresses out of a pool. Will this work with a dual-B
connection?
I'm sure these are trivial questions, but if someone could answer the
questions abovem or give me a pointer to the relevant documentation, I
would greatly appreciate it!
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Radius recommendations From: Dale E. Reed Jr. <daler@iea-software.com> Date: 1998-07-10 16:23:34
John Powell wrote:
>
> >> NT has not proven itself a reliable enough platform, in most cases.
> >
> >I'm not looking for a holy or OS war. We have over a 1000 customers using
> >RadiusNT world wide. If RadiusNT wasn't reliable or stable (and that
> includes
> >NT itself) wouldn't something majorly have been brought up by now?
>
> No, because people outside the UNIX world are just used to crappy servers.
Your response proves your ignorance to this. We have customers using RadiusNT
in large scale distributed client/server implementations with over 100,000
users. They are not "outside the UNIX world" and are not "used to crappy
servers".
Just because MS can't program a DNS server or some other applications on
NT didn't meet your needs, don't assume RadiusNT isn't stable or reliable.
--
Dale E. Reed Jr. (daler@iea-software.com)
_________________________________________________________________
IEA Software, Inc. | RadiusNT, Emerald, and NT FAQs
Internet Solutions for Today | http://www.iea-software.com
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) ExcessiveHFAttenuation(12) From: Mike Andrews <mandrews@termfrost.org> Date: 1998-07-10 17:13:48
On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Walt Gnann wrote:
> I see this error cropping up frequently in the X2 Status column in the
> Performance Monitor in the TCM. Other slots in the chasis show good X2 and
> v.90 connections. Just wondering what the problem could be, and whether a
> fix or configuration tweak will improve the connections.
That's a phone line impairment at the user's end -- probably an extra D/A
conversion. Their speed is probably topping out in the 24K to 28.8K range
too. There's nothing you can do about it at your end.
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Subject:(usr-tc) Hiper Arc chassis and nmc From: Terry Kennedy <terry@olypen.com> Date: 1998-07-10 17:30:32
All,
Just recieved 5th new chassis (bundle with 2 DSP's)
On this one nmc run/fail stays red after booting. Changed
the card with spare, same thing. The first 4 racks, which we
quickly assembled into 2 racks with dual power and 4 DSP's
exibited this when power supplies were installed but only one
was powered up. Do these racks expect tosee 2 power supplies
to keep nmc from running with an error. Other than the led, everything
appears to work fine.
Terry Kennedy
Forwarded from Radiator mailing list by mikem:
--- Forwarded mail from Stephan Forseilles <sf@skynet.be>
>--- Forwarded mail from usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
>
>Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 09:42:03 -0600 (MDT)
>From: Randy Cosby <dcosby@infowest.com>
>To: USR-TC@lists.xmission.com
>Subject: (usr-tc) Radius recommendations
>Reply-To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
>
>I have the unique opportunity of starting over with some new equipment, a new
>users file, and a new radius in a few weeks. I'd like to do it right this
>time.
>
>I'm well versed with mysql, so Radiator looks very attractive to me. Is
anyone
>here using it yet? I have a hard time using any Unix software
"sight-unseen".
>Do you know if they offer any type of evaluations, even if we "deposit" our
>credit card number with them for 30 days? How is performance compared
>to Merit radius?
I use radiator on Linux and Digital Unix, with MySQL and USR TC (as well as
CISCO 5200). It works, it's fast and support is a dream. What to ask more?
(Uuuuuuh a red corvette?) ;-)
--
Mike McCauley mikem@open.com.au
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24 Bateman St Hampton, VIC 3188 Australia Consulting and development
Phone, Fax: +61 3 9598-0985
http://www.open.com.au
Mike Andrews was heard to say:
>On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Walt Gnann wrote:
>
>> I see this error cropping up frequently in the X2 Status column in the
>> Performance Monitor in the TCM. Other slots in the chasis show good X2 and
>> v.90 connections. Just wondering what the problem could be, and whether a
>> fix or configuration tweak will improve the connections.
>
>That's a phone line impairment at the user's end -- probably an extra D/A
>conversion. Their speed is probably topping out in the 24K to 28.8K range
>too. There's nothing you can do about it at your end.
Really? I've seen this on a PRI chassis dialing back to itself... where
there ain't no D/A conversions. (FWIW)
--Ricky
Subject:(usr-tc) V.90 for Hiper DSP From: Alan D. Criado <acriado@elink.net> Date: 1998-07-10 20:07:54
Has anyone heard when 3com will be release the V.90 code for the Hiper DSP
cards?
Thanks.
Alan
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Radius recommendations From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-10 20:50:22
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Dale E. Reed Jr. wrote:
> Brian wrote:
> >
> > > > I am keeping my eye on radiator as well. I just need to here more
> > > > feedback. We use the Platypus billing system, and Radiator output records
> > > > would have to be compatible. I like the 3Com VSA stuff in Radiator. I am
> > > > wondering if it has support for Postgres..........
> > >
> > > You might want to look at RadiusNT. I know Platypus supports it at
> > > the DB level (no text file import junk to worry about). The latest
> > > supports VSA attrbiutes and works with many different DB backends.
> >
> > NT has not proven itself a reliable enough platform, in most cases.
>
> I'm not looking for a holy or OS war. We have over a 1000 customers using
> RadiusNT world wide. If RadiusNT wasn't reliable or stable (and that includes
> NT itself) wouldn't something majorly have been brought up by now?
I understand your point, and I am sure you have a good product. I didn't
mean to judge your product or make an assumption about it. I am mainly
talking about MS NT.
MS NT has not impressed me with its memory leaks, 10-20MB service packs,
crashes, speed, etc.
From an "integration" standpoint, unix is much more attractive to the ISP,
since the vast majority are UNIX based. It allows us to easier
communicate with programs, thru scripting, etc, and have more control over
the enviroment.
I was just making an opinion I'll admit. Some people embrace nt, I am one
of the ones who don't.
>
> --
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At 04:23 PM 7/10/98 -0700, you wrote:
>John Powell wrote:
>>
>> >> NT has not proven itself a reliable enough platform, in most cases.
>> >
>> >I'm not looking for a holy or OS war. We have over a 1000 customers using
>> >RadiusNT world wide. If RadiusNT wasn't reliable or stable (and that
>> includes
>> >NT itself) wouldn't something majorly have been brought up by now?
>>
>> No, because people outside the UNIX world are just used to crappy servers.
>
>Your response proves your ignorance to this. We have customers using
RadiusNT
>in large scale distributed client/server implementations with over 100,000
>users. They are not "outside the UNIX world" and are not "used to crappy
>servers".
>
>Just because MS can't program a DNS server or some other applications on
>NT didn't meet your needs, don't assume RadiusNT isn't stable or reliable.
Hey, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. One possible (and
likely) explanation for the lack of negative response from your customers
is that they don't expect any better. People don't expect much from NT, so
they don't report to you when the server crashes. Why should they? They
know it will. We make our NT server auto reboot every night, so then at
least we _know_ when it will be down.
John
John Powell, President john@jetcity.com
Jet City Online http://www.jetcity.com
Business Office: 206-281-1774
Customer Service: 425-820-7006, 1-888-747-6464
-> >
-> >I'm not looking for a holy or OS war. We have over a 1000 customers using
-> >RadiusNT world wide. If RadiusNT wasn't reliable or stable (and that
-> includes
-> >NT itself) wouldn't something majorly have been brought up by now?
-> No, because people outside the UNIX world are just used to crappy servers.
Get a life...
Jeff Binkley
ASA Network Computing
-> Just because MS can't program a DNS server or some other applications on NT
-> didn't meet your needs, don't assume RadiusNT isn't stable or reliable.
Dale,
Actually we run Microsoft's native DNS as a secondary domain controller for
over 50+ domains with it being the primary DNS for out customers (we tell them
to hit this one first) with over 100,000+ lookups per day, with no problems.
I'd hardly say we have a problem... Now I can't speak for this person though
but it does work in the real world on the Internet as an ISP resource...
Jeff Binkley
ASA Network Computing
Just thought I'd throw this out while we're on the topic. Theres a
freeware GNU C/C++ compiler for windows called gnu-win32 which will let
you compile most unix apps on your NT/95 box with minimum or no porting at
all:
http://www.cygnus.com/gnu-win32/
So for example you could compiled bind (named) to run a nameserver,
sendmail, qmail, etc, or whatever other services you want to run. In fact
you can even set up a shell system (bash/tcsh, ftp, telnet, blah) if you
care to :) The compiler comes with bash precompiled actually so you feel
like you're in unix from the get go.
- lv
You have to rewrite the code to include the vendor specific attributes.
krish
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On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Marcelo Souza wrote:
>
> How can I configure my Livingston Radius to log the connection
> speed of the customers connected to my TCs.
>
>
> - Marcelo
>
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On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Jeff Mcadams wrote:
> Thus spake Jamie Orzechowski
> >BTW: I was talking with a USR Level 2 support guy and he sais NETServers
> >will become unsupported this christmas ... but they will have an AMAZING
> >deal on HiPER ARC's because they are going to force the end users to upgrade
> >... so I guess that's a good thing ... =)
>
> Say WHAT?! You *are* kidding us, right? I hope? If USR/3Com pulls
> support for the Netservers by Christmas, I for one will start screaming
> bloody murder and cozy up really nice with my local Cisco rep. That is
> unless they make some *phenomenal* improvements to the HiPer equipment
> from what I've seen. At this point, the HiPer stuff just isn't up to
> snuff for what we use it for, our setup *requires* some of the protocol
> support that the netservers have that the HiPer doesn't at this point
> (yeah, yeah, its in beta, I know) and I have serious doubts that the
> support for these protocols (MPIP in specific) will be ready for prime
> time and still leave us enough time to get all of our equipment switched
> over...This isn't even considering the cost of upgrading (even with an
> AMAZING deal, it will still cost us money, how much you want to bet?)
>
I am not sure about this - Yes the HiPer arc in beta does support
everything that the NETServer does and much more. Why don't you give it
a try.
regards
krish
> Someone please tell me that this is a miscommunication somewhere along
> the way.
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Radius recommendations From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-11 10:07:07
On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Jeff Binkley wrote:
> -> Just because MS can't program a DNS server or some other applications on NT
> -> didn't meet your needs, don't assume RadiusNT isn't stable or reliable.
>
> Dale,
>
> Actually we run Microsoft's native DNS as a secondary domain controller for
> over 50+ domains with it being the primary DNS for out customers (we tell them
> to hit this one first) with over 100,000+ lookups per day, with no problems.
> I'd hardly say we have a problem... Now I can't speak for this person though
> but it does work in the real world on the Internet as an ISP resource...
>
Microsoft doesn't use MS DNS, so that right there gives me a red flag.
They have since up'ed security, but I always got a laugh out of telnetting
to atbd.microsoft.com (there primary dns), and seeing the UNIX issue file.
> Jeff Binkley
> ASA Network Computing
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Radius recommendations From: Dale E. Reed Jr. <daler@iea-software.com> Date: 1998-07-11 10:08:19
John Powell wrote:
>
>> >> NT has not proven itself a reliable enough platform, in most cases.
> >> >
> >> >I'm not looking for a holy or OS war. We have over a 1000 customers using
> >> >RadiusNT world wide. If RadiusNT wasn't reliable or stable (and that
> >> includes
> >> >NT itself) wouldn't something majorly have been brought up by now?
> >>
> >> No, because people outside the UNIX world are just used to crappy servers.
> >
> >Your response proves your ignorance to this. We have customers using
> RadiusNT
> >in large scale distributed client/server implementations with over 100,000
> >users. They are not "outside the UNIX world" and are not "used to crappy
> >servers".
> >
> >Just because MS can't program a DNS server or some other applications on
> >NT didn't meet your needs, don't assume RadiusNT isn't stable or reliable.
>
> Hey, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. One possible (and
> likely) explanation for the lack of negative response from your customers
> is that they don't expect any better. People don't expect much from NT, so
> they don't report to you when the server crashes. Why should they? They
> know it will. We make our NT server auto reboot every night, so then at
> least we _know_ when it will be down.
But I didn't say our customers don't report problems. No software
package is perfect and we have to update and resolve problems like all
the others. I said "if RadiusNT wasn't reliable or stable, wouldn't
soemthing major have been brought up by now". That means if WindowsNT
couldn't take the load, or RadiusNT had major problems, then our
customers
would not be able to use our software. Our customers have the same
high demands and expectations out of their mission critical applications
that you do. Don't assume they settle for some "crappy" software,
because
I'll be the first to correct you: they don't.
BTW, I have many WindowsNT mission critical machines here running
from SQL Server to RadiusNT and DNS that haven't been rebooted
in months. These are heavily used machines built correctly and
work. This is NOT an exception as most of out customer can atest
to this as well.
--
Dale E. Reed Jr. (daler@iea-software.com)
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Radius recommendations From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-11 10:10:43
On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, John Powell wrote:
> At 04:23 PM 7/10/98 -0700, you wrote:
> >John Powell wrote:
> >>
> >> >> NT has not proven itself a reliable enough platform, in most cases.
> >> >
> >> >I'm not looking for a holy or OS war. We have over a 1000 customers using
> >> >RadiusNT world wide. If RadiusNT wasn't reliable or stable (and that
> >> includes
> >> >NT itself) wouldn't something majorly have been brought up by now?
> >>
> >> No, because people outside the UNIX world are just used to crappy servers.
> >
> >Your response proves your ignorance to this. We have customers using
> RadiusNT
> >in large scale distributed client/server implementations with over 100,000
> >users. They are not "outside the UNIX world" and are not "used to crappy
> >servers".
> >
> >Just because MS can't program a DNS server or some other applications on
> >NT didn't meet your needs, don't assume RadiusNT isn't stable or reliable.
>
> Hey, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. One possible (and
> likely) explanation for the lack of negative response from your customers
> is that they don't expect any better. People don't expect much from NT, so
> they don't report to you when the server crashes. Why should they? They
> know it will. We make our NT server auto reboot every night, so then at
> least we _know_ when it will be down.
indeed NT is "young". AmigaOS was doing full pre-emptive multi-tasking
back in 1986. I don't even think windows has made it to where Amiga was
in 1986. UNIX of any type, is built on knowledge of 25+ years. Even just
looking at BSD the code base started 15+ years ago, and was built upon
networking and key concepts that are part of OS's today. MS operating
systems never had very sound networking, and only recently have started
scrambling to become more of what UNIX already is.
To me, NT is a code kludge, bloated really bad.
>
> John
>
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Subject:(usr-tc) Memory leak in USR Radius ? From: Jeff Binkley <jeff.binkley@asacomp.com> Date: 1998-07-11 11:33:00
-> We are running USR Radius (Ver. 5.5.3) under NT, and have expirienced that
-> the Radius memory use increases over time. Starting at 6000 k and building
-> up to 130000 k in about a week.
->
-> Why is that ?
->
-> Can it be stoped ?
->
-> We are not running the service version of Radius, and the service is not
-> installed.
-> Our +1000 users, are kept in MS access, ver.7.0.
Yep, it's a problem. Has been for the past couple of releases. 3Com
is aware of it and thought they had it fixed in 5.5.3. I'd suggest
nagging them about it again. I do a reboot every two weeks to avoid
running out of memory. Right now I am attempting to upsize the database
to MS SQL Server 6.5. I would have like to have used our Sybase 11.5
server but 3Com was so kind to use field names longer than 30 characters
in their schema, which Sybase won't handle.
Jeff Binkley
ASA Network Computing
-> >
-> > Hey, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. One possible (and >
-> likely) explanation for the lack of negative response from your customers >
-> is that they don't expect any better. People don't expect much from NT, so >
-> they don't report to you when the server crashes. Why should they? They >
-> know it will. We make our NT server auto reboot every night, so then at >
-> least we _know_ when it will be down.
->
-> indeed NT is "young". AmigaOS was doing full pre-emptive multi-tasking back
-> in 1986. I don't even think windows has made it to where Amiga was in 1986.
-> UNIX of any type, is built on knowledge of 25+ years. Even just looking at
-> BSD the code base started 15+ years ago, and was built upon networking and
-> key concepts that are part of OS's today. MS operating systems never had
-> very sound networking, and only recently have started scrambling to become
-> more of what UNIX already is.
->
-> To me, NT is a code kludge, bloated really bad.
I'm going to drop out of this thread because I've been down this road
far too many times before and there is no end in sight. I'd expect
Dale would prefer to see the listserv put to better use than this.
I'll just agree to disagree and leave it at that ...
Jeff Binkley
ASA Network Computing
The bundles run about $10,000 here in the states.
At 04:49 PM 7/11/98 +0200, you wrote:
>I am from Denmark, and my company are currently using the "OLD" TC's. We are
>about to buy some more, and I would like to know what kind of pricing you
>guys get.
>
>What is the price for the Hiper Bundle you all talk about ?
>
>We have been offered some very good prices on some of the "OLD" TC's, but we
>would rather like some of the New Hiper stuff.
>
>Does any of you have some recomendations, as to what we should select - NEW
>Hiper or "OLD" standard.
>
>Some one told me a while back, that 3com has stoped developing for the "OLD"
>chassis, is that true ?
>
>
>Venlig hilsen / Best regards
>
>Nicolaj Ottsen
>no@tjantik.dk
>Tjantik ApS
>
>
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Memory leak in USR Radius ? From: Tony Loosle <tony@tcsourceone.com> Date: 1998-07-11 15:06:38
Does this same problem occur in the service version of the program??
Jeff Binkley wrote:
> -> We are running USR Radius (Ver. 5.5.3) under NT, and have expirienced that
> -> the Radius memory use increases over time. Starting at 6000 k and building
> -> up to 130000 k in about a week.
> ->
> -> Why is that ?
> ->
> -> Can it be stoped ?
> ->
> -> We are not running the service version of Radius, and the service is not
> -> installed.
> -> Our +1000 users, are kept in MS access, ver.7.0.
>
> Yep, it's a problem. Has been for the past couple of releases. 3Com
> is aware of it and thought they had it fixed in 5.5.3. I'd suggest
> nagging them about it again. I do a reboot every two weeks to avoid
> running out of memory. Right now I am attempting to upsize the database
> to MS SQL Server 6.5. I would have like to have used our Sybase 11.5
> server but 3Com was so kind to use field names longer than 30 characters
> in their schema, which Sybase won't handle.
>
> Jeff Binkley
> ASA Network Computing
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Memory leak in USR Radius ? From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-11 16:08:08
On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Jeff Binkley wrote:
> -> We are running USR Radius (Ver. 5.5.3) under NT, and have expirienced that
> -> the Radius memory use increases over time. Starting at 6000 k and building
> -> up to 130000 k in about a week.
> ->
> -> Why is that ?
> ->
> -> Can it be stoped ?
> ->
> -> We are not running the service version of Radius, and the service is not
> -> installed.
> -> Our +1000 users, are kept in MS access, ver.7.0.
>
> Yep, it's a problem. Has been for the past couple of releases. 3Com
> is aware of it and thought they had it fixed in 5.5.3. I'd suggest
> nagging them about it again. I do a reboot every two weeks to avoid
> running out of memory. Right now I am attempting to upsize the database
> to MS SQL Server 6.5. I would have like to have used our Sybase 11.5
> server but 3Com was so kind to use field names longer than 30 characters
> in their schema, which Sybase won't handle.
So the USR Radius will log to other Datbases besides Access (such as Ms
sql, etc?). I didn't know it had that capibility, I thought it worked
only with Access.
>
> Jeff Binkley
> ASA Network Computing
>
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Subject:RE: (usr-tc) Memory leak in USR Radius ? From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-11 16:10:11
On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Nicolaj Ottsen wrote:
> Thanks for your answer,
>
> If it is not to much work for you, please report back to the list or
> directly to me , with your expirences on upsizing to MS SQL 6.5. I myself
> have been wanting to do that for a long time but never got around to it.
>
> Now that we are on the Radius subject, I have a question on Radius
> authentication time.
>
> On my system it takes about 7-10 sec in averege to authenticate a user, this
> is from the time where the modems have finished handshaking, to the users
> modem/adapter is registred on the network.
>
> First of all I find the to be rather slow, and second of all it seems like
> most og the time spend, is spend by the Netserver and not the Radius server.
>
> It take about 2-5 sec for the netserver to send an authentication requets to
> the Radius.
>
> Is that normal ?
I think telling your ARC/netserver to try PAP authentication first would
help. I think by default it tries chap first, which is one more needless
step if all you run is pap.
Brian
>
> Venlig hilsen / Best regards
>
> Nicolaj Ottsen
> no@tjantik.dk
> Tjantik ApS
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> > [mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Jeff Binkley
> > Sent: Saturday, July 11, 1998 18:33
> > To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> > Subject: (usr-tc) Memory leak in USR Radius ?
> >
> >
> > -> We are running USR Radius (Ver. 5.5.3) under NT, and have
> > expirienced that
> > -> the Radius memory use increases over time. Starting at 6000 k
> > and building
> > -> up to 130000 k in about a week.
> > ->
> > -> Why is that ?
> > ->
> > -> Can it be stoped ?
> > ->
> > -> We are not running the service version of Radius, and the
> > service is not
> > -> installed.
> > -> Our +1000 users, are kept in MS access, ver.7.0.
> >
> > Yep, it's a problem. Has been for the past couple of releases. 3Com
> > is aware of it and thought they had it fixed in 5.5.3. I'd suggest
> > nagging them about it again. I do a reboot every two weeks to avoid
> > running out of memory. Right now I am attempting to upsize the database
> > to MS SQL Server 6.5. I would have like to have used our Sybase 11.5
> > server but 3Com was so kind to use field names longer than 30 characters
> > in their schema, which Sybase won't handle.
> >
> > Jeff Binkley
> > ASA Network Computing
> >
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Subject:RE: (usr-tc) limiting ISDN to a single B-channel From: Nicolaj Ottsen <no@tjantik.dk> Date: 1998-07-11 16:22:27
Set the Port Limit to 1, under the PPP settings.
Venlig hilsen / Best regards
Nicolaj Ottsen
no@tjantik.dk
Tjantik ApS
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> [mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Jay Nitikman
> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 1998 22:09
> To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> Subject: (usr-tc) limiting ISDN to a single B-channel
>
>
> I'm trying to limit ISDN to a a single B-channel via RADIUS. How do I
> do this? I thought I once saw this in 3COM documentation, but now I
> can't find the info.
>
> --
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We are running USR Radius (Ver. 5.5.3) under NT, and have expirienced that
the Radius memory use increases over time. Starting at 6000 k and building
up to 130000 k in about a week.
Why is that ?
Can it be stoped ?
We are not running the service version of Radius, and the service is not
installed.
Our +1000 users, are kept in MS access, ver.7.0.
Venlig hilsen / Best regards
Nicolaj Ottsen
no@tjantik.dk
Tjantik ApS
I am from Denmark, and my company are currently using the "OLD" TC's. We are
about to buy some more, and I would like to know what kind of pricing you
guys get.
What is the price for the Hiper Bundle you all talk about ?
We have been offered some very good prices on some of the "OLD" TC's, but we
would rather like some of the New Hiper stuff.
Does any of you have some recomendations, as to what we should select - NEW
Hiper or "OLD" standard.
Some one told me a while back, that 3com has stoped developing for the "OLD"
chassis, is that true ?
Venlig hilsen / Best regards
Nicolaj Ottsen
no@tjantik.dk
Tjantik ApS
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Memory leak in USR Radius ? From: Dale E. Reed Jr. <daler@iea-software.com> Date: 1998-07-11 17:32:29
Nicolaj Ottsen wrote:
>
> If it is not to much work for you, please report back to the list or
> directly to me , with your expirences on upsizing to MS SQL 6.5. I myself
> have been wanting to do that for a long time but never got around to it.
RadiusNT has full support for SQL Server, Sybase, and Oracle. And
it doesn't have a memory leak. :)
--
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_________________________________________________________________
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Subject:RE: (usr-tc) Memory leak in USR Radius ? From: Jeff Binkley <jeff.binkley@asacomp.com> Date: 1998-07-11 17:50:00
-> If it is not to much work for you, please report back to the list or
-> directly to me , with your expirences on upsizing to MS SQL 6.5. I myself
-> have been wanting to do that for a long time but never got around to it.
-> Now that we are on the Radius subject, I have a question on Radius
-> authentication time.
->
-> On my system it takes about 7-10 sec in averege to authenticate a user, this
-> is from the time where the modems have finished handshaking, to the users
-> modem/adapter is registred on the network.
->
-> First of all I find the to be rather slow, and second of all it seems like
-> most og the time spend, is spend by the Netserver and not the Radius server.
->
-> It take about 2-5 sec for the netserver to send an authentication requets to
-> the Radius.
->
-> Is that normal ?
->
-> Venlig hilsen / Best regards
I've never timed it that colsely but from what I've seen in
other conversations, that doesn't seem too far out. I'd
expect slightly faster response times but not greatly faster.
Jeff Binkley
ASA Network Computing
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Memory leak in USR Radius ? From: Jeff Binkley <jeff.binkley@asacomp.com> Date: 1998-07-11 17:52:00
-> > -> We are running USR Radius (Ver. 5.5.3) under NT, and have expirienced
-> that
-> > -> the Radius memory use increases over time. Starting at 6000 k and
-> building
-> > -> up to 130000 k in about a week.
-> > ->
-> > -> Why is that ?
-> > ->
-> > -> Can it be stoped ?
-> > ->
-> > -> We are not running the service version of Radius, and the service is
-> not > -> installed.
-> > -> Our +1000 users, are kept in MS access, ver.7.0.
-> >
-> > Yep, it's a problem. Has been for the past couple of releases. 3Com >
-> is aware of it and thought they had it fixed in 5.5.3. I'd suggest >
-> nagging them about it again. I do a reboot every two weeks to avoid >
-> running out of memory. Right now I am attempting to upsize the database >
-> to MS SQL Server 6.5. I would have like to have used our Sybase 11.5 >
-> server but 3Com was so kind to use field names longer than 30 characters >
-> in their schema, which Sybase won't handle.
->
-> So the USR Radius will log to other Datbases besides Access (such as Ms sql,
-> etc?). I didn't know it had that capibility, I thought it worked only with
-> Access.
Notice I said "attempting". I'll keep you posted. In theory it
might work but when I tried it once before, I found they were
using some MS Access Jet calls which weren't supported in SQL.
This was a few releases back so I am trying it again.
Jeff Binkley
ASA Network Computing
I was just wondering if anyone had a HOWTO for getting the Total Control to
run with MS ACCESS for radius??? I am running it on unix right now ... I
tried MS ACCESS but never got it to even install ... if anyone knows a
sitewith a howto or can explain it please do.. thanks!
BTW: I was talking with a USR Level 2 support guy and he sais NETServers
will become unsupported this christmas ... but they will have an AMAZING
deal on HiPER ARC's because they are going to force the end users to upgrade
... so I guess that's a good thing ... =)
-----Original Message-----
>-> > -> We are running USR Radius (Ver. 5.5.3) under NT, and have
expirienced
>-> that
>-> > -> the Radius memory use increases over time. Starting at 6000 k and
>-> building
>-> > -> up to 130000 k in about a week.
>-> > ->
>-> > -> Why is that ?
>-> > ->
>-> > -> Can it be stoped ?
>-> > ->
>-> > -> We are not running the service version of Radius, and the service
is
>-> not > -> installed.
>-> > -> Our +1000 users, are kept in MS access, ver.7.0.
>-> >
>-> > Yep, it's a problem. Has been for the past couple of releases. 3Com
>
>-> is aware of it and thought they had it fixed in 5.5.3. I'd suggest >
>-> nagging them about it again. I do a reboot every two weeks to avoid >
>-> running out of memory. Right now I am attempting to upsize the database
>
>-> to MS SQL Server 6.5. I would have like to have used our Sybase 11.5 >
>-> server but 3Com was so kind to use field names longer than 30 characters
>
>-> in their schema, which Sybase won't handle.
>->
>-> So the USR Radius will log to other Datbases besides Access (such as Ms
sql,
>-> etc?). I didn't know it had that capibility, I thought it worked only
with
>-> Access.
>
>Notice I said "attempting". I'll keep you posted. In theory it
>might work but when I tried it once before, I found they were
>using some MS Access Jet calls which weren't supported in SQL.
>This was a few releases back so I am trying it again.
>
> Jeff Binkley
> ASA Network Computing
>
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Thanks for your answer,
If it is not to much work for you, please report back to the list or
directly to me , with your expirences on upsizing to MS SQL 6.5. I myself
have been wanting to do that for a long time but never got around to it.
Now that we are on the Radius subject, I have a question on Radius
authentication time.
On my system it takes about 7-10 sec in averege to authenticate a user, this
is from the time where the modems have finished handshaking, to the users
modem/adapter is registred on the network.
First of all I find the to be rather slow, and second of all it seems like
most og the time spend, is spend by the Netserver and not the Radius server.
It take about 2-5 sec for the netserver to send an authentication requets to
the Radius.
Is that normal ?
Venlig hilsen / Best regards
Nicolaj Ottsen
no@tjantik.dk
Tjantik ApS
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> [mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Jeff Binkley
> Sent: Saturday, July 11, 1998 18:33
> To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> Subject: (usr-tc) Memory leak in USR Radius ?
>
>
> -> We are running USR Radius (Ver. 5.5.3) under NT, and have
> expirienced that
> -> the Radius memory use increases over time. Starting at 6000 k
> and building
> -> up to 130000 k in about a week.
> ->
> -> Why is that ?
> ->
> -> Can it be stoped ?
> ->
> -> We are not running the service version of Radius, and the
> service is not
> -> installed.
> -> Our +1000 users, are kept in MS access, ver.7.0.
>
> Yep, it's a problem. Has been for the past couple of releases. 3Com
> is aware of it and thought they had it fixed in 5.5.3. I'd suggest
> nagging them about it again. I do a reboot every two weeks to avoid
> running out of memory. Right now I am attempting to upsize the database
> to MS SQL Server 6.5. I would have like to have used our Sybase 11.5
> server but 3Com was so kind to use field names longer than 30 characters
> in their schema, which Sybase won't handle.
>
> Jeff Binkley
> ASA Network Computing
>
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Thus spake Jamie Orzechowski
>BTW: I was talking with a USR Level 2 support guy and he sais NETServers
>will become unsupported this christmas ... but they will have an AMAZING
>deal on HiPER ARC's because they are going to force the end users to upgrade
>... so I guess that's a good thing ... =)
Say WHAT?! You *are* kidding us, right? I hope? If USR/3Com pulls
support for the Netservers by Christmas, I for one will start screaming
bloody murder and cozy up really nice with my local Cisco rep. That is
unless they make some *phenomenal* improvements to the HiPer equipment
from what I've seen. At this point, the HiPer stuff just isn't up to
snuff for what we use it for, our setup *requires* some of the protocol
support that the netservers have that the HiPer doesn't at this point
(yeah, yeah, its in beta, I know) and I have serious doubts that the
support for these protocols (MPIP in specific) will be ready for prime
time and still leave us enough time to get all of our equipment switched
over...This isn't even considering the cost of upgrading (even with an
AMAZING deal, it will still cost us money, how much you want to bet?)
Someone please tell me that this is a miscommunication somewhere along
the way.
--
Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com
Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848
IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456
well ... I am not kidding .. I was asking about quake lag and he started
talking about how the ppp stack code was 6 years old and would have to be
completely redone ... he said NETServers will becom unsupported hardwas this
christmas and they will FORCE users to upgrade to HiPERARC's by this
"INCREDIBLE DEAL" and he mention INCREDIBLE many times =) ... but would give
any prices ... he said they just want everyone to upgrade to HiPER ARC's
ASAP ... guess that's the reason for the deal ... I don;t remeber his name
but he was a level 2 support and a team leader also ...
-----Original Message-----
>Thus spake Jamie Orzechowski
>>BTW: I was talking with a USR Level 2 support guy and he sais NETServers
>>will become unsupported this christmas ... but they will have an AMAZING
>>deal on HiPER ARC's because they are going to force the end users to
upgrade
>>... so I guess that's a good thing ... =)
>
>Say WHAT?! You *are* kidding us, right? I hope? If USR/3Com pulls
>support for the Netservers by Christmas, I for one will start screaming
>bloody murder and cozy up really nice with my local Cisco rep. That is
>unless they make some *phenomenal* improvements to the HiPer equipment
>from what I've seen. At this point, the HiPer stuff just isn't up to
>snuff for what we use it for, our setup *requires* some of the protocol
>support that the netservers have that the HiPer doesn't at this point
>(yeah, yeah, its in beta, I know) and I have serious doubts that the
>support for these protocols (MPIP in specific) will be ready for prime
>time and still leave us enough time to get all of our equipment switched
>over...This isn't even considering the cost of upgrading (even with an
>AMAZING deal, it will still cost us money, how much you want to bet?)
>
>Someone please tell me that this is a miscommunication somewhere along
>the way.
>--
>Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com
>Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848
>IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456
>
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The easy way out is to configure it using quick setup. This can be done
if you are at the console port.
All you have to do is to setup the modems, the network, and the radius server
You can also do this using cli with the following commands
Modems:
set cha slot < slot where the modem is > owner yes
Network
add ip network <name of the network> address <ipadd>/netmask
add ip default gateway <ipaddress of the gateway>
Radius server
set authen primary_server <ipaddress> primary_secret <secret key>
That is to it
krish
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On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Eric wrote:
> Does anyone have a any information on configuring a HARC? I want to get
> it to the point where it'll do RADIUS and just pick up some calls, then I
> can play with the other settings. The HARC definitely has a lot more
> settings than the NETServer.
>
> Eric
>
>
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Subject:(usr-tc) RE: (USR-TC) MEMORY LEAK IN USR RADIUS ? From: Jeff Binkley <jeff.binkley@asacomp.com> Date: 1998-07-12 00:55:00
-> >
-> > First of all I find the to be rather slow, and second of all it seems like
-> > most og the time spend, is spend by the Netserver and not the Radius
-> server. >
-> > It take about 2-5 sec for the netserver to send an authentication requets
-> to > the Radius.
-> >
-> > Is that normal ?
->
-> I think telling your ARC/netserver to try PAP authentication first would
-> help. I think by default it tries chap first, which is one more needless
-> step if all you run is pap.
I don't believe the Netservers do CHAP, only PAP. I could be mistaken
though.
Jeff Binkley
ASA Network Computing
No you need no special routing to be done on the HiPer aRC,
you do need an IP pool if you want the HiPer aRC to assign the IP address
add ip pool in <ip add> size <number>
This pool is default public so everyone will use it - now you need not
assigne address from radius. Proxy for the pool address are done by default.
krish
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On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Jim Heng wrote:
> Is there any special routing that needs to be done when setting up the ip
> pool?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tatai SV Krishnan <tkrishna@bubba.ae.usr.com>
> To: Eric <ELorenzo@MediaCity.com>
> Cc: USR Total Control List <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com>
> Date: Sunday, July 12, 1998 1:06 PM
> Subject: Re: (usr-tc) HARC configuration?
>
>
> >The easy way out is to configure it using quick setup. This can be done
> >if you are at the console port.
> >
> >All you have to do is to setup the modems, the network, and the radius
> server
> >
> >You can also do this using cli with the following commands
> >
> >
> >Modems:
> >
> >set cha slot < slot where the modem is > owner yes
> >
> >Network
> >
> >add ip network <name of the network> address <ipadd>/netmask
> >add ip default gateway <ipaddress of the gateway>
> >
> >Radius server
> >
> >set authen primary_server <ipaddress> primary_secret <secret key>
> >
> >That is to it
> >
> >krish
> >
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> > \ Network System Engineer \ ( : - : )
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> > - Rick Kulawiec
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> >
> >On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Eric wrote:
> >
> >> Does anyone have a any information on configuring a HARC? I want to get
> >> it to the point where it'll do RADIUS and just pick up some calls, then I
> >> can play with the other settings. The HARC definitely has a lot more
> >> settings than the NETServer.
> >>
> >> Eric
> >>
> >>
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Thus spake Tatai SV Krishnan
>I am not sure about this - Yes the HiPer arc in beta does support
>everything that the NETServer does and much more. Why don't you give it
>a try.
Replied to Tatai in private email...executive summary
Because new software and hardware from networking vendors sucks and we
refuse to use new software and hardware until its proven itself, and
IMO, the HiPer Arc is far from having done that.
Not mentioned in email...
I kind of resent the suggestion that we try the HiPer when I've said
flat out that we *can't* use this equipment yet because it doesn't have
the protocol support we need. Trying it here would be, at this point,
plugging it into a chassis and looking at the command line interface and
not getting any useful service out of it. That is, unless you were
suggesting I get ahold of the beta code for them, which I'd really
rather not do.
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IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456
The tech at USR said they will stop supportig NETServers this christmas
because the HiPER ARC code will be done and out of beta ...
-----Original Message-----
>Thus spake Tatai SV Krishnan
>>I am not sure about this - Yes the HiPer arc in beta does support
>>everything that the NETServer does and much more. Why don't you give it
>>a try.
>
>Replied to Tatai in private email...executive summary
>
>Because new software and hardware from networking vendors sucks and we
>refuse to use new software and hardware until its proven itself, and
>IMO, the HiPer Arc is far from having done that.
>
>Not mentioned in email...
>
>I kind of resent the suggestion that we try the HiPer when I've said
>flat out that we *can't* use this equipment yet because it doesn't have
>the protocol support we need. Trying it here would be, at this point,
>plugging it into a chassis and looking at the command line interface and
>not getting any useful service out of it. That is, unless you were
>suggesting I get ahold of the beta code for them, which I'd really
>rather not do.
>--
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>Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848
>IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456
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Subject:(usr-tc) HARC configuration? From: Eric <elorenzo@mediacity.com> Date: 1998-07-12 10:20:30
Does anyone have a any information on configuring a HARC? I want to get
it to the point where it'll do RADIUS and just pick up some calls, then I
can play with the other settings. The HARC definitely has a lot more
settings than the NETServer.
Eric
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) RE: (USR-TC) MEMORY LEAK IN USR RADIUS ? From: Brian McIntire <brian_mcintire@mw.3com.com> Date: 1998-07-12 11:04:39
NetServer cards do both chap and pap. You can set chap or pap to be
attempted first. SET CHAPFST OFF/ON. SET PAP ON
As far as how long it takes to send a request for authentication; it
happens almost immediately. The lag is usually the time it takes to look
up the username and password in whatever database you are running. The
slower the network, the computer, and the database software the slower the
response. An average authentication time would be close to 6-8 seconds,
depending on the above conditions. If chap is used and/or attempted first
the average could be closer to 8-11.
jeff.binkley@asacomp.com (Jeff Binkley) on 07/12/98 12:55:00 AM
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-> >
-> > First of all I find the to be rather slow, and second of all it seems
like
-> > most og the time spend, is spend by the Netserver and not the Radius
-> server. >
-> > It take about 2-5 sec for the netserver to send an authentication
requets
-> to > the Radius.
-> >
-> > Is that normal ?
->
-> I think telling your ARC/netserver to try PAP authentication first would
-> help. I think by default it tries chap first, which is one more
needless
-> step if all you run is pap.
I don't believe the Netservers do CHAP, only PAP. I could be mistaken
though.
Jeff Binkley
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Hiper Arc chassis and nmc From: Brian McIntire <brian_mcintire@mw.3com.com> Date: 1998-07-12 11:24:11
If a second power supply is installed but not powered up you will always
see a red hub status light. Other likely causes are exceeeding recommended
operating temperatures, not plugging in the fan tray, or having a bad fan
on the fan tray. Also, load TCM and see if any cards, front or back, are
yellow. If so reboot/reseat.
"Terry Kennedy" <terry@olypen.com> on 07/10/98 07:30:32 PM
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All,
Just recieved 5th new chassis (bundle with 2 DSP's)
On this one nmc run/fail stays red after booting. Changed
the card with spare, same thing. The first 4 racks, which we
quickly assembled into 2 racks with dual power and 4 DSP's
exibited this when power supplies were installed but only one
was powered up. Do these racks expect tosee 2 power supplies
to keep nmc from running with an error. Other than the led, everything
appears to work fine.
Terry Kennedy
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Keep in mind session limiting does not work unless you enable login
tracking. If you want to make sure you have set up your RADIUS to do all
types of accounting then set up your radius clients as follows:
IP Addr Port Secret Type
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 1645 xxxxxx NetServer 3.x or HiPer
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 1646 " "
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 1645 Accounting Server (for sucessful logins)
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 1646 Accounting Server
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 1646 NMC
jeff.binkley@asacomp.com (Jeff Binkley) on 07/03/98 03:15:00 PM
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-> K Mitchell was heard to say:
-> >I'm running a HiPer chassis/USR S&A Server and having trouble with my
users
-> >being unable to login, with the reported problem as;
-> >[RADSERV] Failed login: username Maximum Sessions Exceeded
-> >under an event ID of 43
-> >The only way I can allow them to log in is to delete the account and
-> >re-enter it as a new account. I've not set any sort of session limit,
other
-> >than 1 concurrent session. Why is it doing this, and what can I do to
stop
-> it?
->
-> Turn off concurrent session limiting... it doesn't work (and never has.)
There are two other ways to solve this. Stop and restart the S/A server.
This clears the session counters in the USERS table. The other option
is to manually change the user's entry in the USERS table back to 0.
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) How do I set the timezone of a HyperDSP? From: Brian McIntire <brian_mcintire@mw.3com.com> Date: 1998-07-12 12:02:27
The timezone on the HiPer ARC is not currently configurable. It is GMT be
default.
Jay Nitikman <jay@cruzio.com> on 07/02/98 06:00:14 AM
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When I enable NTP on my HyperDSP the machine loads the wrong time. I
suspect that this is a timezone issue. Is there a way to set the
timezone of the router?
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) RIPv2 and ARC From: Brian McIntire <brian_mcintire@mw.3com.com> Date: 1998-07-12 12:05:13
You may have received a response on this already but here goes:
set ip network xxxx routing_protocol ripv2
reconfigure ip network xxxx interface eth:1
save all
Ernie Pritchard <elp@inline.com> on 07/01/98 09:00:21 PM
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How dos one enable ripv2 globally over the system? Were using radius to
setup calls so there are no users on the arc database. Ive poured over
the doc for the arc and ive turned on rip routing but as far as I can
tell the only way to specify ripv2 is on a per network name basis. Any
suggestions? Also im pretty sure that everything is ripv1 right now as
sho ip network settings lists it as v1 and its listed that way in the
harm. On the radius server theres only listen-broadcast nothing about
v2
Thanks,
Ernie Pritchard
Inline Connections.
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) ADSL Line Card Configuration From: Brian McIntire <brian_mcintire@mw.3com.com> Date: 1998-07-12 12:09:43
The upstream and downstream constellations on the AxCell card on the HUB
can be configured.
Correct values with ver 1.17 are 8,16,32,64,128,256,& 256uc. 8 is 1.544
(T1 bandwith)
Ayan George <ayan@datasys.net> on 07/01/98 10:46:16 AM
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Would anyone be kind enough to explain what the dwn_constellation and
up_constellation settings are and how they and the baud_rate effect
overall throughput?
The manuals don't seem to cover this.
-Ayan
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The exact name of the file is NSMGR342.zip
You can look for it by name or click on software libray. Click on
NetServer 8/16start search. Go to page 2 and look for file 27 of 40
David OBrien <growler@ac.net> on 06/30/98 03:19:38 PM
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Does this software exist, and where is it hidden? ;)
I keep seeing references to it in the docs but in over
2 years of TC-ing have yet to actually see it.
TIA
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) HARC configuration? From: Brian McIntire <brian_mcintire@mw.3com.com> Date: 1998-07-12 12:55:35
Your question was not very specific but the best way to configure a HiPer
ARC from scratch is to run quick setup.
The best way to re-configure or quickly configure a HiPer ARC is to connect
to the console and type delete config. Once the config has been deleted it
will prompt you if you wish to run quick setup. You can also type
_QUICKSETUP from the cli but deleting config has proven more reliable.
"Eric" <ELorenzo@MediaCity.com> on 07/12/98 12:20:30 PM
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Does anyone have a any information on configuring a HARC? I want to get
it to the point where it'll do RADIUS and just pick up some calls, then I
can play with the other settings. The HARC definitely has a lot more
settings than the NETServer.
Eric
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) HARC configuration? From: Jim Heng <jheng@pcpartner.net> Date: 1998-07-12 13:06:43
Is there any special routing that needs to be done when setting up the ip
pool?
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Cc: USR Total Control List <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com>
>The easy way out is to configure it using quick setup. This can be done
>if you are at the console port.
>
>All you have to do is to setup the modems, the network, and the radius
server
>
>You can also do this using cli with the following commands
>
>
>Modems:
>
>set cha slot < slot where the modem is > owner yes
>
>Network
>
>add ip network <name of the network> address <ipadd>/netmask
>add ip default gateway <ipaddress of the gateway>
>
>Radius server
>
>set authen primary_server <ipaddress> primary_secret <secret key>
>
>That is to it
>
>krish
>
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>On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Eric wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have a any information on configuring a HARC? I want to get
>> it to the point where it'll do RADIUS and just pick up some calls, then I
>> can play with the other settings. The HARC definitely has a lot more
>> settings than the NETServer.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>
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All,
I've made this post pretty much verbatim on other lists. Maybe it's a
good time for it now.
Remember that personal perception is absolutely impossible to avoid in an
industry as complex as that in which we make our livelihood. Let's take
two engineers, each with the same knowledge level and roughly the same
experience. Let's also take Product X and Product Y, two products which
provide the same service. Odds are, when you ask the twoe ngineers what
they thought, their answers will vary wildly. Maybe Engineer A had a
rotten time installing Product X, or maybe Mr B had Product Y keep
crashing and rebooting, etc etc ad nauseum.
Point is, the VAST majority of "OS wars" on mailing lists come down to
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. And personal experience doesn't mean a lot as far as
empirical evidence goes. personally, I've had bad experiences with Windows
NT. I think it's a cutting edge OS that has a few years to go before it
shakes the bugs out to an acceptable leve. BUT, I know people with as much
knowledge or more than myself who have had nothing but success with
Windows NT.
So stop yelling, stop trying to force your preferences down someone else's
throat, and stick to your area of expertise. If you ahte NT, why even
respond to a thread that involves RadiusNT? And likewise UNIX, or whatever
:P
On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Marcelo Souza wrote:
>
> How can I configure my Livingston Radius to log the connection
> speed of the customers connected to my TCs.
>
>
> - Marcelo
You will have to hack the server in order to support the Vendor Specific
attributes from 3com. I succesfully hacked the Merit Radius, and now it
supports all the stuff. If you think it is useful, drop me an E-mail and
I'll send you the patch.
rgds
-vsv
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Sounds like the incredible deal will have to be a free trade in, because
even then it wont be useful to all of us.
- lv
On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Jamie Orzechowski wrote:
> well ... I am not kidding .. I was asking about quake lag and he started
> talking about how the ppp stack code was 6 years old and would have to be
> completely redone ... he said NETServers will becom unsupported hardwas this
> christmas and they will FORCE users to upgrade to HiPERARC's by this
> "INCREDIBLE DEAL" and he mention INCREDIBLE many times =) ... but would give
> any prices ... he said they just want everyone to upgrade to HiPER ARC's
> ASAP ... guess that's the reason for the deal ... I don;t remeber his name
> but he was a level 2 support and a team leader also ...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com>
> To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com>
> Date: Saturday, July 11, 1998 10:12 PM
> Subject: (usr-tc) Netservers becoming unsupported?!
>
>
> >Thus spake Jamie Orzechowski
> >>BTW: I was talking with a USR Level 2 support guy and he sais NETServers
> >>will become unsupported this christmas ... but they will have an AMAZING
> >>deal on HiPER ARC's because they are going to force the end users to
> upgrade
> >>... so I guess that's a good thing ... =)
> >
> >Say WHAT?! You *are* kidding us, right? I hope? If USR/3Com pulls
> >support for the Netservers by Christmas, I for one will start screaming
> >bloody murder and cozy up really nice with my local Cisco rep. That is
> >unless they make some *phenomenal* improvements to the HiPer equipment
> >from what I've seen. At this point, the HiPer stuff just isn't up to
> >snuff for what we use it for, our setup *requires* some of the protocol
> >support that the netservers have that the HiPer doesn't at this point
> >(yeah, yeah, its in beta, I know) and I have serious doubts that the
> >support for these protocols (MPIP in specific) will be ready for prime
> >time and still leave us enough time to get all of our equipment switched
> >over...This isn't even considering the cost of upgrading (even with an
> >AMAZING deal, it will still cost us money, how much you want to bet?)
> >
> >Someone please tell me that this is a miscommunication somewhere along
> >the way.
> >--
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> >IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456
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So far, the HiperARC would be useless to us since we have trouble getting certain
ISDN modems (Adtran & 3Com) to connect to the Quad modems. Unless I am
mistaken, the HiPerARCS do not have ISDN on-board.
Lee
Laszlo Vecsey wrote:
> Sounds like the incredible deal will have to be a free trade in, because
> even then it wont be useful to all of us.
>
> - lv
>
> On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Jamie Orzechowski wrote:
>
> > well ... I am not kidding .. I was asking about quake lag and he started
> > talking about how the ppp stack code was 6 years old and would have to be
> > completely redone ... he said NETServers will becom unsupported hardwas this
> > christmas and they will FORCE users to upgrade to HiPERARC's by this
> > "INCREDIBLE DEAL" and he mention INCREDIBLE many times =) ... but would give
> > any prices ... he said they just want everyone to upgrade to HiPER ARC's
> > ASAP ... guess that's the reason for the deal ... I don;t remeber his name
> > but he was a level 2 support and a team leader also ...
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com>
> > To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com>
> > Date: Saturday, July 11, 1998 10:12 PM
> > Subject: (usr-tc) Netservers becoming unsupported?!
> >
> >
> > >Thus spake Jamie Orzechowski
> > >>BTW: I was talking with a USR Level 2 support guy and he sais NETServers
> > >>will become unsupported this christmas ... but they will have an AMAZING
> > >>deal on HiPER ARC's because they are going to force the end users to
> > upgrade
> > >>... so I guess that's a good thing ... =)
> > >
> > >Say WHAT?! You *are* kidding us, right? I hope? If USR/3Com pulls
> > >support for the Netservers by Christmas, I for one will start screaming
> > >bloody murder and cozy up really nice with my local Cisco rep. That is
> > >unless they make some *phenomenal* improvements to the HiPer equipment
> > >from what I've seen. At this point, the HiPer stuff just isn't up to
> > >snuff for what we use it for, our setup *requires* some of the protocol
> > >support that the netservers have that the HiPer doesn't at this point
> > >(yeah, yeah, its in beta, I know) and I have serious doubts that the
> > >support for these protocols (MPIP in specific) will be ready for prime
> > >time and still leave us enough time to get all of our equipment switched
> > >over...This isn't even considering the cost of upgrading (even with an
> > >AMAZING deal, it will still cost us money, how much you want to bet?)
> > >
> > >Someone please tell me that this is a miscommunication somewhere along
> > >the way.
> > >--
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On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Terry Kennedy wrote:
> Krish,
> how does one get a hold of the beta code? Is this code V.90?
>
>
> I am not sure about this - Yes the HiPer arc in beta does support
> everything that the NETServer does and much more. Why don't you give it
> a try.
>
The Beta is for HiPer ARC and chassis products, yes it does include v.90
code on the dsp. Now you have to go to
http://totalservice.usr.com
There is a beta NDA - you can submit it on line. That will send you back
an email with details - which you should send back to bata@elroy.usr.com
Then you will be given an username and password to access the code.
regards
krish
> regards
>
> krish
>
>
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At 11:59 AM 7/12/98 -0500, Brian McIntire wrote:
>Keep in mind session limiting does not work unless you enable login
>tracking. If you want to make sure you have set up your RADIUS to do all
>types of accounting then set up your radius clients as follows:
>
>
>IP Addr Port Secret Type
>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 1645 xxxxxx NetServer 3.x or HiPer
>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 1646 " "
>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 1645 Accounting Server (for sucessful logins)
>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 1646 Accounting Server
>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 1646 NMC
Login tracking is enabled and the client is setup as above. The problem
was not limiting sessions itself, but reporting session ends so that a
later login doesn't get denied by radius, thinking that it's a 2nd
concurrent session.
After numerous reports of USR S&A server's inability to do this reliably,
I've discontinued session limiting until radius can do what it's supposed to.
Thanks,
Kirk
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Subject:RE: (usr-tc) HiPerARC ISDN was Netservers becoming unsupported?! From: Mike Wronski <mike@coredump.ae.usr.com> Date: 1998-07-13 09:10:11
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
>[mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Lee Reese
>Sent: Sunday, July 12, 1998 7:59 PM
>To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
>Subject: Re: (usr-tc) Netservers becoming unsupported?!
>
>
>So far, the HiperARC would be useless to us since we have trouble
>getting certain
>ISDN modems (Adtran & 3Com) to connect to the Quad modems. Unless I am
>mistaken, the HiPerARCS do not have ISDN on-board.
>
>
You are correct, HARC does not have the ability to terminate ISDN calls.
That functionality was supplied on the netserver by a daughter board. If
you are having problems with some ISDN TA's and the QUADS, do you have
tickets open
on those issues?
-m
Krish,
how does one get a hold of the beta code? Is this code V.90?
I am not sure about this - Yes the HiPer arc in beta does support
everything that the NETServer does and much more. Why don't you give it
a try.
regards
krish
> The tech at USR said they will stop supportig NETServers this
> christmas
> because the HiPER ARC code will be done and out of beta ...
I just called to check on this and the tech I spoke to said they are
going to stop making them at the end of the year, but they are not going
to stop supporting them.
Of course I have been told stories before....
Any one of the 3Com people like to wade in on this?
Steve
Steve McConnell EMJ Internet
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Subject:RE: (usr-tc) Memory leak in USR Radius ? From: Phil Le Clercq <phil.le.clercq@cinergy.net> Date: 1998-07-13 09:57:30
We had a similar experience with USR's Radius, with Access it just
hogged memory something chronic and it got way out of hand. So we moved
to RadiusNt using SQL and to be honest have not looked back once. Apart
from SQL itself being more efficient RadiusNT does the job great, had no
problems with it except for the standard learning curve with new
software and its database access times are far quicker than USR's
Security and Accounting Server also the support is good, I found 3Com
support lacking when it came to Radius.
The actual time it takes for a dial-up user to authenticate is just so
much faster with RadiusNT and that first log on time is what the
customer will see and if it is too long, will get annoyed with it, hell
I did! ;)
I'm not into OS wars, each to his own, but it does the job for us and
that is what counts.
Phil
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Saturday, July 11, 1998 6:03 PM
Thanks for your answer,
If it is not to much work for you, please report back to the list or
directly to me , with your expirences on upsizing to MS SQL 6.5. I
myself
have been wanting to do that for a long time but never got around to it.
Now that we are on the Radius subject, I have a question on Radius
authentication time.
On my system it takes about 7-10 sec in averege to authenticate a user,
this
is from the time where the modems have finished handshaking, to the
users
modem/adapter is registred on the network.
First of all I find the to be rather slow, and second of all it seems
like
most og the time spend, is spend by the Netserver and not the Radius
server.
It take about 2-5 sec for the netserver to send an authentication
requets to
the Radius.
Is that normal ?
Venlig hilsen / Best regards
Nicolaj Ottsen
no@tjantik.dk
Tjantik ApS
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> From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> [mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Jeff Binkley
> Sent: Saturday, July 11, 1998 18:33
> To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> Subject: (usr-tc) Memory leak in USR Radius ?
>
>
> -> We are running USR Radius (Ver. 5.5.3) under NT, and have
> expirienced that
> -> the Radius memory use increases over time. Starting at 6000 k
> and building
> -> up to 130000 k in about a week.
> ->
> -> Why is that ?
> ->
> -> Can it be stoped ?
> ->
> -> We are not running the service version of Radius, and the
> service is not
> -> installed.
> -> Our +1000 users, are kept in MS access, ver.7.0.
>
> Yep, it's a problem. Has been for the past couple of releases. 3Com
> is aware of it and thought they had it fixed in 5.5.3. I'd suggest
> nagging them about it again. I do a reboot every two weeks to avoid
> running out of memory. Right now I am attempting to upsize the
database
> to MS SQL Server 6.5. I would have like to have used our Sybase 11.5
> server but 3Com was so kind to use field names longer than 30
characters
> in their schema, which Sybase won't handle.
>
> Jeff Binkley
> ASA Network Computing
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If the rumors I'm seeing on this and other lists are true, 3Com will
discontinue support (software updates?) for the Netserver by the end of the
year. Can anyone confirm/deny this?
I have been buying the Hiper chassis for a while now, and have "spare" ARC's
and NMC's, because I'm cramming the HDM's into one chassis.
Would I be ahead to put my extra ARC's in my older Netserver-based boxes?
Will I have problems with features (x2/v.90), or is the switchover pretty
straightforward? Will this help with the dreaded "Quake Lag" problems?
And.. Aplogies for starting the "Radius recommendations" thread - I did not
intend it to go the direction it did. NT is just not an option for me at
this time, and I'm quite pleased with FreeBSD. Nuthin' personal against
Bill or anything. I'm just into open source software. I'm evaluating
"Radiator", and so far, it looks very nice. I'm sure NTRadius is nice too.
:)
Thanks,
Randy Cosby <dcosby@infowest.com>
Vice President
InfoWest Global Internet Services, Inc.
(435)674-0165 http://www.infowest.com
Hi There .. I am trying to get the S&A server working here ... right now I
have readius on UNIX ... I was just wondering this ... when I setup the S&A
server, where does it read it's password from?? it's being ionstalled on a
NT 4.0 server ... but all my passwords are on the unix machine ... can the S
& A server read a /etc/password or do I have to sotre my users password on
the NT box?? if they go onto the NT box HOW do I store them???? ...
Subject:RE: (usr-tc) Livingston Radius and TC From: Jose de Leon <jadiel@thevision.net> Date: 1998-07-13 14:23:30
Can you tell me which source file and function to hack so I can do my own
hacking?
Thanks,
Jose
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Sent: Sunday, July 12, 1998 5:15 AM
On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Marcelo Souza wrote:
>
> How can I configure my Livingston Radius to log the connection
> speed of the customers connected to my TCs.
>
>
> - Marcelo
You will have to hack the server in order to support the Vendor Specific
attributes from 3com. I succesfully hacked the Merit Radius, and now it
supports all the stuff. If you think it is useful, drop me an E-mail and
I'll send you the patch.
rgds
-vsv
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) ADSL Line Card Configuration From: Ayan George <ayan@datasys.net> Date: 1998-07-13 16:53:25
Thanks for the response. I don't think I clearly asked my question
however.
What I am looking for an a definition for ``constellation''.
What is it?
-Ayan
On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Brian McIntire wrote:
> The upstream and downstream constellations on the AxCell card on the HUB
> can be configured.
> Correct values with ver 1.17 are 8,16,32,64,128,256,& 256uc. 8 is 1.544
> (T1 bandwith)
>
>
>
>
> Ayan George <ayan@datasys.net> on 07/01/98 10:46:16 AM
>
> Please respond to usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
>
> To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> cc:
> Subject: (usr-tc) ADSL Line Card Configuration
>
>
>
>
>
> Would anyone be kind enough to explain what the dwn_constellation and
> up_constellation settings are and how they and the baud_rate effect
> overall throughput?
>
> The manuals don't seem to cover this.
>
> -Ayan
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Subject:(usr-tc) In Call Failed on Slot 1, DS1 1, DS0 0, Cause Code 0 From: Andres Kroonmaa <andre@ml.ee> Date: 1998-07-13 19:03:29
Hi,
"In Call Failed on Slot 1, DS1 1, DS0 0, Cause Code 0"
Does anyone see these in their traplogs?
Hiper DSP, sw 1.1.1 + HARC.
After some workdays DSP cards start getting such errors, customers
would get busy signal. The only cure for some time is to hard-reset
the DSP card. After a week they show up again, and eventually start
appearing more often
Strangely, this is somehow connected to Hiper-ARC, because in the same
chassis, Netserver is servicing 3 DSP cards, and they give such errors
much-much more rarely (although they do)
any hint on where to look?
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>... he said NETServers will becom unsupported hardwas this
>christmas and they will FORCE users to upgrade to HiPERARC's ...
Geesh... I just got used to the Netserver! :)
After recently upgrading to the Hiperarc with DSP modems we have
experienced problems with our users that have telepath modems. Most can
connect fine, some at 48,800 speeds and have no real disconnect problems.
Only problem is it moves around like it is a 9600 connection. Has anyone
else experienced this problem and is there a cure. I have heard telepaths
don't like trashy phone lines could this be the only problem? I called 3Com
tech support today and was only on hold the better part of 2 hours before I
gave up and hung up. But hey I did enjoy Fleetwood Mac's, The Dance and part
of REO Speedwagons greatest hits. I may call back tomorrow just to listen to
The Glen Miller Orchestra!!!
Greg Owens
Magnolia InterNet Services
Ross,
I have emailed radius and other source code before and no one had
problems. In any case I plan not to do that in the future.
If the users had done a search for vsa or for radius on
http://interproc.ae.usr.com/tkb.html - they could have got the ftp link
and could have downloaded it from there.
This code is based on livingston 1.16 it is not 2.x based. Livingston
2.x is actually a product that you have to buy from Livingston/Lucent -
so even if I had the code and did modifications I will not be able to
distribute it.
krish
\ T.S.V. Krishnan \
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\ 3Com ............ \
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The Yadda Yadda Search - for simple anwers - http://interproc.ae.usr.com/tkb.html
Any Sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable for a feature.
- Rick Kulawiec
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Ross Becker wrote:
> Tatai SV Krishnan wrote:
> >
> > Here you go, the source with modifications
> >
> > krish
>
> Tatai- please do not e-mail whole binaries to the
> whole list; it's bad form. BTW- this appears to be a
> hacked livingston 1.16; if that is correct, then
> there is a significant CERT advisory related to all
> RADIUS servers derived from livingston 1.16. I would
> not run any RADIUS derived directly from 1.16. I believe
> that the 2.x livingston RADIUS had fixes. The original
> poster mentioning he had hacked the merit server- I would
> be much more interested in seeing that.
>
> --Ross
> beckerr@softrends.com
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On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Stefanita Valcu wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Tatai SV Krishnan wrote:
>
> > Here you go, the source with modifications
> >
> > krish
>
> Is your server handling the Reboot-Free-Request and Resource-Query-Request
> ?
This is plain old radius code based on 1.1.6 - it will just ignore
version 2 messages but will not crash.
krish
>
> vsv
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> Calea Victoriei 155, bl.D1, sc.7, et.3, sector 1, 71102, Bucuresti, Romania
> tel: +40-1-6590696, fax: +40-1-3122745, E-mail: vsv@dnt.ro
>
> List -
> Has anyone used the Quad modem in sync mode?
> I am evaluating modem chassis models, and 3com/USR website says it can be
> done. If not I chose some other chassis. My needs are V.32 sync (Bisync
> protocol) at 9600/ optionally 19200.
> TIA
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Livingston Radius and TC From: Ross Becker <beckerr@softrends.com> Date: 1998-07-14 14:51:08
Tatai SV Krishnan wrote:
>
> Here you go, the source with modifications
>
> krish
Tatai- please do not e-mail whole binaries to the
whole list; it's bad form. BTW- this appears to be a
hacked livingston 1.16; if that is correct, then
there is a significant CERT advisory related to all
RADIUS servers derived from livingston 1.16. I would
not run any RADIUS derived directly from 1.16. I believe
that the 2.x livingston RADIUS had fixes. The original
poster mentioning he had hacked the merit server- I would
be much more interested in seeing that.
--Ross
beckerr@softrends.com
O.k.. I give up. What is the CORRECT way to bring HDM trunks that have been
put into the soft-busy state back to an active (IE: they answer) state?
Restore would be my logical guess, but..no go.
thanks,
Randy Cosby <dcosby@infowest.com>
Vice President
InfoWest Global Internet Services, Inc.
(435)674-0165 http://www.infowest.com
This is a Telco issue, you need to have both PRI circuits in a hunt group,
so one will roll over into the next.
-Frank
-----Original Message-----
>
>Perhaps someone here can help.
>
>I've got a 2861 bundle:
>
>(1) NMC
>(1) Hiper Arc
>(2) DSPs
>
>I've got (2) PRI lines, one for each DSP.
>
>When my first DSP card reaches 100% utilization, my customers start to get
>a busy signal. Aparrently it never switches over to the second DSP card to
>handle the remaining customers.
>
>How do I configure the chassis and/or cards so that when the first DSP is
>completely full (100% utilitzation) the second DSP card starts answering
>the calls coming in?
>
>I appreciate your help on this.
>
>Sincerely, Alan D. Criado
>
>
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Subject:(usr-tc) Multiple Hiper DSPs From: Alan D. Criado <acriado@elink.net> Date: 1998-07-14 20:35:08
Perhaps someone here can help.
I've got a 2861 bundle:
(1) NMC
(1) Hiper Arc
(2) DSPs
I've got (2) PRI lines, one for each DSP.
When my first DSP card reaches 100% utilization, my customers start to get
a busy signal. Aparrently it never switches over to the second DSP card to
handle the remaining customers.
How do I configure the chassis and/or cards so that when the first DSP is
completely full (100% utilitzation) the second DSP card starts answering
the calls coming in?
I appreciate your help on this.
Sincerely, Alan D. Criado
At 08:35 PM 7/14/98 -0400, Alan D. Criado wrote:
>
>Perhaps someone here can help.
>
>I've got a 2861 bundle:
>
>(1) NMC
>(1) Hiper Arc
>(2) DSPs
>
>I've got (2) PRI lines, one for each DSP.
>
>When my first DSP card reaches 100% utilization, my customers start to get
>a busy signal. Aparrently it never switches over to the second DSP card to
>handle the remaining customers.
>
>How do I configure the chassis and/or cards so that when the first DSP is
>completely full (100% utilitzation) the second DSP card starts answering
>the calls coming in?
Sounds like your telco screwed up and don't have the first line rolling
over to the second.
Kirk
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Multiple Hiper DSPs From: Alan D. Criado <acriado@elink.net> Date: 1998-07-14 20:53:52
Thanks Frank.
I'll get in touch with my telco right away.
Alan
At 05:49 PM 7/14/98 -0700, Frank Basso wrote:
>This is a Telco issue, you need to have both PRI circuits in a hunt group,
>so one will roll over into the next.
>
>-Frank
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alan D. Criado <ACriado@elink.net>
>To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com>
>Date: Tuesday, July 14, 1998 5:41 PM
>Subject: (usr-tc) Multiple Hiper DSPs
>
>
>>
>>Perhaps someone here can help.
>>
>>I've got a 2861 bundle:
>>
>>(1) NMC
>>(1) Hiper Arc
>>(2) DSPs
>>
>>I've got (2) PRI lines, one for each DSP.
>>
>>When my first DSP card reaches 100% utilization, my customers start to get
>>a busy signal. Aparrently it never switches over to the second DSP card to
>>handle the remaining customers.
>>
>>How do I configure the chassis and/or cards so that when the first DSP is
>>completely full (100% utilitzation) the second DSP card starts answering
>>the calls coming in?
>>
>>I appreciate your help on this.
>>
>>Sincerely, Alan D. Criado
>>
>>
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On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Tatai SV Krishnan wrote:
> Here you go, the source with modifications
>
> krish
Is your server handling the Reboot-Free-Request and Resource-Query-Request
?
vsv
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Subject:(usr-tc) 64K but not 128K ISDN. why? From: Leon McCalla <ascend@caribbeanlink.com> Date: 1998-07-14 23:13:25
ever since i put this v.90 code on my chassis, I haven't been able to get
128K. I called Solunet techsupport today and they were very helpful but
after tweaking the heck out of the modem still no 128K ISDN.
I think that the ISDN calles are answered directly by the netserver so i
don't know what to look for on the netserver.
can anyone help?
Leon
-> Thanks Frank.
->
-> I'll get in touch with my telco right away.
If they were ordered that way then make sure you do an "In Service"
command to the HiPerDSP.
Jeff Binkley
ASA Network Computing
Has anyone experienced any connection issues with Zyxels and the Total
Control Netserver? We are unable to connect to I2 with the Zyxels
however all other routers are able to connect to this port. Total
Services answer was our I2 port was bad and that we needed to replace
the board, however we can not afford the down time. Any other
suggestions or other known issues with the Zyxel's?
Joe Kvidera, MCP
Solutions Group Corporation
mailto:joe.kvidera@solutionsgroup.net
http://www.solutionsgroup.net
Ph: (612) 929-3670
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Multiple Hiper DSPs From: Alan D. Criado <acriado@elink.net> Date: 1998-07-15 09:53:18
Hi Jeff. Yes, they are configured to hunt. I opened a ticket report with
the Telco last night. At first they too were unable to get it to hunt from
the first PRI to the second PRI, it was ringing busy instead of switching
over. Then they busied out each channel in the second Hiper DSP's PRI and
put them back in service. Right after taking them off the busy state the
hunting started to work. Wierd.
Just out of curiosity; how do you issue that "In Service" command you
mentioned below?
Thank you.
Alan
At 11:41 PM 7/14/98 -0500, Jeff Binkley wrote:
>-> Thanks Frank.
>->
>-> I'll get in touch with my telco right away.
>
>If they were ordered that way then make sure you do an "In Service"
>command to the HiPerDSP.
>
>Jeff Binkley
>ASA Network Computing
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Second PRI problems From: Jay Nakamura <jnakamur@kiva.net> Date: 1998-07-15 15:38:09
At 04:10 PM 6/15/98 -0400, you wrote:
>We just got our second pri installed and the phone company, ICG, is telling
>us that they "could not loop up to the CSU." They said when they take the
>loopback down, the get a clear signal, but cannot loop up to the CSU, and
>told us to contact our phone vendor. Now the primary PRI works just fine.
>When we have 23 calls into the hub, we get a all circuits are busy error.
>The second PRI is configured identical to the primary. Is there something
>that I am missing, or do we have a bad card?
Make sure that span is configured to "respond to remote loopback"
If it's not, the Telco won't be able to loop the USR.
Also, make sure your D-channel is up, and span and all B channels are
in-service.
If all that is correct and the telco tells you that it's been turned up,
the second PRI is probably not in hunt.
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Second PRI problems From: Andrew Aken <ajaken@globaleyes.net> Date: 1998-07-15 16:37:36
Telnet into the hub and do a LIST CHASSIS. Make sure that the owner of
the card is YES.
Jay Nakamura wrote:
>
> At 04:10 PM 6/15/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >We just got our second pri installed and the phone company, ICG, is telling
> >us that they "could not loop up to the CSU." They said when they take the
> >loopback down, the get a clear signal, but cannot loop up to the CSU, and
> >told us to contact our phone vendor. Now the primary PRI works just fine.
> >When we have 23 calls into the hub, we get a all circuits are busy error.
> >The second PRI is configured identical to the primary. Is there something
> >that I am missing, or do we have a bad card?
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On 15 Jul 98, at 8:44, Joe Kvidera <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com> wrote:
> Has anyone experienced any connection issues with Zyxels and the Total
> Control Netserver? We are unable to connect to I2 with the Zyxels
> however all other routers are able to connect to this port. Total
> Services answer was our I2 port was bad and that we needed to replace
> the board, however we can not afford the down time. Any other
> suggestions or other known issues with the Zyxel's?
Contact Zyxel, they might have newer flash for your Prestige. Solved
problems for me.
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Andres Kroonmaa mail: andre@online.ee
Network Manager
Organization: MicroLink Online Tel: 6308 909
Tallinn, Sakala 19 Pho: +372 6308 909
Estonia, EE0001 http://www.online.ee Fax: +372 6308 901
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Subject:(usr-tc) Possible fix for HiperDSP modem 1 in down-up state ? From: Robert von Bismarck <rvb@petrel.ch> Date: 1998-07-15 18:04:41
Greetings,
We had some trouble for a while with the 1st modem of some HiPerDSP
cards staying in the down - up state when I did a list conn on the
associated ARC. We finally solved this problem by making a mistake (!).
I had to reset the configuration of several DSP's and forgot to put the
modems into Round-Robin. So they stayed in "Fixed Assignment" and, POOF,
the problem went away, my MRTG graphs showed that all my modems went up
when I reset all the modems with the new config !!!
Is this a known fix for this bug ?
Regards,
Robert von Bismarck
PS : I had the telco set my hunt group to cyclic, so that the modems get
picked up in a simili-roundrobin fashion, so as to equalize the load on
all the ports...
Subject:RE: (usr-tc) Second PRI problems From: Chris Peltier <cpeltier@iectech.com> Date: 1998-07-15 19:04:15
>
>
>We just got our second pri installed and the phone company, ICG, is
>telling
>us that they "could not loop up to the CSU." They said when they take
>the
>loopback down, the get a clear signal, but cannot loop up to the CSU,
>and
>told us to contact our phone vendor. Now the primary PRI works just
>fine.
>When we have 23 calls into the hub, we get a all circuits are busy
>error.
>The second PRI is configured identical to the primary. Is there
>something
>that I am missing, or do we have a bad card?
Make sure that the Hyper DSP trunk settings doesn't ignore a DSX loop
>command. I think it ignores the loop up command by default.
Thus spake Marcelo Souza
> Hi can I block Collect Calls in the HDSP?
Uhm...perhaps I'm a bit confused, but how are you going to have a
collect call go through to a modem? Doesn't that require the operator
to, like, actually talk to someone before the call goes through?
To answer your question, I doubt there is a way to do so within the
system itself, I don't know of anything that distinguishes a Collect
Call from any other.
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At 07:38 PM 7/15/98 -0400, Jeff Mcadams wrote...
>Thus spake Marcelo Souza
>> Hi can I block Collect Calls in the HDSP?
>
>Uhm...perhaps I'm a bit confused, but how are you going to have a
>collect call go through to a modem? Doesn't that require the operator
>to, like, actually talk to someone before the call goes through?
>
>To answer your question, I doubt there is a way to do so within the
>system itself, I don't know of anything that distinguishes a Collect
>Call from any other.
Sorry to jump in, but since we're speaking about Brazil, this question seem to be related to R2 signaling (we've a "almost" blue-book R2 digital standard here).
In R2, the CO switch would send a II-8 signal in a "collect call" case, so the RAS box can "refuse" the call. Not sure in T1 how it is done, but I think there is a similar "message" (in our case, is in a "out-of-band" channel, 16, not 'in each channel' like seem to be the case in T1, but more like ISDN).
Marcelo, the bad news to you is that some CO here in Brazil don't send the II-8 signal at all :-(
[], <O-O>
Julio Arruda
Bay Networks - Where Information Flows
First things first -- in case nobody else noticed, v.90 is out for the
HDM's at long last.. :)
Anyway, I noticed something disturbing earlier today on the one ARC I have
in service.
We're using the "Port-Limit" attribute in Radius (Livingston 2.01 w/ some
of Krish's VSA stuff shoehorned in) to limit ISDN callers from starting
Multilink sessions. There's multiple "DEFAULT" entries keyed to Unix
groups, so that the limit is set to 2 for people in the fastisdn group,
and set to 1 for everyone else.
I caught someone running a multilink session today on our ARC (4.0.29)
that was not authorized for it. Oops.
Our NETservers (3.7.24) do correctly stop people from doing this.
The v.90 ARC+HDM release that came out today has a new build of ARC code
-- 4.0.30. Any of you 3com people know if this is fixed in it?
It's too early for me to tell since I've only had the code on there a few
hours, but I thought everyone deserved a heads-up about it in case their
users were trying to do something stupid, or in case *I* did something
stupid in my config. ;-) If I do run into it again I'll let y'all know.
Mike Andrews (MA12) icq 6602506 -------------- mandrews@dcr.net
Senior Systems/Network Administrator --- mandrews@termfrost.org
Digital Crescent, Frankfort, KY ----- http://www.termfrost.org/
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."
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On a hiper chassis with (10) v1.0.8 DSPs and (2) v4.0.29 ARCs, upgrading the
NMC to v5.5.5 caused 1/2 of the DSPs (slots 1,2,5,9,10) to drop their callers
( or reboot, not sure yet ).
Is this a known issue or just me?
Marshall Morgan
Internet Doorway, Inc. (aka NETDOOR)
http://www.netdoor.com
601.969.1434 Ext. #28 | Fax 601.969.3838 | 800.952.1570 Ext. #28
Thus spake Mike Andrews
>We're using the "Port-Limit" attribute in Radius (Livingston 2.01 w/ some
>of Krish's VSA stuff shoehorned in) to limit ISDN callers from starting
>Multilink sessions. There's multiple "DEFAULT" entries keyed to Unix
>groups, so that the limit is set to 2 for people in the fastisdn group,
>and set to 1 for everyone else.
Port-Limit (at least on the netservers, not sure about the HDM's) won't
stop people from using Multilink PPP, it *will* stop them from using
more than one channel, but they can quite happily use MP on a single
channel and everything work just hunky dory.
You probably don't want to stop MultiLink from happening as more and
more systems are defaulting to using MP and so you'll get more and more
tech support calls on why someone isn't able to connect and you'll have
to talk them through turning off MP in their stack. Better, IMHO, to
let them use MP, but just limit them to one channel in the bundle, which
is exactly what Port-Limit does.
>Our NETservers (3.7.24) do correctly stop people from doing this.
You might want to double check this, because I suspect they behave the
same way.
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How can I tell what firmware ver the modems in my netserver 16 are
currently running? If I telnet in to one of them, is there a command to
check this?
Thanks,
Greg Coffey CoffeyNet 307-234-5443
142 S. Center St. www.coffey.com
Casper, WY 82601
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
>[mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Mike Andrews
>Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 1998 11:27 PM
>To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
>Subject: (usr-tc) ARC multilink PPP glitch
>
>We're using the "Port-Limit" attribute in Radius (Livingston 2.01 w/ some
>of Krish's VSA stuff shoehorned in) to limit ISDN callers from starting
>Multilink sessions. There's multiple "DEFAULT" entries keyed to Unix
>groups, so that the limit is set to 2 for people in the fastisdn group,
>and set to 1 for everyone else.
>
>I caught someone running a multilink session today on our ARC (4.0.29)
>that was not authorized for it. Oops.
>
>Our NETservers (3.7.24) do correctly stop people from doing this.
>
It would seem that in your configs that the majority of your users should
not be allowed MLPPP. If this is the case, I would remove the Port-Limit
entry in that "DEFAULT" RADIUS entry and leave it in the fastisdn one.. You
can then set
the same setting on the DEFAULT user on your HARC. "set user default
port-limit 1". The default user setting will keep the limit to 1 channel and
only be overridden by the RADIUS attribute if present.
I will also look into the problem that you reported above.
-m
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Jeff Mcadams wrote:
> Thus spake Mike Andrews
> >We're using the "Port-Limit" attribute in Radius (Livingston 2.01 w/ some
> >of Krish's VSA stuff shoehorned in) to limit ISDN callers from starting
> >Multilink sessions. There's multiple "DEFAULT" entries keyed to Unix
> >groups, so that the limit is set to 2 for people in the fastisdn group,
> >and set to 1 for everyone else.
>
> Port-Limit (at least on the netservers, not sure about the HDM's) won't
> stop people from using Multilink PPP, it *will* stop them from using
> more than one channel, but they can quite happily use MP on a single
> channel and everything work just hunky dory.
OK... I wasn't very clear here. ;-) It's dual-channel that I'm worried
about. Single-channel MLPPP is fine with me. Several people are doing
that with no problems. So I think we're both still talking about the same
thing.
The problem was the ARC allowed a dual-channel call for someone that it
wasn't supposed to. The NETserver syslogs the usual "max link count
reached on this bundle" message. The ARC lets 'em do it anyway. Two
sessions, same IP address, same session start time, both ANI numbers point
at his ISDN line...
Mike Andrews (MA12) icq 6602506 -------------- mandrews@dcr.net
Senior Systems/Network Administrator --- mandrews@termfrost.org
Digital Crescent, Frankfort, KY ----- http://www.termfrost.org/
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."
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Thus spake Mike Andrews
>OK... I wasn't very clear here. ;-) It's dual-channel that I'm worried
>about. Single-channel MLPPP is fine with me. Several people are doing
>that with no problems. So I think we're both still talking about the same
>thing.
Ok, sounds like it. :)
>The problem was the ARC allowed a dual-channel call for someone that it
>wasn't supposed to. The NETserver syslogs the usual "max link count
>reached on this bundle" message. The ARC lets 'em do it anyway. Two
>sessions, same IP address, same session start time, both ANI numbers point
>at his ISDN line...
Uhm...this sounds like he's running two seperate bundles from what
you're saying here...depending on how you interpret Port-Limit, this
could be the correct behavior. If you interpret Port-Limit as purely
just the max number of channels *within an MP bundle*, then the ARC is
doing the right thing, and the Netserver isn't. If you're using
Port-Limit as just the max number of ports that a specific userid can
have on a specific NAS, then the Netserver is right and the ARC is
wrong.
Personally, it makes more sense to me to use the first definition, as
the second definition doesn't seem to add anything to it since if these
two channels just hit different chassis, then there's no way for the
netserver to deny that. Personally, I like my hunt group to look like
one big dial-in system as far as customers are concerned, and this would
break that appearance.
The flip-side of that, is the actual name of the attribute "Port-Limit"
would seem to imply the Netservers behavior, since it makes no mention
of channel limit, or bundle limit or anything like that which would seem
to apply to MP more.
Anyway...now that I've probably confused everyone about what I think, I
think I'll just leave it at that. :)
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Subject:(usr-tc) Look what fell from the sky today From: Pete Ashdown <pashdown@xmission.com> Date: 1998-07-16 11:30:28
Man, I thought I'd see the millenium before I saw V.90 code for HiPers, but
apparently 3.1.2 is on the TotalService site NOW!
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Multilink PPP and ShotGun From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com> Date: 1998-07-16 12:11:15
Thus spake Marcelo Souza
> Does any one here has users trying to use this feature that came
>with Diamond Supra Sonic II modems?
> It intend to use two common telephone lines (not ISDN) to make
>connections up to 112k (2x 56k) using multilink PPP.
> How can set up my TCs (I have both ARC and Netserver) to enable
>that ?
Same way you would with ISDN...MLPPP is MLPPP, it doesn't care if the
connection is an ISDN line, or a 56k modem, just set their Port-Limit to
2 and away they go. They may not even need the ShotGun program to do it
as win98 and win nt will both do MLPPP natively.
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For a moment there I thought I was going to read about a user so fed up
with Multilink PPP and their usr-tc chasis that they had to resort to
using a shotgun :)
If you're using radius, set Port-Limit to 2 and you should be all set.
- lv
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Marcelo Souza wrote:
>
>
> Does any one here has users trying to use this feature that came
> with Diamond Supra Sonic II modems?
> It intend to use two common telephone lines (not ISDN) to make
> connections up to 112k (2x 56k) using multilink PPP.
> How can set up my TCs (I have both ARC and Netserver) to enable
> that ?
>
>
> TIA
>
>
> - Marcelo
>
>
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Does any one here has users trying to use this feature that came
with Diamond Supra Sonic II modems?
It intend to use two common telephone lines (not ISDN) to make
connections up to 112k (2x 56k) using multilink PPP.
How can set up my TCs (I have both ARC and Netserver) to enable
that ?
TIA
- Marcelo
Subject:(usr-tc) NETSERVER 16I PLUS From: john_cusmano@westcon.com Date: 1998-07-16 13:07:31
My customer is trying to connect to my netserver 16i plus using a 3com office
connect isdn lan modem (3c892). Does anyone have any suggestions what I can do
on my side or on his side?
Thanks
Subject:(usr-tc) Need help with T-1/Netserver/Quad modems From: John Powell <john@jetcity.com> Date: 1998-07-16 13:13:35
We have channelized T-1s (ESF b8zs) coming into our usr-tcs. We're trying
to bring a new chassis online, but we have a problem. When we plug in one
of the T-1 spans, the first call comes in fine, modem answers and user gets
authenticated. But after the first one, the box stops answering. No other
modem picks up. I'm 99% sure that the new box is configured the same as our
others. Anyone have any idea what I missed?
Thanks!
John
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Jet City Online http://www.jetcity.com
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Need help with T-1/Netserver/Quad modems From: John Powell <john@jetcity.com> Date: 1998-07-16 13:39:44
At 03:30 PM 7/16/98 -0500, you wrote:
>> We have channelized T-1s (ESF b8zs) coming into our usr-tcs. We're trying
>> to bring a new chassis online, but we have a problem. When we plug in one
>> of the T-1 spans, the first call comes in fine, modem answers and user gets
>> authenticated. But after the first one, the box stops answering. No other
>> modem picks up. I'm 99% sure that the new box is configured the same as our
>> others. Anyone have any idea what I missed?
>
>I've seen this before when you first turn on a chassis - for some reason,
>the telco doesn't release all the trunks. While it is turned on, try
>unplugging the T1, leaving it out for 15-30 seconds, and plug it back in.
>Sometimes that shocks the switch into re-evaluating what is going on, and
>releases the trunks. Alternatively, call the telco and have them take a
>look at the trunks to make sure they are all released, and not in a
>maintenance mode.
I was using a 'live' T-1 from our regular hunt group, moving it from one of
the old chassis to the new one. When I move it back again to the old
chassis, it works fine. So I don't think its a telco issue. I'll try
plugging a T-1 into the new chassis, reseat the T-1, and let you know.
John
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Look what fell from the sky today From: GTI x2 Tech <x2@apollo.gti.net> Date: 1998-07-16 13:44:31
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Pete Ashdown wrote:
> Man, I thought I'd see the millenium before I saw V.90 code for HiPers, but
> apparently 3.1.2 is on the TotalService site NOW!
>
Dont get to excited. As Im trying to verify this with someone at USR the
V90 code it works ONLY with the HiPer ARC:
Hiper DSP - T1 & T1/PRI (Includes v.90. For use with HiPer ARC only) - TCS 3.1.2
Which is BS if you ask me. Does anyone know IF and WHEN they will have a
version out?
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Need help with T-1/Netserver/Quad modems From: John Powell <john@jetcity.com> Date: 1998-07-16 13:50:12
At 03:30 PM 7/16/98 -0500, you wrote:
>> We have channelized T-1s (ESF b8zs) coming into our usr-tcs. We're trying
>> to bring a new chassis online, but we have a problem. When we plug in one
>> of the T-1 spans, the first call comes in fine, modem answers and user gets
>> authenticated. But after the first one, the box stops answering. No other
>> modem picks up. I'm 99% sure that the new box is configured the same as our
>> others. Anyone have any idea what I missed?
>
>I've seen this before when you first turn on a chassis - for some reason,
>the telco doesn't release all the trunks. While it is turned on, try
>unplugging the T1, leaving it out for 15-30 seconds, and plug it back in.
>Sometimes that shocks the switch into re-evaluating what is going on, and
>releases the trunks. Alternatively, call the telco and have them take a
>look at the trunks to make sure they are all released, and not in a
>maintenance mode.
I was using a 'live' T-1 from our regular hunt group, moving it from one of
the old chassis to the new one. When I move it back again to the old
chassis, it works fine. So I don't think its a telco issue. I'll try
plugging a T-1 into the new chassis, reseat the T-1, and let you know.
LATER:
Nope, same behavior. But I will make one amends to my original statement of
the problem. Modems on the first card answer, but not the other modems.
John
John
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Subject:Re[2]: (usr-tc) Look what fell from the sky today From: john_cusmano@westcon.com Date: 1998-07-16 14:07:30
THIS IS TRUE, THE V.90 CODE FOR THE DSPs ONLY WORK WITH THE HIPER ARC.
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On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Pete Ashdown wrote:
> Man, I thought I'd see the millenium before I saw V.90 code for HiPers, but
> apparently 3.1.2 is on the TotalService site NOW!
>
Dont get to excited. As Im trying to verify this with someone at USR the
V90 code it works ONLY with the HiPer ARC:
Hiper DSP - T1 & T1/PRI (Includes v.90. For use with HiPer ARC only) - TCS 3.1.2
Which is BS if you ask me. Does anyone know IF and WHEN they will have a
version out?
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Subject:RE: (usr-tc) Netserver16 modem firmware version From: Mike Wronski <mike@coredump.ae.usr.com> Date: 1998-07-16 14:08:06
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
>[mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Greg Coffey
>Sent: Thursday, July 16, 1998 10:37 AM
>To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
>Subject: (usr-tc) Netserver16
>
>
>How can I tell what firmware ver the modems in my netserver 16 are
>currently running? If I telnet in to one of them, is there a command to
>check this?
>
>Thanks,
>Greg Coffey CoffeyNet 307-234-5443
>142 S. Center St. www.coffey.com
>Casper, WY 82601
>
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"set switched interface mod:1 at_command ati7"
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Need help with T-1/Netserver/Quad modems From: John Powell <john@jetcity.com> Date: 1998-07-16 14:12:09
At 03:58 PM 7/16/98 -0500, you wrote:
>> Nope, same behavior. But I will make one amends to my original statement of
>> the problem. Modems on the first card answer, but not the other modems.
>
>Have you taken a look at the DS0 --> modem assignment? You can do it at
>the console of the T1 card, or via TCM.
Checked that, looks alright to me:
S1:DS1-1.1 S2:MDM-1
S1:DS1-1.2 S2:MDM-2
S1:DS1-1.3 S2:MDM-3
S1:DS1-1.4 S2:MDM-4
S1:DS1-1.5 S3:MDM-1
S1:DS1-1.6 S3:MDM-2
S1:DS1-1.7 S3:MDM-3
S1:DS1-1.8 S3:MDM-4
S1:DS1-1.9 S4:MDM-1
S1:DS1-1.10 S4:MDM-2
S1:DS1-1.11 S4:MDM-3
S1:DS1-1.12 S4:MDM-4
S1:DS1-1.13 S5:MDM-1
S1:DS1-1.14 S5:MDM-2
S1:DS1-1.15 S5:MDM-3
S1:DS1-1.16 S5:MDM-4
S1:DS1-1.17 S6:MDM-1
S1:DS1-1.18 S6:MDM-2
S1:DS1-1.19 S6:MDM-3
S1:DS1-1.20 S6:MDM-4
S1:DS1-1.21 S7:MDM-1
S1:DS1-1.22 S7:MDM-2
S1:DS1-1.23 S7:MDM-3
S1:DS1-1.24 S7:MDM-4
S1:DS1-2.1 S8:MDM-1
S1:DS1-2.2 S8:MDM-2
S1:DS1-2.3 S8:MDM-3
S1:DS1-2.4 S8:MDM-4
S1:DS1-2.5 S9:MDM-1
S1:DS1-2.6 S9:MDM-2
S1:DS1-2.7 S9:MDM-3
S1:DS1-2.8 S9:MDM-4
S1:DS1-2.9 S10:MDM-1
S1:DS1-2.10 S10:MDM-2
S1:DS1-2.11 S10:MDM-3
S1:DS1-2.12 S10:MDM-4
S1:DS1-2.13 S11:MDM-1
S1:DS1-2.14 S11:MDM-2
S1:DS1-2.15 S11:MDM-3
S1:DS1-2.16 S11:MDM-4
S1:DS1-2.17 S12:MDM-1
S1:DS1-2.18 S12:MDM-2
S1:DS1-2.19 S12:MDM-3
S1:DS1-2.20 S12:MDM-4
S1:DS1-2.21 S13:MDM-1
S1:DS1-2.22 S13:MDM-2
S1:DS1-2.23 S13:MDM-3
S1:DS1-2.24 S13:MDM-4
John
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Need help with T-1/Netserver/Quad modems From: John Powell <john@jetcity.com> Date: 1998-07-16 14:24:08
At 04:59 PM 7/16/98 -0400, you wrote:
>John Powell <john@jetcity.com> writes:
>
>> Nope, same behavior. But I will make one amends to my original statement of
>> the problem. Modems on the first card answer, but not the other modems.
>
>What's the status of the modems as viewed from the CT1 card? If they
>show up as unavailable, you may want to verify that all the modems
>have their line source set to the "t1Tdm" bus rather than the "priTdm"
>setting.
They are all set the "t1Tdm".
John
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Need help with T-1/Netserver/Quad modems From: John Powell <john@jetcity.com> Date: 1998-07-16 14:37:04
Using TCM how do you look to see if the modems are "available" according to
the T-1 card?
John
At 05:37 PM 7/16/98 -0400, you wrote:
>John Powell <john@jetcity.com> writes:
>
>> They are all set the "t1Tdm".
>
>And are they available from the CT1 card perspective? If the line
>source had to be changed, it will take a reset to actually make the
>setting change.
>
>If the CT1 card indicates that the modems are in an "available" state,
>then I guess the next question is if the calls are even hitting your
>equipment. If you have something that can receive SNMP traps, I would
>suggest enabling the CT1 traps for DS0 level call arrival and error
>events, which if a call is actually arriving, should then give you a
>failure to terminate the call successfully on a modem with a reason
>code that you can look up in the MIB.
>
>-- David
>
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Need help with T-1/Netserver/Quad modems From: John Powell <john@jetcity.com> Date: 1998-07-16 15:19:04
At 05:51 PM 7/16/98 -0400, you wrote:
>John Powell <john@jetcity.com> writes:
>
>> Using TCM how do you look to see if the modems are "available" according to
>> the T-1 card?
>
>Hmm - someone else may have to answer definitively since I don't use
>TCM.
>
>But if you have access to the console, you can use status (main menu
>option 1) options 3 and 5 to see DS0/Modem status.
From the T-1 console it looks fine:
T1 Span Line 1 DS0/Modem Status
DS0 DS0 Modem Slot/ DS0 DS0 Modem SLOT/
Status Status Chan Status Status chan
1 CONNECT-IN CONNECT-IN 2\1 13 IDLE IDLE 5\1
2 IDLE IDLE 2\2 14 IDLE IDLE 5\2
3 IDLE IDLE 2\3 15 IDLE IDLE 5\3
4 IDLE IDLE 2\4 16 IDLE IDLE 5\4
5 IDLE IDLE 3\1 17 IDLE IDLE 6\1
6 IDLE IDLE 3\2 18 IDLE IDLE 6\2
7 IDLE IDLE 3\3 19 IDLE IDLE 6\3
8 IDLE IDLE 3\4 20 IDLE IDLE 6\4
9 IDLE IDLE 4\1 21 IDLE IDLE 7\1
10 IDLE IDLE 4\2 22 IDLE IDLE 7\2
11 IDLE IDLE 4\3 23 IDLE IDLE 7\3
12 IDLE IDLE 4\4 24 IDLE IDLE 7\4
>
>If you've got a MIB browser or SNMP utility, you can dump the
>ds0StatModem object table.
>
>This information is in the same table as that which holds the current
>DS0 status (e.g., busied out, in alarm, etc..) so based on my ancient
>recollection of TCM, I'd presume that if you selected the DS0s for a
>query, you should find the modem status object available for selection
>at the same stage where you'd normally find the DS0 status object.
>
>-- David
I'm stumped. I'm not SNMP savvy. I rely on command line and TCM. If no one
else has any ideas, I guess I'm calling USR tech support tomorrow morning...
John
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Need help with T-1/Netserver/Quad modems From: Curt Shambeau <curt@execpc.com> Date: 1998-07-16 15:30:27
> We have channelized T-1s (ESF b8zs) coming into our usr-tcs. We're trying
> to bring a new chassis online, but we have a problem. When we plug in one
> of the T-1 spans, the first call comes in fine, modem answers and user gets
> authenticated. But after the first one, the box stops answering. No other
> modem picks up. I'm 99% sure that the new box is configured the same as our
> others. Anyone have any idea what I missed?
I've seen this before when you first turn on a chassis - for some reason,
the telco doesn't release all the trunks. While it is turned on, try
unplugging the T1, leaving it out for 15-30 seconds, and plug it back in.
Sometimes that shocks the switch into re-evaluating what is going on, and
releases the trunks. Alternatively, call the telco and have them take a
look at the trunks to make sure they are all released, and not in a
maintenance mode.
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Multilink PPP and ShotGun From: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com> Date: 1998-07-16 15:31:09
I'm getting confused now... Which multi-line thingy requires a "server"
to sync everything up? What info does it provide/coordinate?
Thanks,
Charles
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Jeff Mcadams wrote:
> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 12:11:15 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com>
> Reply-To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> Subject: Re: (usr-tc) Multilink PPP and ShotGun
>
> Thus spake Marcelo Souza
> > Does any one here has users trying to use this feature that came
> >with Diamond Supra Sonic II modems?
> > It intend to use two common telephone lines (not ISDN) to make
> >connections up to 112k (2x 56k) using multilink PPP.
> > How can set up my TCs (I have both ARC and Netserver) to enable
> >that ?
>
> Same way you would with ISDN...MLPPP is MLPPP, it doesn't care if the
> connection is an ISDN line, or a 56k modem, just set their Port-Limit to
> 2 and away they go. They may not even need the ShotGun program to do it
> as win98 and win nt will both do MLPPP natively.
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Multilink PPP and ShotGun From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com> Date: 1998-07-16 15:34:39
Thus spake Charles Sprickman
>I'm getting confused now... Which multi-line thingy requires a "server"
>to sync everything up? What info does it provide/coordinate?
Well, if you're dialing in with MP(MLPPP, Multilink, etc.) to a hunt
group of equipment, that equipment needs to be able to coordinate
between them to "bond" those connections across chassis. USR/3Com's
protocol for doing this is called MPIP. If you're only dialing into a
single chassis, then you have no need for MPIP.
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Need help with T-1/Netserver/Quad modems From: Curt Shambeau <curt@execpc.com> Date: 1998-07-16 15:58:51
> Nope, same behavior. But I will make one amends to my original statement of
> the problem. Modems on the first card answer, but not the other modems.
Have you taken a look at the DS0 --> modem assignment? You can do it at
the console of the T1 card, or via TCM.
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Multilink PPP and ShotGun From: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com> Date: 1998-07-16 16:20:39
> Well, if you're dialing in with MP(MLPPP, Multilink, etc.) to a hunt
> group of equipment, that equipment needs to be able to coordinate
> between them to "bond" those connections across chassis. USR/3Com's
> protocol for doing this is called MPIP. If you're only dialing into a
> single chassis, then you have no need for MPIP.
Thanks... Are MP,MLPPP,Multilink, and friends all the same thing? Is
there an easy way to run the MPIP server off something besides one of your
Netservers? And lastly, how do other vendors handle this issue?
Thanks again,
Charles
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Multilink PPP and ShotGun From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com> Date: 1998-07-16 16:36:56
Thus spake Charles Sprickman
>Thanks... Are MP,MLPPP,Multilink, and friends all the same thing?
Yup, all the same thing...if you feel like some really dry reading, you
can check out RFC 1990 for the spec.
>Is
>there an easy way to run the MPIP server off something besides one of your
>Netservers?
3Com has made available to a few people code that's written to compile
on Solaris, but its really pitiful and its a real resource hog. Ricky
Beam was working on cleaning it up...I haven't gotten any word from him
in a while concerning it though... <hint>
>And lastly, how do other vendors handle this issue?
Other vendors have their own protocols, analogous to MPIP (Cisco calls
theirs MMP I believe), so (of course) nothing interoperates in this
respect.
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Need help with T-1/Netserver/Quad modems From: David Bolen <db3l@ans.net> Date: 1998-07-16 16:59:43
John Powell <john@jetcity.com> writes:
> Nope, same behavior. But I will make one amends to my original statement of
> the problem. Modems on the first card answer, but not the other modems.
What's the status of the modems as viewed from the CT1 card? If they
show up as unavailable, you may want to verify that all the modems
have their line source set to the "t1Tdm" bus rather than the "priTdm"
setting.
-- David
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Need help with T-1/Netserver/Quad modems From: David Bolen <db3l@ans.net> Date: 1998-07-16 17:37:14
John Powell <john@jetcity.com> writes:
> They are all set the "t1Tdm".
And are they available from the CT1 card perspective? If the line
source had to be changed, it will take a reset to actually make the
setting change.
If the CT1 card indicates that the modems are in an "available" state,
then I guess the next question is if the calls are even hitting your
equipment. If you have something that can receive SNMP traps, I would
suggest enabling the CT1 traps for DS0 level call arrival and error
events, which if a call is actually arriving, should then give you a
failure to terminate the call successfully on a modem with a reason
code that you can look up in the MIB.
-- David
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Need help with T-1/Netserver/Quad modems From: David Bolen <db3l@ans.net> Date: 1998-07-16 17:51:07
John Powell <john@jetcity.com> writes:
> Using TCM how do you look to see if the modems are "available" according to
> the T-1 card?
Hmm - someone else may have to answer definitively since I don't use
TCM.
But if you have access to the console, you can use status (main menu
option 1) options 3 and 5 to see DS0/Modem status.
If you've got a MIB browser or SNMP utility, you can dump the
ds0StatModem object table.
This information is in the same table as that which holds the current
DS0 status (e.g., busied out, in alarm, etc..) so based on my ancient
recollection of TCM, I'd presume that if you selected the DS0s for a
query, you should find the modem status object available for selection
at the same stage where you'd normally find the DS0 status object.
-- David
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Hello,
Anyone know if you can do NFAS (2 PRI / 1 D) with two HiPerDSPs? If not,
will this be supported in the future?
-Jason
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Thus spake Robert Adams
> Anyone know if you can do NFAS (2 PRI / 1 D) with two HiPerDSPs? If not,
>will this be supported in the future?
My understanding is that you cannot do this. Since the cards are
independant entities within the chassis, it will be difficult to get
them to cooperate to do NFAS. There's been no statement that I've seen
from 3Com about possible support for this in the future, but I would
hazard a guess that it would be unlikely, or at the very least, in the
distant future.
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Jeff,
Seems like it would be possible, the PM3's are doing NFAS across
different chassis.. lol
-Jason
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-----Original Message-----
Thus spake Robert Adams
> Anyone know if you can do NFAS (2 PRI / 1 D) with two HiPerDSPs? If
not,
>will this be supported in the future?
My understanding is that you cannot do this. Since the cards are
independant entities within the chassis, it will be difficult to get
them to cooperate to do NFAS. There's been no statement that I've seen
from 3Com about possible support for this in the future, but I would
hazard a guess that it would be unlikely, or at the very least, in the
distant future.
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Subject:RE: (usr-tc) New V.90 for HiPer From: Eric Billeter <ebilleter@cableone.net> Date: 1998-07-16 19:41:36
It is working fine other than it doesnt send
a ppp start message when you do a
set ppp session_start_message "PPP session begin from ...."
Other than that I haven't had a problem yet. We'll see
when it hits the production units tho.
Eric T. Billeter Cable One
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-----Original Message-----
[mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Jason W
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 1998 6:13 PM
I have noticed this is out for HiPer DSP's and HiPer
arc. I know that it currently does not work with the
netserver :-( but has anyone tried this out, and how
is it working?
Thanks,
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Subject:(usr-tc) New V.90 for HiPer From: Jason W <jwatkins@iland.net> Date: 1998-07-16 20:13:10
I have noticed this is out for HiPer DSP's and HiPer
arc. I know that it currently does not work with the
netserver :-( but has anyone tried this out, and how
is it working?
Thanks,
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) New V.90 for HiPer From: Tatai SV Krishnan <tkrishna@bubba.ae.usr.com> Date: 1998-07-16 20:26:33
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Jason W wrote:
> I have noticed this is out for HiPer DSP's and HiPer
> arc. I know that it currently does not work with the
> netserver :-( but has anyone tried this out, and how
> is it working?
It is not that the DSP does not work with the netserver. Our STG has not
tested and certified this code with the netserver. However the beta code
3.8.x should work with the DSP code.
krish
>
> Thanks,
>
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) New V.90 for HiPer From: Tatai SV Krishnan <tkrishna@bubba.ae.usr.com> Date: 1998-07-16 21:07:25
Yes it is in beta.
krish
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On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Jamie Orzechowski wrote:
> is there beta 3.8.X NETServer code???
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tatai SV Krishnan <tkrishna@bubba.ae.usr.com>
> To: Jason W <jwatkins@iland.net>
> Cc: USRTC <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com>
> Date: Friday, July 17, 1998 9:33 AM
> Subject: Re: (usr-tc) New V.90 for HiPer
>
>
> >
> >On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Jason W wrote:
> >
> >> I have noticed this is out for HiPer DSP's and HiPer
> >> arc. I know that it currently does not work with the
> >> netserver :-( but has anyone tried this out, and how
> >> is it working?
> >
> >It is not that the DSP does not work with the netserver. Our STG has not
> >tested and certified this code with the netserver. However the beta code
> >3.8.x should work with the DSP code.
> >
> >
> >krish
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
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> >> Jason Watkins I-Land Support & NOC Tech
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Set MP on - NETServer
set net user default max_cha 2 - Hiper arc
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On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Jason W wrote:
> Ahhhh.... I see. Is there any documantation on how to config
> this? I have hunted through my USRTC doc's and have come
> up empty. I would need information on both Netservers and
> HiPer Arc's. Thanks for the info.
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com>
> To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com>
> Date: Friday, July 17, 1998 8:31 AM
> Subject: Re: (usr-tc) Multilink PPP and ShotGun
>
>
> >Thus spake Jason W
> >>Is it true that MPPP is unavailable to the Quad
> >>modem cards?
> >
> >The Quad modem cards don't have anything to do with it. They just take
> >a data stream in from the line source (pri,t1,nic) and demodulate it and
> >pass it on to the netserver. The netserver (or HARC) runs MP.
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) New V.90 for HiPer From: Jim Heng <jheng@pcpartner.net> Date: 1998-07-16 21:45:46
Loaded it tonight and seems to be working. Haven't tried any actual v.90,
but x2 looks ok
-----Original Message-----
>I have noticed this is out for HiPer DSP's and HiPer
>arc. I know that it currently does not work with the
>netserver :-( but has anyone tried this out, and how
>is it working?
>
>Thanks,
>
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-> Hi Jeff. Yes, they are configured to hunt. I opened a ticket report with
-> the Telco last night. At first they too were unable to get it to hunt from
-> the first PRI to the second PRI, it was ringing busy instead of switching
-> over. Then they busied out each channel in the second Hiper DSP's PRI and
-> put them back in service. Right after taking them off the busy state the
-> hunting started to work. Wierd.
->
-> Just out of curiosity; how do you issue that "In Service" command you
-> mentioned below?
They did the equivalent of the same thing. To do this yourself, go to
TCM. Then highlight the 4 LEDs above the channels (LED bar graph) and go
to Configuration on the menu bar and then action/commands . Select software
and then look for the In Service option and execute it. As a general
coruse of business I always do this after a T-1 outage since we are
connected to a DMS-100. Fortunately we don't have very many T-1 outages.
Jeff Binkley
ASA Network Computing
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Jeff Mcadams wrote:
> Thus spake Robert Adams
> > Anyone know if you can do NFAS (2 PRI / 1 D) with two HiPerDSPs? If not,
> >will this be supported in the future?
>
> My understanding is that you cannot do this. Since the cards are
> independant entities within the chassis, it will be difficult to get
> them to cooperate to do NFAS. There's been no statement that I've seen
> from 3Com about possible support for this in the future, but I would
> hazard a guess that it would be unlikely, or at the very least, in the
> distant future.
> --
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So what about the Dual T1/PRI? I've been discussing upgrading our
CT1s to PRIs with our telco and need to understand the restrictions
that exist regarding multi-card and or multi-span NFAS support across
multiple TC Hub chassis.
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It BETTER!! I just ordered 2 additional PRIs without D channels.
Check out the specs for the Hiper DSP
http://www.3com.com/solutions/svprovider/products/hiperdsp/specs.html
It says "Supports NonFacility Associated Signaling(NFAS)"
There is also another document somewhere on the 3com web site that
is for Provisioning of PRI/T1 lines for TC (ironically, I can't find
it). But it says the same thing.
I was going to ask the list here shortly how to configure my DSPs
for NFAS.
Someone please clarify. I got a super deal on these PRIs ($350/ea) and
it's not to late to cancel my order on another TC rack I just ordered.
Scott
> My understanding is that you cannot do this. Since the cards are
> independant entities within the chassis, it will be difficult to get
> them to cooperate to do NFAS. There's been no statement that I've seen
> from 3Com about possible support for this in the future, but I would
> hazard a guess that it would be unlikely, or at the very least, in the
> distant future.
> --
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Need help with T-1/Netserver/Quad modems From: Curt Shambeau <curt@execpc.com> Date: 1998-07-16 23:07:13
> I'm stumped. I'm not SNMP savvy. I rely on command line and TCM. If no one
> else has any ideas, I guess I'm calling USR tech support tomorrow morning...
Do you have a spare T1 card you could swap in?? Alternatively, physically
pull out and reinstall both the front and back of the T1 card. As I
remember, I had to do this once. I actually found out by swapping it out,
but when I put the old one back in, it worked as well.
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On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Marcelo Souza wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Laszlo Vecsey wrote:
>
> |For a moment there I thought I was going to read about a user so fed up
> |with Multilink PPP and their usr-tc chasis that they had to resort to
> |using a shotgun :)
>
> 8-))
>
> |If you're using radius, set Port-Limit to 2 and you should be all set.
>
> I set the Port-Limit on Radius to 2 but it seems that the TC is
> overriding the radius settings. Because, if I set Port-Limit on Radius
> users file to 1 for a expecific user (eg. test) and set MAX_CHANELS to 2
> in the ARC for a DEFAULT user, my "test" user will be able to make the
> connection in 2 channels.
> But if I set the MAX_CHANNEL to 1 for a default user, the "test"
> user will be able to make only ONE connection, even if I set its expecific
> configuration on Radius Port-Limit to 2.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
Port limit and max_channel are different attributes. By setting
max_channel to 1 you are limiting the channels for the users to 1. Port
limit just tells the nas that the user has a limit of 2, and currently
the user also has the setting to have a max channel of 1. If you set the
max channel to any greater number then port limit will make sure that the
user has only the set port limit.
The other way is to set the max_channels to the users
Max-Channels 0x9802 integer
vendor specific attribute.
krish
>
> - Marcelo
>
>
> |On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Marcelo Souza wrote:
> |
> |>
> |>
> |> Does any one here has users trying to use this feature that came
> |> with Diamond Supra Sonic II modems?
> |> It intend to use two common telephone lines (not ISDN) to make
> |> connections up to 112k (2x 56k) using multilink PPP.
> |> How can set up my TCs (I have both ARC and Netserver) to enable
> |> that ?
> |>
> |>
> |> TIA
> |>
> |>
> |> - Marcelo
> |>
> |>
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) New V.90 for HiPer From: Laszlo Vecsey <master@internexus.net> Date: 1998-07-17 00:11:44
I thought the netservers (or rather the quad code) had v.90 support for
some time now, along with the courier flash updates that were released.
Were those not considered 'official' or 'final' at the time, and now this
Hyper version is?
- lv
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Jason W wrote:
> I have noticed this is out for HiPer DSP's and HiPer
> arc. I know that it currently does not work with the
> netserver :-( but has anyone tried this out, and how
> is it working?
>
> Thanks,
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Yep, all of us Netservers users are getting the shaft.. the official
USR plan is going to be they will refund you $3200 for your old
netserver card.. so if you buy a hiperarc for say $6k, you get the
privelege of paying $2700 to fix your quake lag problems. And bring
your own vaseline!
Reply-to: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
So far, the HiperARC would be useless to us since we have trouble getting certain
ISDN modems (Adtran & 3Com) to connect to the Quad modems. Unless I am
mistaken, the HiPerARCS do not have ISDN on-board.
Lee
Laszlo Vecsey wrote:
> Sounds like the incredible deal will have to be a free trade in, because
> even then it wont be useful to all of us.
>
> - lv
>
> On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Jamie Orzechowski wrote:
>
> > well ... I am not kidding .. I was asking about quake lag and he started
> > talking about how the ppp stack code was 6 years old and would have to be
> > completely redone ... he said NETServers will becom unsupported hardwas this
> > christmas and they will FORCE users to upgrade to HiPERARC's by this
> > "INCREDIBLE DEAL" and he mention INCREDIBLE many times =) ... but would give
> > any prices ... he said they just want everyone to upgrade to HiPER ARC's
> > ASAP ... guess that's the reason for the deal ... I don;t remeber his name
> > but he was a level 2 support and a team leader also ...
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com>
> > To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com>
> > Date: Saturday, July 11, 1998 10:12 PM
> > Subject: (usr-tc) Netservers becoming unsupported?!
> >
> >
> > >Thus spake Jamie Orzechowski
> > >>BTW: I was talking with a USR Level 2 support guy and he sais NETServers
> > >>will become unsupported this christmas ... but they will have an AMAZING
> > >>deal on HiPER ARC's because they are going to force the end users to
> > upgrade
> > >>... so I guess that's a good thing ... =)
> > >
> > >Say WHAT?! You *are* kidding us, right? I hope? If USR/3Com pulls
> > >support for the Netservers by Christmas, I for one will start screaming
> > >bloody murder and cozy up really nice with my local Cisco rep. That is
> > >unless they make some *phenomenal* improvements to the HiPer equipment
> > >from what I've seen. At this point, the HiPer stuff just isn't up to
> > >snuff for what we use it for, our setup *requires* some of the protocol
> > >support that the netservers have that the HiPer doesn't at this point
> > >(yeah, yeah, its in beta, I know) and I have serious doubts that the
> > >support for these protocols (MPIP in specific) will be ready for prime
> > >time and still leave us enough time to get all of our equipment switched
> > >over...This isn't even considering the cost of upgrading (even with an
> > >AMAZING deal, it will still cost us money, how much you want to bet?)
> > >
> > >Someone please tell me that this is a miscommunication somewhere along
> > >the way.
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Multilink PPP and ShotGun From: Jason W <jwatkins@iland.net> Date: 1998-07-17 08:27:16
Is it true that MPPP is unavailable to the Quad
modem cards?
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-----Original Message-----
>Thus spake Charles Sprickman
>>Thanks... Are MP,MLPPP,Multilink, and friends all the same thing?
>
>Yup, all the same thing...if you feel like some really dry reading, you
>can check out RFC 1990 for the spec.
>
>>Is
>>there an easy way to run the MPIP server off something besides one of your
>>Netservers?
>
>3Com has made available to a few people code that's written to compile
>on Solaris, but its really pitiful and its a real resource hog. Ricky
>Beam was working on cleaning it up...I haven't gotten any word from him
>in a while concerning it though... <hint>
>
>>And lastly, how do other vendors handle this issue?
>
>Other vendors have their own protocols, analogous to MPIP (Cisco calls
>theirs MMP I believe), so (of course) nothing interoperates in this
>respect.
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Subject:(usr-tc) Cisco AS5100 From: Randy Cosby <dcosby@infowest.com> Date: 1998-07-17 08:46:43
I just ran across a "for sale" ad for one of these. It looks a lot like
a Total Control unit. Is it the same?
Randy
Thus spake Jeff Lynch
>So what about the Dual T1/PRI? I've been discussing upgrading our
>CT1s to PRIs with our telco and need to understand the restrictions
>that exist regarding multi-card and or multi-span NFAS support across
>multiple TC Hub chassis.
The dual t1/pri card will do NFAS between the two spans connected to the
card. It will not do NFAS with another PRI card in the same chassis, or
one in another chassis.
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Multilink PPP and ShotGun From: Jason W <jwatkins@iland.net> Date: 1998-07-17 09:11:50
Ahhhh.... I see. Is there any documantation on how to config
this? I have hunted through my USRTC doc's and have come
up empty. I would need information on both Netservers and
HiPer Arc's. Thanks for the info.
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-----Original Message-----
>Thus spake Jason W
>>Is it true that MPPP is unavailable to the Quad
>>modem cards?
>
>The Quad modem cards don't have anything to do with it. They just take
>a data stream in from the line source (pri,t1,nic) and demodulate it and
>pass it on to the netserver. The netserver (or HARC) runs MP.
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Subject:(usr-tc) Pinout for HiPer DSP console port and TC use with a Power Sentry? From: Eric <elorenzo@mediacity.com> Date: 1998-07-17 09:22:53
Does anyone have the pinout for the HiPer DSP's console port?
Also, does anyone use a Power Sentry in conjunction with their TC rack? I
have a slight problem when accessing the Hiper DSP's console port via one
of the Power Sentry's passthrus.
Eric
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Multilink PPP and ShotGun From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com> Date: 1998-07-17 09:40:31
Thus spake Jason W
>Is it true that MPPP is unavailable to the Quad
>modem cards?
The Quad modem cards don't have anything to do with it. They just take
a data stream in from the line source (pri,t1,nic) and demodulate it and
pass it on to the netserver. The netserver (or HARC) runs MP.
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) New V.90 for HiPer From: Jamie Orzechowski <mhz@recorder.ca> Date: 1998-07-17 09:41:15
is there beta 3.8.X NETServer code???
-----Original Message-----
Cc: USRTC <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com>
>
>On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Jason W wrote:
>
>> I have noticed this is out for HiPer DSP's and HiPer
>> arc. I know that it currently does not work with the
>> netserver :-( but has anyone tried this out, and how
>> is it working?
>
>It is not that the DSP does not work with the netserver. Our STG has not
>tested and certified this code with the netserver. However the beta code
>3.8.x should work with the DSP code.
>
>
>krish
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
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On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Jeff Mcadams wrote:
> Thus spake Jeff Lynch
> >So what about the Dual T1/PRI? I've been discussing upgrading our
> >CT1s to PRIs with our telco and need to understand the restrictions
> >that exist regarding multi-card and or multi-span NFAS support across
> >multiple TC Hub chassis.
>
> The dual t1/pri card will do NFAS between the two spans connected to the
> card. It will not do NFAS with another PRI card in the same chassis, or
> one in another chassis.
> --
> Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com
Ameritech only includes one D-channel per PRI trunk group. They
want like $150/mo per additional D channel. The Dual T1/PRI card
isn't too bad since I wouldn't want to run more than say 3 or 4
spans from a single D, but the inability of the DSP to support
NFAS on at least the same chassis is somewhat rediculous. If
D channels were free, it wouldn't matter as much. I wouldn't mind
burning a B channel on each span for a D channel to get the independence
on each span but at significant telco cost increases, it looks like
the PM3s with multichassis NFAS support win again in this round.
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> Ameritech only includes one D-channel per PRI trunk group. They
> want like $150/mo per additional D channel. The Dual T1/PRI card
Ameritech in your area maybe. Up here in WI they don't do that.
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Multilink PPP and ShotGun From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com> Date: 1998-07-17 10:23:55
Thus spake Jason W
>Ahhhh.... I see. Is there any documantation on how to config
>this? I have hunted through my USRTC doc's and have come
>up empty. I would need information on both Netservers and
>HiPer Arc's. Thanks for the info.
Not sure on the HARC's since we don't have any yet, but on the
netserver, uhm...I believe they default to having MP enabled, but the
command is "set mp on"
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Bill Tidwell wrote:
>
> Yep, all of us Netservers users are getting the shaft.. the official
> USR plan is going to be they will refund you $3200 for your old
> netserver card.. so if you buy a hiperarc for say $6k, you get the
> privelege of paying $2700 to fix your quake lag problems. And bring
> your own vaseline!
>
Look our Livingston, here I come! They have got to be kidding!
Lee
Thus spake Lee
>Bill Tidwell wrote:
>> Yep, all of us Netservers users are getting the shaft.. the official
>> USR plan is going to be they will refund you $3200 for your old
>> netserver card.. so if you buy a hiperarc for say $6k, you get the
>> privelege of paying $2700 to fix your quake lag problems. And bring
>> your own vaseline!
>Look our Livingston, here I come! They have got to be kidding!
I'm actually looking at the AS5300 from Cisco.
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Thus spake Randy Cosby
>I just ran across a "for sale" ad for one of these. It looks a lot like
>a Total Control unit. Is it the same?
Basically, yes...Cisco licensed the Total Control Chassis system from
USR for the AS5100. The one caveat is that they didn't get the
netserver with it (since the netserver code was itself licensed by USR
from Livingston...oh the tangled web we weave), so Cisco made a version
of the 2511 that was on a card that slid into the USR Total Control
Chassis. The individual card was called the AS51. Quite a nice little
idea, I wish they hadn't quit selling it as I'd very much like to buy a
few for some of our racks in our remote locations. However, keep in
mind that these are some of the older cards here...like, I think they
had the 186 based T1 cards in them, but if the price is right, it might
be nice to get it just for the AS51 (at least IMHO).
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Thus spake Jeff Lynch
>On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Jeff Mcadams wrote:
>> Thus spake Jeff Lynch
>> >So what about the Dual T1/PRI? I've been discussing upgrading our
>> >CT1s to PRIs with our telco and need to understand the restrictions
>> >that exist regarding multi-card and or multi-span NFAS support across
>> >multiple TC Hub chassis.
>> The dual t1/pri card will do NFAS between the two spans connected to the
>> card. It will not do NFAS with another PRI card in the same chassis, or
>> one in another chassis.
>Ameritech only includes one D-channel per PRI trunk group. They
>want like $150/mo per additional D channel. The Dual T1/PRI card
>isn't too bad since I wouldn't want to run more than say 3 or 4
>spans from a single D, but the inability of the DSP to support
>NFAS on at least the same chassis is somewhat rediculous. If
>D channels were free, it wouldn't matter as much. I wouldn't mind
>burning a B channel on each span for a D channel to get the independence
>on each span but at significant telco cost increases, it looks like
>the PM3s with multichassis NFAS support win again in this round.
Hrmm...I don't know...I would think a CLEC would win over Ameritech (if
available, I know not everyone has CLEC's available everywhere) in this
round rather than switching NAS equipment. (I've never been
particularly impressed with Ameritech anyway).
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Multilink PPP and ShotGun From: Mark R. Levinson <mrl@isc.upenn.edu> Date: 1998-07-17 11:20:00
Jeff Mcadams writes:
>Other vendors have their own protocols, analogous to MPIP (Cisco calls
>theirs MMP I believe), so (of course) nothing interoperates in this
>respect.
This lack of interoperability may change as vendors start implementing
L2TP (Layer Two Tunneling Protocol). Solving the multi-chassis MP problem
was not the main motivation behind L2TP, but it does seem like a natural
application for it. This is acknowledged in the introduction to the
Internet draft, which says:
This protocol may solve the "multilink hunt-group splitting" problem.
Multilink PPP [9], often used to aggregate ISDN B channels, requires
that all channels composing a multilink bundle be grouped at a single
NAS. Because L2TP makes a PPP session terminate at a location other
than the point at which the session was physically received, it can
be used to make all channels terminate at a single NAS, allowing
multilink operation even when the physical calls are spread across
distinct physical NAS's.
See <URL:ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pppext-l2tp-11.txt>
for the full text of the current L2TP draft.
-Mark-
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Multilink PPP and ShotGun From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com> Date: 1998-07-17 11:31:13
Thus spake Mark R. Levinson
>Jeff Mcadams writes:
>>Other vendors have their own protocols, analogous to MPIP (Cisco calls
>>theirs MMP I believe), so (of course) nothing interoperates in this
>>respect.
>This lack of interoperability may change as vendors start implementing
>L2TP (Layer Two Tunneling Protocol). Solving the multi-chassis MP problem
>was not the main motivation behind L2TP, but it does seem like a natural
>application for it.
Well...sorta...for example, netservers actually use vtp to tunnel the
connections to the NAS that needs them, MPIP is only the *control*
protocol for this, l2tp would/could replace vtp in this instance, but
you would still need a protocol to control *where* these tunnels are
made, at this point, there is no "standard" protocol that I'm aware of
either in place or on the horizon that would replace the functionality
that MPIP (and other protocols for other vendors) that actually
*coordinate* where those tunnels are made.
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Subject:(usr-tc) FS: USR Total Control 48 port chassis $7,500 From: Brian Wiser <brian@xmission.com> Date: 1998-07-17 11:35:25
Total Control Hub : 16-slot chassis
single 110v ac 70Amp power supply, fan tray,
ethernet network management card
12 Quad v34 Digital Modem NAC (48 ports total, 56k v.90)
Netserver PRI
Dual PRI/T1 - supports analog/ISDN
Asking $7,500 for above bundle.
OR separately:
Quad v34 Digital Modem NAC $500
Analog/Digital Modem NIC/NAC $1,000
Netserver PRI $900
Dual PRI/T1 $900
USR Courier v.90 ext . modem $150
All products are used and in excellent condition.
Buyer is responsible for shipping.
Contact brwiser@xmission.com, or call Brian at 801-539-0852, extension 131.
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>
>Thus spake Lee
>>Bill Tidwell wrote:
>>> Yep, all of us Netservers users are getting the shaft.. the official
>>> USR plan is going to be they will refund you $3200 for your old
>>> netserver card.. so if you buy a hiperarc for say $6k, you get the
>>> privelege of paying $2700 to fix your quake lag problems. And bring
>>> your own vaseline!
>
>>Look our Livingston, here I come! They have got to be kidding!
>
And they want you to pay $3915/year for support on this old chassis
that they don't even support! You would expect them to give you
a Hyper Arc after paying for the annual support. I have noticed
that they now require a support contract for every chassis
(which they now track) or they will not allow username/password
access to the total service web site. If you have a bunch of
chassis it costs a small fortune to support them year after year.
And you can't just get support for one or two of them anymore
expecting to support all of your chassis. Unless you pay for
all chassis then no access.
These bundles look cheap in the first year, but after that you
are screwed. If you work out the supported price per port over
the life of the product you will see that the 3Com product is no
>bargain. Lucington is looking good now....
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Chris Peltier wrote:
> >>Bill Tidwell wrote:
> >>> Yep, all of us Netservers users are getting the shaft.. the official
> >>> USR plan is going to be they will refund you $3200 for your old
> >>> netserver card.. so if you buy a hiperarc for say $6k, you get the
> >>> privelege of paying $2700 to fix your quake lag problems. And bring
> >>> your own vaseline!
> >
> >>Look our Livingston, here I come! They have got to be kidding!
> >
> And they want you to pay $3915/year for support on this old chassis
> that they don't even support! You would expect them to give you
> a Hyper Arc after paying for the annual support. I have noticed
The initial reports that Netserver support was being dropped at the end of
the year appear to be incorrect. What they are doing is stopping the sale
of any new Netservers after the end of the year.
Brian
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Jeff Mcadams wrote:
> >Look our Livingston, here I come! They have got to be kidding!
>
> I'm actually looking at the AS5300 from Cisco.
Don't forget to ask about their "Take out the Trash" trade-in program
after you've received the base pricing... They'll buy up your, erm,
"trash" at a pretty decent price.
Charles
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Pinout for HiPer DSP console port and TC use with a Power Sentry? From: Pete Ashdown <pashdown@xmission.com> Date: 1998-07-17 12:07:42
Eric said once upon a time:
>
>Does anyone have the pinout for the HiPer DSP's console port?
It is in the archives. Go to: http://usr-tc.datasys.net
Subject:RE: (usr-tc) Pinout for HiPer DSP console port and TC use with a Power Sentry? From: Randy Cosby <dcosby@infowest.com> Date: 1998-07-17 12:16:14
Is the archive no longer updated?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> [mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Pete Ashdown
> Sent: Friday, July 17, 1998 12:08 PM
> To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> Subject: Re: (usr-tc) Pinout for HiPer DSP console port and TC use with
> a Power Sentry?
>
>
> Eric said once upon a time:
> >
> >Does anyone have the pinout for the HiPer DSP's console port?
>
> It is in the archives. Go to: http://usr-tc.datasys.net
>
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>The initial reports that Netserver support was being dropped at the end
>of
>the year appear to be incorrect. What they are doing is stopping the
>sale
>of any new Netservers after the end of the year.
>
Failure to fix the UDP packet loss in the NetServer is what I consider
unacceptable and hence no-support.
Are you suggesting that there will be future software release(s) to fix
this and other problems?
I see no value in any support contracts unless they do continue future
software releases for the NetServer. Especially now since this
equipment can be had for < 50 cents on the dollar and dropping fast.
>
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Laszlo Vecsey wrote:
|For a moment there I thought I was going to read about a user so fed up
|with Multilink PPP and their usr-tc chasis that they had to resort to
|using a shotgun :)
8-))
|If you're using radius, set Port-Limit to 2 and you should be all set.
I set the Port-Limit on Radius to 2 but it seems that the TC is
overriding the radius settings. Because, if I set Port-Limit on Radius
users file to 1 for a expecific user (eg. test) and set MAX_CHANELS to 2
in the ARC for a DEFAULT user, my "test" user will be able to make the
connection in 2 channels.
But if I set the MAX_CHANNEL to 1 for a default user, the "test"
user will be able to make only ONE connection, even if I set its expecific
configuration on Radius Port-Limit to 2.
What am I doing wrong?
- Marcelo
|On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Marcelo Souza wrote:
|
|>
|>
|> Does any one here has users trying to use this feature that came
|> with Diamond Supra Sonic II modems?
|> It intend to use two common telephone lines (not ISDN) to make
|> connections up to 112k (2x 56k) using multilink PPP.
|> How can set up my TCs (I have both ARC and Netserver) to enable
|> that ?
|>
|>
|> TIA
|>
|>
|> - Marcelo
|>
|>
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Jeff Mcadams was heard to say:
>I'm actually looking at the AS5300 from Cisco.
I've been looking at one... If you can figure out how to get the thing to
act correctly, then it's not too bad of a box. Of course, it's k56 based
(Telebit MICA Modem technology -- personally, I'd take the MICAblazer.)
AND, it's got next to no LED status feedback on it.
--Ricky
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Pinout for HiPer DSP console port and TC use with a Power Sentry? From: Charles Hill <chill@ionet.net> Date: 1998-07-17 16:40:06
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Eric wrote:
> Does anyone have the pinout for the HiPer DSP's console port?
>
> Also, does anyone use a Power Sentry in conjunction with their TC rack? I
> have a slight problem when accessing the Hiper DSP's console port via one
> of the Power Sentry's passthrus.
Maybe this is what you need:
I found the secret color scheme for connecting the Sentry R-2000 serial
ports to a USR NIC.
Use the standard 568B RJ48C color scheme on one end
(http://www.ionet.net/~chill/eiatia.html) and do this on the RJ-12 end
that plugs into the Sentry:
1 -- Blue
2 -- Green/White
3 -- Green
4 -- Blue/White
5 -- Orange/White
6 -- Blank
Cut off the solid orange wire, strip the Brown pair and twist them
together and crimp (or just cut them off, too).
On the HiPer ARC cards you have to flip dip switch 6 to diable flow
control.
I'm not sure if it's the same on the HiPer DSP cards. ???
Regards,
Charles Hill
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Thus spake Ricky Beam
>Jeff Mcadams was heard to say:
>>I'm actually looking at the AS5300 from Cisco.
>I've been looking at one... If you can figure out how to get the thing to
>act correctly, then it's not too bad of a box. Of course, it's k56 based
>(Telebit MICA Modem technology -- personally, I'd take the MICAblazer.)
>AND, it's got next to no LED status feedback on it.
Yeah, but its Cisco, you don't *need* LED status feedback on it. You
can get feedback from the thing in any other way imaginable, SNMP,
telnet, CDP, you name it! :)
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Charles Sprickman was heard to say:
>> I'm actually looking at the AS5300 from Cisco.
>
>Don't forget to ask about their "Take out the Trash" trade-in program
>after you've received the base pricing... They'll buy up your, erm,
>"trash" at a pretty decent price.
I wouldn't exactly call the USR TC hardware "trash" -- the hardware is
perfectly ok; it's the software that could use a good bit of GNU engineering.
I've been playing with TC hardware of over a year (almost continuously) now,
and I like it. They are a little more cumbersome than the Microcom HDMS
chassis they replaced -- the Microcom INC (Intellegent Network Controller)
has more usable intellegence than the entire TC chassis and it's a 68K based
thing. BUT, once you get used to it -- and write your own software for
managing them -- the TC hardware is quite usable. It's got its quirks, but
everything else does too.
As for the AS5300... Cicso will give you a trade-in for the hardware you
replace -- most serious hardware vendors will, so that's not a real key
motivator. The best thing about the 5300 is the chassis-cost density. It
will handle 4 T1/PRI (E1's too) in ~2RU's for ~20-30k$US as opposed to the
USR 2 T1/PRI with quads (~10k$US) or 14 T1/PRI with hiperDSP/ARC ($$$) in 6RU.
IMHO, if 3com/USR wants to stay in this business, then they need to wise up
to the fact that everyone on the planet doesn't have a need for hiperDSP
hardware. Interpath is fairly large ISP and we only have maybe 4 locations
that could benefit from hiperDSP modem desities. Quad modems and the
NetServer are still a *very* good bundle. Maybe the hiperARC works just
as well (I'll let ya' know once I get my hands on one) but it seems like
an enormous waste of processing power. [I've got 386-40/4MB netblazers
that handle things better than the 486dx4-100/32MB netservers which only
strengthens my view that the netserver os code is a waste of drive space.]
If 3Com doesn't want to fix the netserver os, then give the rest of us enough
information to write our own os.
--Ricky
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Randy,
Before adopting some other manufacturers like Microcom ( AS5200 ), Tele=
bit
( AS5300 )....., Cisco had an OEM contract with USRobotics that we
cancelled several years ago. While this phase of agreement, we supplied=
our
products to Cisco ( Modem Cards ) and Cisco added their routing card ( =
IOS
on board ). That's the reason for which the AS5100 looks like the TC
chassis.
Regards.
St=E9phane Kerfers
Network Consultant - 3Com / USRobotics Carrier
Randy Cosby <dcosby@infowest.com> on 17/07/98 15:46:43
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I just ran across a "for sale" ad for one of these. It looks a lot like
a Total Control unit. Is it the same?
Randy
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Chris Peltier was heard to say:
>Failure to fix the UDP packet loss in the NetServer is what I consider
>unacceptable and hence no-support.
>Are you suggesting that there will be future software release(s) to fix
>this and other problems?
>I see no value in any support contracts unless they do continue future
>software releases for the NetServer. Especially now since this
>equipment can be had for < 50 cents on the dollar and dropping fast.
The real problem is the amount 3Com wants to support the hardware. The
Netserver is not going to get anything but serious bug fixes as they no
longer have a license for the ComOS running on it and they are unwilling
to write a new OS for it (as I see it, a fairly trivial thing.)
3Com restructured the support offering and seems to have failed to price
them based on the cost of the hardware. I was quoted 160k$US for support
for our 47 chassis -- I laughed. That's more than 1/4 the original purchase
cost of the 47 chassis from last year. At that rate, we could flat out
replace 16 chassis. Software support alone is 1800$US per chassis.
Why should we paid 85k$US for software support when we aren't being supported?
And pretty soon, there will be no more software updates for the hardware
we have and use (i.e. Netservers)? Out of 47 chassis', we've had very little
hardware break; we have spare hardware on hand so 24hr replacement is
not needed -- if you can get it fixed and back to us in 2 weeks, then we're
happy.
Maybe 3Com should look at how other vendors are doing things... like Ascend
and Faralon maybe? There are several versions of the Ascend P50 and Ascend
still provides free software updates for all of them despite the fact that
some of the older models have not been in production for several years.
Look at Cisco... their support is what 15% of the hardware cost? And in
some cases, you don't need a support contract to get help or updated code.
If you call 3Com support without a valid contract ID, they will hangup
on you. (That's just rude. We are, after all, a 3Com customer.)
I think the real problem is that 3Com/USR is selling there products well
below development and support costs. And now they are trying to make up
some of the loses by charging insane amounts for very little support.
Just look at how many times *you* have called 3Com for help.
Isn't it odd how much 3Com will cosy up to you when they think they are
about to lose your business? They need to stop playing these games... this
is what it costs - period. If you want a better deal, draw up a contract.
(Again, this is the way Cisco works. And it's the way Faralon works.)
I also like the way we are their software/hardware testers. Those in the
beta program(s) don't get anything out of it. They (we) get early access
to software and in some rare cases, hardware. About 75% of the time, the
bugs that are reported are ignored. (Every one of the bugs I reported for
TCM were ignored.)
--Ricky
Subject:RE: (usr-tc) Possible fix for HiperDSP modem 1 in down-up state ? From: Robert von Bismarck <rvb@petrel.ch> Date: 1998-07-17 17:40:17
We use a script which snmpgets all the required info. Here's an example
for modem utilization on an ARC.
It's a fast hack with a UNIX shell script. Perl would have been better,
but heck... it's just a couple lines ;-)
mrtg.cfg
Replace A.B.C.D in the 1st line by the IP Address of your ARC
[snip]
Target[arc1.1]: `/opt/mrtg/bin/tclget A.B.C.D`
PageTop[arc1.1]: <H1>Total Control 1 ARC 1</H1>
MaxBytes[arc1.1]: 420
Title[arc1.1]: Total Control 1 ARC 1
Supress[arc1.1]: ym
Options[arc1.1]: gauge, absolute
YLegend[arc1.1]: Modems
ShortLegend[arc1.1]: Modems
[snap]
tclget
Replace public in line 5 by your RO snmp community string
[snip]
#!/sbin/sh
MIBFILE=/opt/mrtg/bin/mib.txt
export MIBFILE
mv /tmp/ifspeed.$1 /tmp/ifspeed.$1.old 2>/dev/null
/usr/local/shareware/snmp-2.1.2l2/apps/snmpwalk -v 1 $1 public
interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifSpeed > /tmp/ifspeed.$1
toto=`wc -l /tmp/ifspeed.$1 | awk ' { print $1}'`
if [ "$toto" -lt 10 ]
then
mv /tmp/ifspeed.$1.old /tmp/ifspeed.$1 2> /dev/null
fi
cat /tmp/ifspeed.$1 | awk -f /usr/local/shareware/snmp-2.1.2l2/awkf |
/bin/head -1 | tee /tmp/tcl.$1.modem
[snap]
Hope this helps you building nice graphs...
Oh yeah, you'll need some kind of SNMP package to get the actual data,
we use an old version of snmpwalk we found on the web, but well, any
package with the correct MIB should do the trick...
Robert von Bismarck
Petrel Communications SA
PS : comments about the code are welcome....
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Peltier [SMTP:CPELTIER@iectech.com]
> Sent: mercredi, 15. juillet 1998 17:59
> To: 'rvb@petrel.ch'
> Subject: RE: (usr-tc) Possible fix for HiperDSP modem 1 in
> down-up state ?
>
>
> What kind of mrtg.cfg entries do you use to get modem
> utilization, etc.. from you Hyper ARC/DSP? If you
> don't mind me asking.
>
> Sincerely,
> Chris Peltier
>
> * email: CPeltier@NetCarrier.com
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>
>
>
> >----------
> >From: Robert von Bismarck[SMTP:rvb@petrel.ch]
> >Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 1998 12:04 PM
> >To: 'usr-tc@xmission.com'
> >Subject: (usr-tc) Possible fix for HiperDSP modem 1 in down-up
> state ?
> >
> >
> >Greetings,
> >
> >We had some trouble for a while with the 1st modem of some HiPerDSP
> >cards staying in the down - up state when I did a list conn on the
> >associated ARC. We finally solved this problem by making a mistake
> (!).
> >I had to reset the configuration of several DSP's and forgot to put
> the
> >modems into Round-Robin. So they stayed in "Fixed Assignment" and,
> >POOF,
> >the problem went away, my MRTG graphs showed that all my modems went
> up
> >when I reset all the modems with the new config !!!
> >Is this a known fix for this bug ?
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Robert von Bismarck
> >
> >PS : I had the telco set my hunt group to cyclic, so that the modems
> >get
> >picked up in a simili-roundrobin fashion, so as to equalize the load
> on
> >all the ports...
> >
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Jeff Mcadams was heard to say:
>>AND, it's got next to no LED status feedback on it.
>
>Yeah, but its Cisco, you don't *need* LED status feedback on it. You
>can get feedback from the thing in any other way imaginable, SNMP,
>telnet, CDP, you name it! :)
Umm, blinky flashy lights?
Nothing impresses customers more than lots of blinkin' lights in the NOC
when they get a tour. And the USR hardware is one of the best sellers
along side the SMC switches (yeah, it's workgroup device, but them
blinkin' lights grabs the eye -- CBS thought it was "impressive")
Staring at a 6' rack full of 2RU grey boxes just doesn't do it for me :-)
--Ricky
PS: have you ever stood infront of a quad modem rack during an SDL? or a
chassis wide hardware/software reset? (I thrill the helpdesker's doing
that :-))
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Jeff Mcadams wrote:
> >I've been looking at one... If you can figure out how to get the thing to
> >act correctly, then it's not too bad of a box. Of course, it's k56 based
> >(Telebit MICA Modem technology -- personally, I'd take the MICAblazer.)
> >AND, it's got next to no LED status feedback on it.
>
> Yeah, but its Cisco, you don't *need* LED status feedback on it. You
> can get feedback from the thing in any other way imaginable, SNMP,
> telnet, CDP, you name it! :)
Some of us happen to *LIKE* LED's which help us diagnose a problem when we
have a field tech working on things. Field tech's often don't carry full
Win95 machines around with them to run TCM, etc., and are normally not
qualified to do all the maintenance that we do from home. It's not that
we don't want them to have that knowlege, it's a whole heck of a lot
cheaper though, to pay someone who knows how to read LED's than it is to
train them to understand complicated settings enough to become a network
engineer. Watching lights is boring you say? That's okay. They're also
an added plus when showing off equipment. Customers like to see lots of
lights and since our network ops room is behind glass, we'd like it to be
a good PR thing.
Now, if only we can get 3Com to support those NetServers like they're
supposed to... Are we looking at Cisco and Ascend? You betcha. Up until
recently, we've been basically a USR/3Com house. I guess 3Com hasn't
learned not to throw rocks in a glass house yet. Their recent activity
with the NetServer has been a huge rock. So much for keeping customers
who buy 10+ chassis a year happy...
Kevin Benton
Network Engineer
SOTA Technologies, Inc.
E-Mail: s1kevin@tims.net
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Thus spake Ricky Beam
>Jeff Mcadams was heard to say:
>>>AND, it's got next to no LED status feedback on it.
>>
>>Yeah, but its Cisco, you don't *need* LED status feedback on it. You
>>can get feedback from the thing in any other way imaginable, SNMP,
>>telnet, CDP, you name it! :)
>Umm, blinky flashy lights?
Well, yeah, yeah, be pedantic! :)
For actual *functionality*, Cisco's do fine with that. Agreed, they are
kinda boring to show people. :) But they're also kinda boring to admin
since they just work, so I guess that kinda goes hand in hand.
>Nothing impresses customers more than lots of blinkin' lights in the NOC
>when they get a tour. And the USR hardware is one of the best sellers
>along side the SMC switches (yeah, it's workgroup device, but them
>blinkin' lights grabs the eye -- CBS thought it was "impressive")
>Staring at a 6' rack full of 2RU grey boxes just doesn't do it for me :-)
>PS: have you ever stood infront of a quad modem rack during an SDL? or a
> chassis wide hardware/software reset? (I thrill the helpdesker's doing
> that :-))
Indeed, upgrades are quite impressive to watch. :)
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-> >Ameritech only includes one D-channel per PRI trunk group. They >want like
-> $150/mo per additional D channel. The Dual T1/PRI card >isn't too bad since
-> I wouldn't want to run more than say 3 or 4 >spans from a single D, but the
-> inability of the DSP to support >NFAS on at least the same chassis is
-> somewhat rediculous. If
-> >D channels were free, it wouldn't matter as much. I wouldn't mind >burning
-> a B channel on each span for a D channel to get the independence >on each
-> span but at significant telco cost increases, it looks like >the PM3s with
-> multichassis NFAS support win again in this round.
-> Hrmm...I don't know...I would think a CLEC would win over Ameritech (if
-> available, I know not everyone has CLEC's available everywhere) in this
-> round rather than switching NAS equipment. (I've never been
-> particularly impressed with Ameritech anyway).
We buy Ameritech services from a CLEC at 40% off of Ameritech's prices
and there is no extra charge for a D channel on each PRI.
Jeff Binkley
ASA Network Computing
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) IP address pool From: Tatai SV Krishnan <tkrishna@bubba.ae.usr.com> Date: 1998-07-17 20:32:26
Number of active modems + 1
krish
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Any Sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable for a feature.
- Rick Kulawiec
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, dbaud wrote:
> When assigning an address pool on Netserver or even Harc, what is the recomended pool size for a chassis with 2 PRI's?
>
> Donald Baud
>
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Subject:(usr-tc) IP address pool From: dbaud <dbaud@bigfoot.com> Date: 1998-07-17 23:33:18
When assigning an address pool on Netserver or even Harc, what is the recomended pool size for a chassis with 2 PRI's?
Donald Baud
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) IP address pool From: K Mitchell <mitch@keyconn.net> Date: 1998-07-18 00:42:13
At 11:33 PM 7/17/98 -0400, you wrote:
>When assigning an address pool on Netserver or even Harc, what is the
recomended pool size for a chassis with 2 PRI's?
I went ahead and assigned 96 to mine(HARC), that gives me room to expand to
2 more PRI's without having to worry about juggling numbers.
Kirk
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) need help with usr netserver 8/16 and cisco doing RIP From: Tatai SV Krishnan <tkrishna@bubba.ae.usr.com> Date: 1998-07-18 01:09:45
On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Ken Hunter, Aspiring Technologies wrote:
> need to be able to do RIP V1 or V2 (prefer V2) between usr netserver 8/16
> and cisco 2501 running 11.xx ios - anyone care to share their setup notes.
> Netserver documentation is about as clear as mud.
>
> P.S. plz hurry,
On the NETServer enable rip version 2 and disable rip options - send_compat
set ip net ip rip ripv2
set ip net work ip rip_policy no_send_compat
This will for the NETServer to use multicast for ripv2 and cisco wil
understand this. with send_compa you will be sending rip v 2 with broadcast
krish
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ken :)
>
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) IP address pool From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com> Date: 1998-07-18 05:31:53
Thus spake dbaud
>When assigning an address pool on Netserver or even Harc, what is the recomended pool size for a chassis with 2 PRI's?
I use 48 and have had no problems, it is a nice idea to add an extra one
or two in there so it doesn't try to assign one to the console port and
so use up and extra IP number.
Considering that with 2 PRI's, you most likely only have 46 ports that
actually get used, 48 should leave you some buffer, but to *really* be
safe, make it 49 (48 channels on the PRIs and the console port).
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Subject:(usr-tc) need help with usr netserver 8/16 and cisco doing RIP From: Ken Hunter, Aspiring Technologies <ken@aspire.net> Date: 1998-07-18 11:13:19
need to be able to do RIP V1 or V2 (prefer V2) between usr netserver 8/16
and cisco 2501 running 11.xx ios - anyone care to share their setup notes.
Netserver documentation is about as clear as mud.
P.S. plz hurry,
Thanks in advance,
Ken :)
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Once upon a time Ricky Beam shaped the electrons to say...
>I've been looking at one... If you can figure out how to get the thing to
>act correctly, then it's not too bad of a box. Of course, it's k56 based
Of course, now that V.90 is appearing that seems to be a moot point.
>(Telebit MICA Modem technology -- personally, I'd take the MICAblazer.)
Jesus, WHY? The MICABlazer *sucks* from a HW design aspect, as well as OS.
The AS5300 is a far superior unit. Besides, Cisco owns MICA now, they
dod the development.
Besides, the MICABlazer is dead. ITK has all but totally killed it,
OS 3.4 is still pending, and after that very little is expected. You
should see the Telebit mailing list.
>AND, it's got next to no LED status feedback on it.
I've never understood the LED thing - but have you seen Lucents PMVision
(formerly codenamed 'Amber') and the onscreen backpanel display? :-)
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) need help with usr netserver 8/16 and cisco doing RIP From: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@interpath.net> Date: 1998-07-18 22:24:24
Ken Hunter, Aspiring Technologies was heard to say:
>need to be able to do RIP V1 or V2 (prefer V2) between usr netserver 8/16
>and cisco 2501 running 11.xx ios - anyone care to share their setup notes.
>Netserver documentation is about as clear as mud.
Netserver:
set default off
set net0 routing broadcast
set net0 enabled
set proxy on (optional depending on your setup)
set ripv2 on
save all
(wait for the flash write to finish [show flash])
reboot
Cicso: (2501 config)
(passive-interface means don't transmit on that interface)
!
router ospf 1
redistribute static subnets
redistribute rip metric-type 1 subnets
passive-interface Serial0
passive-interface Serial1
network 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 area 0.0.0.0
!
router rip
! the version directive limits to ONE version of rip
! without it, the cisco will process both v1 and v2
version 2
passive-interface Ethernet0
passive-interface Serial0
passive-interface Serial1
network xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
--Ricky
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) IP address pool From: Michael Mittelstadt <meek@execpc.com> Date: 1998-07-19 01:38:25
[Quoth dbaud]
] When assigning an address pool on Netserver or even Harc, what is
] the recomended pool size for a chassis with 2 PRI's?
If you have IP space to spare:
Maximum number of users in box, plus where you might expand to in the
next year. Then, round up to the next power of two. That way, even
if you're not currently announcing routes via RIP, you will be able to
announce a nice big fat aggregate route if you ever decide to go that
route.
So, if you're at two PRI's, that's 46 potential users. 64 IP's (/26)
would do good. Use the second through second-last addresses for the
pool, because it's probably not wise to use the network and broadcast
addresses.
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Subject:(usr-tc) hung modem From: Leon McCalla <ascend@caribbeanlink.com> Date: 1998-07-19 11:10:19
for some reason I have two quad modems that seem to be hung and
co-incidentally my TCM isn't connecting to the chassis. is there any way
that I can take the modems "off hook" or busy them out remotely?
Leon
(trying not to have to drive to the office but it seems inevitable)
What are people's experiences with the new code to allow V.90 on the HiPer
DSP? Any major problems?
Eric
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To see modem firmware type
set imodem interface mod:1 at ati7
Good luck
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Subject:(usr-tc) Total Control & v.90 From: Russ Miescke <russm@powerweb.net> Date: 1998-07-19 22:08:59
We have a Total Control unit with 48 digital & analog/digital quad modems.
Our NMC has only 4 meg of RAM. Does the v.90 code require 16? We have
upgraded the Netserver to 16, but I do not see anything on the NMC. If 16
is required, is it just 72 pin non-parity simms?
Russ Miescke
Power Web Connect
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Total Control & v.90 From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com> Date: 1998-07-19 23:38:33
Thus spake Russ Miescke
>We have a Total Control unit with 48 digital & analog/digital quad modems.
>Our NMC has only 4 meg of RAM. Does the v.90 code require 16? We have
>upgraded the Netserver to 16, but I do not see anything on the NMC. If 16
>is required, is it just 72 pin non-parity simms?
No, v.90 does not requite the NMC to be upgraded. Using the HiPer cards
is what requires the NMC to get the 16 MB memory upgrade.
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On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Goemon Ishikawa wrote:
> We're having a weird problem with the new HiperARC. The NMC card
> configured and came up no problem bringing up its NIC on 10bt ether. We
> configured the HiperARC and it refused to bring up the NIC. The ARC would
> boot, but 'sh int eth:1' would always show 'Operational Status: Down'. It
> would refuse to talk to ethernet.
>
How are you connecting to a switch or a hub. Is this switch/hub
autodetect 100b/10b ? Check the cable - make sure that you have a
correct ethernet cable.
> We found out that if you booted the ARC with 10bt plugged in, it would
> come up 'Down', but if you plugged in 10bt _after_ the ARC was booted, it
> works fine, and shows 'Operational Status: Up'. Sounds like the ARC
> software has a problem auto-sensing 10/100 on boot?
>
The arc software will autodetect and also has a periodic function to
check for the status and reset the port if there is a link problem.
What switch is this attached to?
krish
> It's not bad hardware as we have had the ARC and NIC replaced.
>
> The HiperARC is running V4.0.29.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Netserver16 From: Richard Bosire <bosire@nairobi.africaonline.co.ke> Date: 1998-07-20 09:06:31
Hi ..
ver is the command you need..
cheers
vosire
Greg Coffey wrote:
> How can I tell what firmware ver the modems in my netserver 16 are
> currently running? If I telnet in to one of them, is there a command to
> check this?
>
> Thanks,
> Greg Coffey CoffeyNet 307-234-5443
> 142 S. Center St. www.coffey.com
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Subject:RE: (usr-tc) MIB's for the HiperARC ? From: Mike Wronski <mike@coredump.ae.usr.com> Date: 1998-07-20 09:20:22
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
>[mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Robert von Bismarck
>Sent: Monday, July 20, 1998 3:52 AM
>To: 'usr-tc@xmission.com'
>Subject: (usr-tc) MIB's for the HiperARC ?
>
>
>Just a thought,
>
>I was moving through the MIB's, and found some interesting details,
>among which TCS 3.1 does not seem to have a MIB for the ARC.
>Is there such an thing ?
>
>Thanks for any pointers, hints and others opinions are welcome...
Since TCM does not control the HARC, its mibs are not included with TCM..
ARC mibs are distributed with the HARC software.
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Goemon Ishikawa wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Tatai SV Krishnan wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Goemon Ishikawa wrote:
> > > We're having a weird problem with the new HiperARC. The NMC card
> > > configured and came up no problem bringing up its NIC on 10bt ether. We
> > > configured the HiperARC and it refused to bring up the NIC. The ARC would
> > > boot, but 'sh int eth:1' would always show 'Operational Status: Down'. It
> > > would refuse to talk to ethernet.
> > How are you connecting to a switch or a hub.
>
> SMC Elite 3512TP hub.
>
> > Is this switch/hub autodetect 100b/10b ?
>
> It is 10mb hub only, not switch.
>
> > Check the cable - make sure that you have a correct ethernet cable.
>
> This cable is correct, it works on the NIC of the NMC card perfectly, and
> on other computers. We have checked with other cables too. They also work
> on NMC card fine, but not NAC.
>
> > > We found out that if you booted the ARC with 10bt plugged in, it would
> > > come up 'Down', but if you plugged in 10bt _after_ the ARC was booted, it
> > > works fine, and shows 'Operational Status: Up'. Sounds like the ARC
> > > software has a problem auto-sensing 10/100 on boot?
> > The arc software will autodetect and also has a periodic function to
> > check for the status and reset the port if there is a link problem.
>
> It seems that if the NIC is plugged into ethernet on bootup, it fails. But
> if you plug in ethernet _after_ bootup, it works.
>
> This sounds to me like it's a software bug in ARC.
This is not a software bug. It looks more like the way the ethernet hub
interface / communication problem. When you say that you boot Hiper arc
and plug in the cable everything works, that tell me that the hub is
looking for signal to send any port signals back. So now once you get
the hiper arc up like this and if you power off the hub and power it on
back does the link die?
In my opinion it should, tells me something is wrong with the hub. In
the arc software there is a reset mechanism, if the link does not come up
then the ethernet port will be reset - it is same as you disconnecting
the cable and inserting it on back.
krish
>
> > What switch is this attached to?
>
> It is SMC 3512TP hub, not switch. Everything on the LAN is 10mb. No other
> devices (cisco, computers, etc) have any problems. Only the TC HiperARC
> NIC has problems.
>
> -Dan
>
>
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On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Goemon Ishikawa wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Mike Wronski wrote:
> > >It's not bad hardware as we have had the ARC and NIC replaced.
> > >The HiperARC is running V4.0.29.
> > >Any ideas?
> > What kind of 10/100 Hub are you using?
>
> We determined the problem.
>
> HiperNMC NIC likes SMC 3512TP hub.
> HiperARC NIC does not like SMC 3512TP hub. But works with any other hub.
>
What is different between these two hubs? apart from cost?
> No other equipment has problem with SMC 3512TP hub. Cisco, X-Terminals,
> PC, Mac, Terminal Servers, work fine. HiperARC NIC does not :-(
>
Have not seen any problems with with smc tiger hubs, if hiper arc has a
problem so should most of the ethernet devices using digital 100/10 chip...
Well any way its nice to see your problem go away - but still would like
to test what happens if the hub is power off during operations with the
hiper arc?
krish
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On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Robert von Bismarck wrote:
>[munch]
> So the point is, NT sucks on bad hardware, if you need NT, buy
> computers from a known brand like HP (no I don't work for them, they jut
> build great PC's) and it'll do okay.
Not to drift any farther off topic, but...
To be fair, Unix sucks just as bad on bad hardware. I've run into many a
machine that will run Windows 95/98 seemingly fine, but will keel over
dead very quickly when presented with either NT Workstation or FreeBSD.
In fact, my hardware burn-in test for any machine suspected of hardware
problems is to install the FreeBSD source tree on it and do a "make world"
to recompile the entire operating system. (It's also a cool benchmark. :)
On a P-200 or a P2-233 this takes just under 2 hours; on a P-75 it takes
about 19 hours... and it's very intensive on disk, memory, and CPU all at
once for the entire duration. If it survives three successive "make
world"s without gcc dumping core, it's assumed that the hardware will not
die.
We had a Win95 machine (an IBM Aptiva) that GPFed a slight bit more than
usual, but otherwise ran fine. We swapped in a drive with FreeBSD on it
and did the make world test. It flunked within 10 minutes.
FWIW, we don't use any name-brand machines here, save one old Dell and
some very very old DEC Venturis machines that was donated... We do use
name brand *components* though, like Asus and Abit motherboards, Enlight
cases, parity/ECC memory... As long as you don't use bargain-basement
stuff, you can do just as good or better building your own.
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) MIB's for the HiperARC ? From: Mike Andrews <mandrews@termfrost.org> Date: 1998-07-20 10:27:02
Look for usr_hiper.mib. It's in one of the MIB zipfiles, I think. It
definitely exists somewhere. If you can't find it, snmpwalk
1.3.6.1.4.1.429.4 and make wild guesses as to what everything is. :)
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On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Robert von Bismarck wrote:
> Just a thought,
>
> I was moving through the MIB's, and found some interesting details,
> among which TCS 3.1 does not seem to have a MIB for the ARC.
> Is there such an thing ?
>
> Thanks for any pointers, hints and others opinions are welcome...
>
> Robert von Bismarck
> Petrel Communications SA
>
>
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Subject:(usr-tc) MIB's for the HiperARC ? From: Robert von Bismarck <rvb@petrel.ch> Date: 1998-07-20 10:52:09
Just a thought,
I was moving through the MIB's, and found some interesting details,
among which TCS 3.1 does not seem to have a MIB for the ARC.
Is there such an thing ?
Thanks for any pointers, hints and others opinions are welcome...
Robert von Bismarck
Petrel Communications SA
OK, enough is enough.
I have been patiently letting these messages go and deleting them, but no
more.
It is bad enough wading through the actually legimate messages that
do not pertain to me or my configuration. I don't need these tantrums
clogging up my e-mail.
This is not the forum for a UNIX vs. NT spitting contest. (I am trying
to be polite)
So, for the last time........ DROP IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
rod
rvb@petrel.ch on 07/20/98 04:25:29 AM
Please respond to usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
cc: (bcc: Roderick S Lambes/TMG/CSC)
[snip]
>
> BTW, I have many WindowsNT mission critical machines here running
> from SQL Server to RadiusNT and DNS that haven't been rebooted
> in months. These are heavily used machines built correctly and
> work. This is NOT an exception as most of out customer can atest
> to this as well.
>
This is interesting, You speak of "correctly built machines". We
had some troubles with NT machines (built with discount hardware), then
moved over to monsters built by HP (which I can only recommend) and it's
been stable since then. Performance is still worth shit, for the same
price I get about 50% more TPS on a Sparc Ultra-2 with Sybase than NT
and MSSQL.
Price-performance ratio is definitely in favor of UNIX,
stability is par.
What's left ?
The GUI looks better on NT... (just kidding)
Some apps only run on NT like Merchant Server...and visual
interdev...
So the point is, NT sucks on bad hardware, if you need NT, buy
computers from a known brand like HP (no I don't work for them, they jut
build great PC's) and it'll do okay.
Just my 0.02$ worth
Cheers,
Robert von Bismarck
Petrel Communications SA
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Subject:RE: (usr-tc) Radius recommendations From: Robert von Bismarck <rvb@petrel.ch> Date: 1998-07-20 11:25:29
[snip]
>
> BTW, I have many WindowsNT mission critical machines here running
> from SQL Server to RadiusNT and DNS that haven't been rebooted
> in months. These are heavily used machines built correctly and
> work. This is NOT an exception as most of out customer can atest
> to this as well.
>
This is interesting, You speak of "correctly built machines". We
had some troubles with NT machines (built with discount hardware), then
moved over to monsters built by HP (which I can only recommend) and it's
been stable since then. Performance is still worth shit, for the same
price I get about 50% more TPS on a Sparc Ultra-2 with Sybase than NT
and MSSQL.
Price-performance ratio is definitely in favor of UNIX,
stability is par.
What's left ?
The GUI looks better on NT... (just kidding)
Some apps only run on NT like Merchant Server...and visual
interdev...
So the point is, NT sucks on bad hardware, if you need NT, buy
computers from a known brand like HP (no I don't work for them, they jut
build great PC's) and it'll do okay.
Just my 0.02$ worth
Cheers,
Robert von Bismarck
Petrel Communications SA
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Ricky Beam said once upon a time:
>The real problem is the amount 3Com wants to support the hardware. The
>Netserver is not going to get anything but serious bug fixes as they no
>longer have a license for the ComOS running on it and they are unwilling
>to write a new OS for it (as I see it, a fairly trivial thing.)
There was talk about backporting the ARC OS to the Netserver in the early
days of the ARC. I wonder what ever happened to that?
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Jeff Mcadams wrote:
> Hrmm...I don't know...I would think a CLEC would win over Ameritech (if
> available, I know not everyone has CLEC's available everywhere) in this
> round rather than switching NAS equipment. (I've never been
> particularly impressed with Ameritech anyway).
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Several factors at work here, current negotiations preclude me from
disclosing, but now that TC limitations are better understood, looks like
the scales are tipped once again.
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On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Curt Shambeau wrote:
> > Ameritech only includes one D-channel per PRI trunk group. They
> > want like $150/mo per additional D channel. The Dual T1/PRI card
>
> Ameritech in your area maybe. Up here in WI they don't do that.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Right, state regulatory issue. They get away with what ever the individual
state regulatory commission will allow. Indiana sucks.
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On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Pete Ashdown wrote:
> Ricky Beam said once upon a time:
>
> >The real problem is the amount 3Com wants to support the hardware. The
> >Netserver is not going to get anything but serious bug fixes as they no
> >longer have a license for the ComOS running on it and they are unwilling
> >to write a new OS for it (as I see it, a fairly trivial thing.)
>
> There was talk about backporting the ARC OS to the Netserver in the early
> days of the ARC. I wonder what ever happened to that?
That was my question a little while back, and nobody ever answered it.
They obviously have it running on the 486 platform -- witness the
Netserver 8/16/8I/16I Plus, or the Viper DSL. Maybe not robust in their
current state, but it's at least somewhat there. In theory the packet bus
code wouldn't be too hard to rip out of their other codebases (Edgeserver,
NETserver, whatever). What's left?
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Subject:(usr-tc) Syslog utility for NT From: Tony Loosle <tony@tcsourceone.com> Date: 1998-07-20 15:53:47
Where can I find a syslog utility for nt to grap the stuff from a netserver 16?
Any help would be appreciated.
Tony
I have a HiPer chassis with PRIs coming into HiPer DSPs in slots 14 and 15.
Calling the lead phone # for the PRI in slot 15 accesses a modem in slot
14. Bell Atlantic reports that there is no problem with the 2nd PRI. As far
as I can tell, there is nothing wrong with the DSP in 15, even a <List
available interfaces> shows all of the modems in slot 15 up. Is there
something I'm missing?
Thanks,
Kirk
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-> I have a HiPer chassis with PRIs coming into HiPer DSPs in slots 14 and 15.
-> Calling the lead phone # for the PRI in slot 15 accesses a modem in slot 14.
-> Bell Atlantic reports that there is no problem with the 2nd PRI. As far as I
-> can tell, there is nothing wrong with the DSP in 15, even a <List available
-> interfaces> shows all of the modems in slot 15 up. Is there something I'm
-> missing?
Issue an In Service command from TCM against the PRI in slot 14.
Jeff Binkley
ASA Network Computing
Subject:RE: (usr-tc) Problems with HiperARC 10/100 card? From: Mike Wronski <mike@coredump.ae.usr.com> Date: 1998-07-20 17:02:09
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
>[mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Goemon Ishikawa
>Sent: Monday, July 20, 1998 3:21 PM
>To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
>Subject: (usr-tc) Problems with HiperARC 10/100 card?
>
>
>We're having a weird problem with the new HiperARC. The NMC card
>configured and came up no problem bringing up its NIC on 10bt ether. We
>configured the HiperARC and it refused to bring up the NIC. The ARC would
>boot, but 'sh int eth:1' would always show 'Operational Status: Down'. It
>would refuse to talk to ethernet.
>
>We found out that if you booted the ARC with 10bt plugged in, it would
>come up 'Down', but if you plugged in 10bt _after_ the ARC was booted, it
>works fine, and shows 'Operational Status: Up'. Sounds like the ARC
>software has a problem auto-sensing 10/100 on boot?
>
>It's not bad hardware as we have had the ARC and NIC replaced.
>
>The HiperARC is running V4.0.29.
>
>Any ideas?
What kind of 10/100 Hub are you using?
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Rob Bankoski wrote:
> Could anyone help us on this problem. When we use our dial up connection to
> connect to our lan, we can only ping one of our 2 main servers. We can ping
> one server from the other but can only ping one once we dial into either of
> our chassis. We have spent numerous hours on hold with 3COM tech support to
> no avail. We haven't even heard a human voice yet.
>
What are you using Hiper ARc or NETServer?
What is the IP address of the dialup user and Netmask?
what is the route that you see in your NAS?
krish
> Rob Bankoski
> Triangle MLS
>
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We're having a weird problem with the new HiperARC. The NMC card
configured and came up no problem bringing up its NIC on 10bt ether. We
configured the HiperARC and it refused to bring up the NIC. The ARC would
boot, but 'sh int eth:1' would always show 'Operational Status: Down'. It
would refuse to talk to ethernet.
We found out that if you booted the ARC with 10bt plugged in, it would
come up 'Down', but if you plugged in 10bt _after_ the ARC was booted, it
works fine, and shows 'Operational Status: Up'. Sounds like the ARC
software has a problem auto-sensing 10/100 on boot?
It's not bad hardware as we have had the ARC and NIC replaced.
The HiperARC is running V4.0.29.
Any ideas?
On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Tatai SV Krishnan wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Goemon Ishikawa wrote:
> > We're having a weird problem with the new HiperARC. The NMC card
> > configured and came up no problem bringing up its NIC on 10bt ether. We
> > configured the HiperARC and it refused to bring up the NIC. The ARC would
> > boot, but 'sh int eth:1' would always show 'Operational Status: Down'. It
> > would refuse to talk to ethernet.
> How are you connecting to a switch or a hub.
SMC Elite 3512TP hub.
> Is this switch/hub autodetect 100b/10b ?
It is 10mb hub only, not switch.
> Check the cable - make sure that you have a correct ethernet cable.
This cable is correct, it works on the NIC of the NMC card perfectly, and
on other computers. We have checked with other cables too. They also work
on NMC card fine, but not NAC.
> > We found out that if you booted the ARC with 10bt plugged in, it would
> > come up 'Down', but if you plugged in 10bt _after_ the ARC was booted, it
> > works fine, and shows 'Operational Status: Up'. Sounds like the ARC
> > software has a problem auto-sensing 10/100 on boot?
> The arc software will autodetect and also has a periodic function to
> check for the status and reset the port if there is a link problem.
It seems that if the NIC is plugged into ethernet on bootup, it fails. But
if you plug in ethernet _after_ bootup, it works.
This sounds to me like it's a software bug in ARC.
> What switch is this attached to?
It is SMC 3512TP hub, not switch. Everything on the LAN is 10mb. No other
devices (cisco, computers, etc) have any problems. Only the TC HiperARC
NIC has problems.
-Dan
Subject:(usr-tc) Problems pinging From: Rob Bankoski <robb@triangle-mls.com> Date: 1998-07-21 09:36:16
Could anyone help us on this problem. When we use our dial up connection to
connect to our lan, we can only ping one of our 2 main servers. We can ping
one server from the other but can only ping one once we dial into either of
our chassis. We have spent numerous hours on hold with 3COM tech support to
no avail. We haven't even heard a human voice yet.
Rob Bankoski
Triangle MLS
On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Mike Wronski wrote:
> >It's not bad hardware as we have had the ARC and NIC replaced.
> >The HiperARC is running V4.0.29.
> >Any ideas?
> What kind of 10/100 Hub are you using?
We determined the problem.
HiperNMC NIC likes SMC 3512TP hub.
HiperARC NIC does not like SMC 3512TP hub. But works with any other hub.
No other equipment has problem with SMC 3512TP hub. Cisco, X-Terminals,
PC, Mac, Terminal Servers, work fine. HiperARC NIC does not :-(
If you really enjoy Fleetwood Mac its not so bad.
Are all the devices on the same IP subnet?
Can you ping other devices on the same subnets as the servers?
Do both the servers have defined routes back to the chassis.
What is the default gateway of the HiPer ARC or NetServer?
Can you ping the ethernet interface of the HiPer ARC or NetServer and NMC
when dialing in?
robb@triangle-mls.com on 07/21/98 11:36:16 AM
Please respond to usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
cc: (bcc: Roderick S Lambes/TMG/CSC)
Could anyone help us on this problem. When we use our dial up connection
to
connect to our lan, we can only ping one of our 2 main servers. We can
ping
one server from the other but can only ping one once we dial into either of
our chassis. We have spent numerous hours on hold with 3COM tech support
to
no avail. We haven't even heard a human voice yet.
Rob Bankoski
Triangle MLS
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Subject:(usr-tc) v.90 hiper? From: System Administrator <sysadmin@evcom.net> Date: 1998-07-21 10:58:27
Has anyone on this list had any experience (positive or negative) with
running the v.90 hiper code on a non-ARC TC? (i.e. Netserver)
I understand it's not "approved", but our customers are really screaming
for it.
Many thanks,
--
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Evolution Communications, Inc.
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Subject:RE: (usr-tc) Problems with HiperARC 10/100 card? From: Andres Kroonmaa <andre@ml.ee> Date: 1998-07-21 11:05:09
On 20 Jul 98, at 9:29, Tatai SV Krishnan <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Goemon Ishikawa wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Mike Wronski wrote:
> > > >It's not bad hardware as we have had the ARC and NIC replaced.
> > > >The HiperARC is running V4.0.29.
> > > >Any ideas?
> > > What kind of 10/100 Hub are you using?
> >
> > We determined the problem.
> >
> > HiperNMC NIC likes SMC 3512TP hub.
> > HiperARC NIC does not like SMC 3512TP hub. But works with any other hub.
> >
> > No other equipment has problem with SMC 3512TP hub. Cisco, X-Terminals,
> > PC, Mac, Terminal Servers, work fine. HiperARC NIC does not :-(
>
> Have not seen any problems with with smc tiger hubs, if hiper arc has a
> problem so should most of the ethernet devices using digital 100/10 chip...
>
> Well any way its nice to see your problem go away - but still would like
> to test what happens if the hub is power off during operations with the
> hiper arc?
Perfaps it has to do with timing? If hub detects dead port-link, it might
partition the port for some time. ARC detects link down, resets the port.
Now if ARC resets the port more often than HUB's partition-time is, link
never comes up.
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Had the same problem here. needed to flush the arp cache
on the routers to get this to work.
-----Original Message-----
>If you really enjoy Fleetwood Mac its not so bad.
>
>Are all the devices on the same IP subnet?
>
>Can you ping other devices on the same subnets as the servers?
>
>Do both the servers have defined routes back to the chassis.
>
>What is the default gateway of the HiPer ARC or NetServer?
>
>Can you ping the ethernet interface of the HiPer ARC or NetServer and NMC
>when dialing in?
>
>
>
>
>robb@triangle-mls.com on 07/21/98 11:36:16 AM
>
>Please respond to usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
>
>To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
>cc: (bcc: Roderick S Lambes/TMG/CSC)
>Subject: (usr-tc) Problems pinging
>
>
>
>
>Could anyone help us on this problem. When we use our dial up connection
>to
>connect to our lan, we can only ping one of our 2 main servers. We can
>ping
>one server from the other but can only ping one once we dial into either of
>our chassis. We have spent numerous hours on hold with 3COM tech support
>to
>no avail. We haven't even heard a human voice yet.
>Rob Bankoski
>Triangle MLS
>
>
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I am running it on NETServer's and haven't seen any problems yet ...
although some people are reporting they cannot stay online for long before
getting disconnected without reason ..
______________________________________________________
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System Administrator
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-----Original Message-----
>Has anyone on this list had any experience (positive or negative) with
>running the v.90 hiper code on a non-ARC TC? (i.e. Netserver)
>
>I understand it's not "approved", but our customers are really screaming
>for it.
>
>
>Many thanks,
>
>--
>Jesse Sipprell
>Technical Operations Director
>Evolution Communications, Inc.
>
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Subject:(usr-tc) HiPer and Dead Air, the Hair-Pulling stage From: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com> Date: 1998-07-21 11:57:55
Quick Recap:
Bought a HiPer bundle about 2 months ago. Spent weeks with tech support
to see why "list int" showed all modems down/up. Took ARC and DSPs to an
old 45 Amp chassis, problem went away. Waited for new chassis, and
installed it yesterday. Same problem. The T1 lines work fine if I move
them to an old Dual T1 chassis. Have triple-quadruple checked line
settings, as have at least half a dozen people at 3Com. Have set "chassis
awareness" on and off, moved cards, pulled cards, rearranged cards,
rebooted, power-cycled, and kicked.
Two months is too long... What are my options? Can I even return this
thing so late? Why can't anyone troubleshoot this? Blah.
Charles
-Who's thinking "Shouldn't *I* be getting paid something for beta testing
this stuff? Isn't my time money? When's the last time it took more than
two months to get a piece of equipment working?"
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Subject:(usr-tc) Re: radius support From: Ray Kopp <rjkopp@mailbox.syr.edu> Date: 1998-07-21 12:19:11
Rod are you the listowner? If not I, in fact even if you are I take
exception to the inappropriatness of the NT vs Unix debate on the list.
The things I read in today's digest were in my mind constructive.
We run 5 racks and we are contemplating on switching to radius from tacacs
the platform we are going to run it on is very critical and other peoples
experiences are just what I need.
I'm in agreement with you when it just turns into a Unix vs NT or any
platform bashing without anything to back it up. That is useless.
When it is backed up with such things as how a high quality frame for
either improve performance, decrease crashing and other types of factual
compares. I find that useful and will take that into account when we make
a decision.
So just because it isn't important to you, please don't assume it's not
pertinent to any of us!
Thanks,
Ray Kopp
Syracuse University
Computing and Media Services
Network Systems
rjkopp@mailbox.syr.edu
Syracuse, New York 13244
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Re: radius support From: Kevin Benton <s1kevin@tims.net> Date: 1998-07-21 14:21:45
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Ray Kopp wrote:
> So just because it isn't important to you, please don't assume it's not
> pertinent to any of us!
[Qualification - Please put on your humor hat first... soapbox mode on]
Imagine if we started discussing the idea of what snacks went along well
with the hold music on 3Com's support page. It could turn into a
discussion of whether or not chilli really should have meat or beans.
Imagine that we allow it to take up half the discussion bandwidth. People
will stop reading this mailing list because they're seeing a lot of
messages fly by that are not pertinent to what they're looking for. At
that point, the list becomes less valuable because participation drops and
noise filtering becomes more a problem than an occasional bother. While
it's true that food is pertinent to all of us, and sometimes, snacking
while on hold with 3Com is done, the discussion of foods really doesn't
belong in this list. After all, we're professionals, aren't we? Who
needs a food fight this list?
I believe the same is true of Unix vs NT discussions when it becomes which
is the best platform to run under. I think that it's really not an issue
for this group to deal with since there are vast number of both out there
and both should be supported well regardless of how we feel about NT or
Unix.
If we get into the "Under Solaris x.x.x running TCM x.x.x, I have the
following problem" or "Under NT x.x..." and those problems don't appear in
their counterparts, then we have something to discuss, but not because
it's OS1 vs OS2 (no pun intended).
What do we run? 6 NT's, 10 Linux boxes, many Win95's, and one MacOS. Each
serves its own purposes and each does things differently than the other in
different areas. This doesn't make one better than the other, only by
preference, more suitable for certain tasks than the other. Which should
you use? That is a discussion that I feel is beyond the scope of this
list.
[soapbox mode off]
FYI - no I don't own the list.
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) v.90 hiper? From: andy <smitha@mach3ww.com> Date: 1998-07-21 15:23:18
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Jamie Orzechowski wrote:
> I am running it on NETServer's and haven't seen any problems yet ...
> although some people are reporting they cannot stay online for long before
> getting disconnected without reason ..
I'm seeing the same problem with our NetServers and v.90. Random
disconnections with no real reason. The radius logs are reading
"Lost-Carrier" for those who get disconnected randomly. About a week ago,
the frequency of these drops increased to a drop every 5 minutes. I
rebooted the Netserver and reset all the cards. The frequency of the drops
returned to normal, about 2 per hour.
Any idea of what could be causing the problems? I checked for error
seconds on our channelized t1's and see none. I'm running the latest code
on everything.
By the way, does anyone know when the next Netserver code will be out?
On the website it says "NRY" (not released yet) for the 3.1.2 series. Have
any beta testers gotten their hands on it yet?
I hope 3com continues to support, and update the netserver code. I know
a lot of people are angry with 3com, because of problems with their
software. I strongly encourage 3com to continue working on stablizing
their code. The hardware is good, the design seems good, now if we
can just get rid of some bugs! :-)
ps. Testing v.90 hiper....so far, so good...
-
andy
HiPer DSP 1.2.5 code is not for use with the Total Control NETServer CARD.
Please view our note where you downloaded the code. It stated "Includes
v.90. For use with HiPer ARC only". It has little to do with issues with
the HiPer DSP's. The NETServer code needs to be updated to support the
HiPer DSP's with v.90. Once we have thoroughly tested and released
NETServer 3.8.x most of your HiPer DSP to NETServer issues will go away.
andy <smitha@mach3ww.com> on 07/21/98 01:23:18 PM
Please respond to usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
cc: (Adrian Salas/PA/3Com)
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Jamie Orzechowski wrote:
> I am running it on NETServer's and haven't seen any problems yet ...
> although some people are reporting they cannot stay online for long
before
> getting disconnected without reason ..
I'm seeing the same problem with our NetServers and v.90. Random
disconnections with no real reason. The radius logs are reading
"Lost-Carrier" for those who get disconnected randomly. About a week ago,
the frequency of these drops increased to a drop every 5 minutes. I
rebooted the Netserver and reset all the cards. The frequency of the drops
returned to normal, about 2 per hour.
Any idea of what could be causing the problems? I checked for error
seconds on our channelized t1's and see none. I'm running the latest code
on everything.
By the way, does anyone know when the next Netserver code will be out?
On the website it says "NRY" (not released yet) for the 3.1.2 series. Have
any beta testers gotten their hands on it yet?
I hope 3com continues to support, and update the netserver code. I know
a lot of people are angry with 3com, because of problems with their
software. I strongly encourage 3com to continue working on stablizing
their code. The hardware is good, the design seems good, now if we
can just get rid of some bugs! :-)
ps. Testing v.90 hiper....so far, so good...
-
andy
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Total Control & v.90 From: adrian_salas@3com.com Date: 1998-07-21 16:04:50
The NMC does not require 16 MB of DRAM for v.90 on quads. If you do wish
to upgrade anyway you should have 8 MB of flash as well.
It's 72 pin none edo, non-parity, 70 NS ram. The flash will probably have
to special ordered.
"Russ Miescke" <russm@powerweb.net> on 07/19/98 08:08:59 PM
Please respond to usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
cc: (Adrian Salas/PA/3Com)
We have a Total Control unit with 48 digital & analog/digital quad modems.
Our NMC has only 4 meg of RAM. Does the v.90 code require 16? We have
upgraded the Netserver to 16, but I do not see anything on the NMC. If 16
is required, is it just 72 pin non-parity simms?
Russ Miescke
Power Web Connect
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I was on 3com's beta server and I noticed that there is a BUG in the HiPER
DSP code 1.2.5 which says disconnections for no reason. and it's Priority 1
to be fixed in the next version ... thanks 3com ... I would think that is a
fairly serious bug and wouldn;t release code when that broken ...
______________________________________________________
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System Administrator
The Brockville Recorder and Times
RipNET Internet Services division
31 Broad Street
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-----Original Message-----
>On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Jamie Orzechowski wrote:
>
>> I am running it on NETServer's and haven't seen any problems yet ...
>> although some people are reporting they cannot stay online for long
before
>> getting disconnected without reason ..
>
>I'm seeing the same problem with our NetServers and v.90. Random
>disconnections with no real reason. The radius logs are reading
>"Lost-Carrier" for those who get disconnected randomly. About a week ago,
>the frequency of these drops increased to a drop every 5 minutes. I
>rebooted the Netserver and reset all the cards. The frequency of the drops
>returned to normal, about 2 per hour.
>
>Any idea of what could be causing the problems? I checked for error
>seconds on our channelized t1's and see none. I'm running the latest code
>on everything.
>
>By the way, does anyone know when the next Netserver code will be out?
>On the website it says "NRY" (not released yet) for the 3.1.2 series. Have
>any beta testers gotten their hands on it yet?
>
>I hope 3com continues to support, and update the netserver code. I know
>a lot of people are angry with 3com, because of problems with their
>software. I strongly encourage 3com to continue working on stablizing
>their code. The hardware is good, the design seems good, now if we
>can just get rid of some bugs! :-)
>
>ps. Testing v.90 hiper....so far, so good...
>
>-
> andy
>
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Syslog utility for NT From: Bogdan Pelinescu <bpelin@itcnet.ro> Date: 1998-07-21 17:20:11
> Where can I find a syslog utility for nt to grap the stuff from a netserver 16?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
In my never ending searches for utilities that emulate Unix services
on NT, I've encountered two versions of Syslog daemons:
CLS-Syslogdaemon and SL4NT.
SL4NT v0.3 - 05/06/96 is Freeware.
SL4NT is Copyright (c) 1996 Franz Krainer. All Rights Reserved.
You can find it on ftp.cdrom.com, or I can email it to you because
it's only 32k.
CLS is also freeware but it's more complicated, as it works on 3.11,
95 and NT. Generally it does the same thing as SL4NT, but it's bigger
(257K). Search on ftp.cdrom.com for this too.
I'm using SL4NT and it works just fine.
Contact me if you need extra help with this.
Bogdan
Bogdan Pelinescu <bpelin@itcnet.ro> |
R&D Engineer | Tel: (401) 232 2770
Institute for Computers |
Networks & Communications Dept. | Fax: (401) 230 7845
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On Tue, 21 Jul 1998 Adrian_Salas@3com.com wrote:
> HiPer DSP 1.2.5 code is not for use with the Total Control NETServer CARD.
> Please view our note where you downloaded the code.
I saw the note. I'm getting the random disconnects using the NetServer
Card (3.7.24) with the v.90 quad modem cards (5.10.9). Not Hiper DSP. I
was also informed that on the beta server? there is a listing of a bug
with similar symptoms for the hiperdsp (1.2.5). I don't go to the beta
site, so I haven't checked it out myself.
-
andy
Subject:(usr-tc) Total Control Chassis for all? From: Andres Kroonmaa <andre@ml.ee> Date: 1998-07-21 18:51:38
Hi,
General question to 3com guys.
Looking at description of Affinity DSL chassis and cards,
Cable Access solution chassis, Hiper DSP/ARC, Quad/Netserver,
Wireless, EdgePro, etc. I get impression that all these
cards can be used in the same chassis, and although nowhere
mentioned, I can't see any reason why not at the same time
in a mixed configuration.
So, here's a question - can all those TC solutions be used
in the same chassis at the same time?
This would really give a reason to put Hiper DSP/ARC
chassis to even such locations that would never need full
chassis of DSP cards. Instead, you could use the same
box to terminate DSL, cable and any future services.
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) HiPer & Dead Air - Resolution? From: Tatai SV Krishnan <tkrishna@bubba.ae.usr.com> Date: 1998-07-22 09:04:42
The nmc communicates with the Hiper arc and the HDM using chassis
awarness. The information the NMC sends is as follows:
It communicates with each card finds out the information and tells the
hiper arc or the netserver who the cards and and what type of cards they
are and if they are alive or dead. If the NMC sense the cards to be bad
or not active it is capable of telling the HiPer arc or any gateway ard
to remove the card from teh packet bus.
One other thing the NMC does is that it also checks for the clock on the
chassis. If the chassis back plane clock fail then the NMC will take over.
Now removing the NMC if the hiper arc sees every card and everything is
fine, then take a look at the HiPer arc and see what it says for this comand
show nmc
if it shows that the nmc chassis awarness is enabled, then disable nmc
chassis awarens, set every card in the chassis as a static configuration
and then put the nmc back and see if the problem returns. If it does you
have a bad NMC card. If it does not then there is something wrong with
the chassis awarness that is causing the NMC to tell the HIPer arc thto
disable the cards.
krish
\ T.S.V. Krishnan \
\ Network System Engineer \ ( : - : )
\ 3Com ............ \
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On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is probably annoying by now, but it will make it to the archives...
>
> Problem with all HDMs showing "down/up" in a "list int". Problem went
> away in an old 45A chassis, still occurred with the replacement chassis.
> On a whim, I booted with the NMC removed today, and guess what? "list
> int" showed up/up, and it took it's first call!!! Reinserting the NMC
> brought all interfaces back to "down/up". Removing NMC and rebooting was
> the only way to get "up/up" again. Inserting an NMC from a random non-ARC
> chassis did not cause HDMs to go to "down/up".
>
> So my question is, what does the NMC do that prevents the ARC from seeing
> the HDMs properly? Is it a bad card or is there some weird
> misconfiguration that everyone missed?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charles
>
> =-----------------= =
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> | INCH System Administration Team (212)243-5200 |
> | spork@inch.com access@inch.com |
> = =----------------=
>
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On Tue, 21 Jul 1998 Adrian_Salas@3com.com wrote:
> HiPer DSP 1.2.5 code is not for use with the Total Control NETServer CARD.
> Please view our note where you downloaded the code. It stated "Includes
> v.90. For use with HiPer ARC only". It has little to do with issues with
> the HiPer DSP's. The NETServer code needs to be updated to support the
> HiPer DSP's with v.90. Once we have thoroughly tested and released
> NETServer 3.8.x most of your HiPer DSP to NETServer issues will go away.
ok when will this code upgrade be done?
John Timon:
Network Administrator
Execulink Internet Services
timon@execulink.com
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
Subject:(usr-tc) Farallon Netopia From: Bob Fager <rdfager@cube.ice.net> Date: 1998-07-22 12:59:28
We have several customers who are attempting to connect to our total
control chassis with Farallon Netopias. They are having problems bonding
the second channel. The first channel comes up fine but we never see any
sign of the second channel trying to be authenticated by the radius
server. The second channel times out on the Netopia and it disconnects.
We have a netserver and are using Merit radius 3.5.6. Has anyone else
seen this or have any ideas to help us?
Thanks,
Bob
If this is a Hiper DSP then load the V.90 code, it seems to fix the seconds
channel bonding and Auth failure issues.
-Frank
-----Original Message-----
Cc: thughes@ice.net <thughes@ice.net>
>We have several customers who are attempting to connect to our total
>control chassis with Farallon Netopias. They are having problems bonding
>the second channel. The first channel comes up fine but we never see any
>sign of the second channel trying to be authenticated by the radius
>server. The second channel times out on the Netopia and it disconnects.
>We have a netserver and are using Merit radius 3.5.6. Has anyone else
>seen this or have any ideas to help us?
>
>Thanks,
>Bob
>
>
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Subject:(usr-tc) ARC IP pool and PPP route broadcast From: Colin_McFadyen <colinmcfadyen@pigeon.carleton.ca> Date: 1998-07-22 15:31:56
Hi all.
I just received a HiPer ARC bundle and I am having a little trouble
configuring it.
DSP 1.2.5
ARC 4.0.30
NMC 5.5.2
The modems answer and users can telnet via text mode with no problem.
PPP does not negotiate properly because the ARC is not handing out IP
addresses. I configured an IP pool...
name usrtc2-ppp-pool
begin 134.117.237.2
netmask 255.255.255.0
size 60
state public
route aggregate
I figured that since the state was PUBLIC, that PPP users would be assigned
an address from that pool. Did I miss anything?
Also, I connected using a RADIUS assigned IP address and PPP negotiated just
fine. Problem here was that the ARC did not broadcast the route.
Any help would br greatly appreciated.
Colin McFadyen
Carleton University Computing and Communications Services
(613) 520-2600 x3721 fax: (613) 520-4448
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) HiPer & Dead Air - Resolution? From: Tatai SV Krishnan <tkrishna@bubba.ae.usr.com> Date: 1998-07-22 18:58:16
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>
> On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Tatai SV Krishnan wrote:
>
> > Now removing the NMC if the hiper arc sees every card and everything is
> > fine, then take a look at the HiPer arc and see what it says for this comand
> >
> > show nmc
>
> It was enabled... We'd turned this on and off in past troubleshooting
> after setting the cards up as static (set chas slot 14 etc..).
>
> >
> > if it shows that the nmc chassis awarness is enabled, then disable nmc
> > chassis awarens, set every card in the chassis as a static configuration
> > and then put the nmc back and see if the problem returns. If it does you
> > have a bad NMC card. If it does not then there is something wrong with
> > the chassis awarness that is causing the NMC to tell the HIPer arc thto
> > disable the cards.
>
> I disable nmc chassis awareness again, saved all after setting the static
> config, and got the same result. Since this is a new chassis, it has to
> be the NMC, right? Is this a typical failure mode for the NMC? What
> results would you see in a Netserver/quad setup?
>
OK, let me understand - You were sent a new chassis, and this new chassis
does not have a NMC. You remove the NMC everything is fine, you put it
in even with chassis awarness disabled you run into problems. That
clearly means that the NMC has a problem. You want to send the NMC back
to 3com for hardware analysis and get a new NMC in its place. The new
NMC should not have this problem. The bad NMC that you have currently
should be able to reproduced this problem with that NMC on any chassis.
Yes you will run into AIP problem using this NMC with netserver.
krish
> Thanks,
>
> Charles
>
> > krish
> >
> > -----------------------------------------
> > \ T.S.V. Krishnan \
> > \ Network System Engineer \ ( : - : )
> > \ 3Com ............ \
> > ----------------------------------------------/
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> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------/
> >
> > On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > This is probably annoying by now, but it will make it to the archives...
> > >
> > > Problem with all HDMs showing "down/up" in a "list int". Problem went
> > > away in an old 45A chassis, still occurred with the replacement chassis.
> > > On a whim, I booted with the NMC removed today, and guess what? "list
> > > int" showed up/up, and it took it's first call!!! Reinserting the NMC
> > > brought all interfaces back to "down/up". Removing NMC and rebooting was
> > > the only way to get "up/up" again. Inserting an NMC from a random non-ARC
> > > chassis did not cause HDMs to go to "down/up".
> > >
> > > So my question is, what does the NMC do that prevents the ARC from seeing
> > > the HDMs properly? Is it a bad card or is there some weird
> > > misconfiguration that everyone missed?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Charles
> > >
> > > =-----------------= =
> > > | Charles Sprickman Internet Channel |
> > > | INCH System Administration Team (212)243-5200 |
> > > | spork@inch.com access@inch.com |
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Subject:(usr-tc) HiPer & Dead Air - Resolution? From: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com> Date: 1998-07-22 20:04:53
Hi,
This is probably annoying by now, but it will make it to the archives...
Problem with all HDMs showing "down/up" in a "list int". Problem went
away in an old 45A chassis, still occurred with the replacement chassis.
On a whim, I booted with the NMC removed today, and guess what? "list
int" showed up/up, and it took it's first call!!! Reinserting the NMC
brought all interfaces back to "down/up". Removing NMC and rebooting was
the only way to get "up/up" again. Inserting an NMC from a random non-ARC
chassis did not cause HDMs to go to "down/up".
So my question is, what does the NMC do that prevents the ARC from seeing
the HDMs properly? Is it a bad card or is there some weird
misconfiguration that everyone missed?
Thanks,
Charles
=-----------------= =
| Charles Sprickman Internet Channel |
| INCH System Administration Team (212)243-5200 |
| spork@inch.com access@inch.com |
= =----------------=
Subject:(usr-tc) MP8I in Australia From: Jason Lambert <jlambert@pla.net.au> Date: 1998-07-23 02:31:07
Has anybody setup a MP8i in Australia using Telstras OnRamp service
(Supposedly the same as ETSI). We are having lots of problems with garbage
after connection. We think this is due to some type of speed missmatch in
the serial interface but locking the serial port rate has not helped. Would
anybody be willing to share their initialisation string with us?
Thanks
Jason
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) HiPer & Dead Air - Resolution? From: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com> Date: 1998-07-23 02:41:38
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Tatai SV Krishnan wrote:
> Now removing the NMC if the hiper arc sees every card and everything is
> fine, then take a look at the HiPer arc and see what it says for this comand
>
> show nmc
It was enabled... We'd turned this on and off in past troubleshooting
after setting the cards up as static (set chas slot 14 etc..).
>
> if it shows that the nmc chassis awarness is enabled, then disable nmc
> chassis awarens, set every card in the chassis as a static configuration
> and then put the nmc back and see if the problem returns. If it does you
> have a bad NMC card. If it does not then there is something wrong with
> the chassis awarness that is causing the NMC to tell the HIPer arc thto
> disable the cards.
I disable nmc chassis awareness again, saved all after setting the static
config, and got the same result. Since this is a new chassis, it has to
be the NMC, right? Is this a typical failure mode for the NMC? What
results would you see in a Netserver/quad setup?
Thanks,
Charles
> krish
>
> -----------------------------------------
> \ T.S.V. Krishnan \
> \ Network System Engineer \ ( : - : )
> \ 3Com ............ \
> ----------------------------------------------/
> tkrishna@bubba.ae.usr.com
> ----------------------------/ http://interproc.ae.usr.com ----/
> The Yadda Yadda Search - for simple anwers - http://interproc.ae.usr.com/tkb.html
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------\
> Any Sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable for a feature.
> - Rick Kulawiec
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------/
>
> On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is probably annoying by now, but it will make it to the archives...
> >
> > Problem with all HDMs showing "down/up" in a "list int". Problem went
> > away in an old 45A chassis, still occurred with the replacement chassis.
> > On a whim, I booted with the NMC removed today, and guess what? "list
> > int" showed up/up, and it took it's first call!!! Reinserting the NMC
> > brought all interfaces back to "down/up". Removing NMC and rebooting was
> > the only way to get "up/up" again. Inserting an NMC from a random non-ARC
> > chassis did not cause HDMs to go to "down/up".
> >
> > So my question is, what does the NMC do that prevents the ARC from seeing
> > the HDMs properly? Is it a bad card or is there some weird
> > misconfiguration that everyone missed?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Charles
> >
> > =-----------------= =
> > | Charles Sprickman Internet Channel |
> > | INCH System Administration Team (212)243-5200 |
> > | spork@inch.com access@inch.com |
> > = =----------------=
> >
> >
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) HiPer & Dead Air - Resolution? From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-23 07:51:17
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is probably annoying by now, but it will make it to the archives...
>
> Problem with all HDMs showing "down/up" in a "list int". Problem went
> away in an old 45A chassis, still occurred with the replacement chassis.
> On a whim, I booted with the NMC removed today, and guess what? "list
> int" showed up/up, and it took it's first call!!! Reinserting the NMC
> brought all interfaces back to "down/up". Removing NMC and rebooting was
> the only way to get "up/up" again. Inserting an NMC from a random non-ARC
> chassis did not cause HDMs to go to "down/up".
>
> So my question is, what does the NMC do that prevents the ARC from seeing
> the HDMs properly? Is it a bad card or is there some weird
> misconfiguration that everyone missed?
Your relying on NMC discovery to setup your interfaces. don't.
disable nmc CHASSIS_AWARENESS
then setup all your cards manually
set chassis slot 1 card_type hdm_24 owner yes ports 23 type static
Brian
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charles
>
> =-----------------= =
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On the 486 PRI/T1 card there use to be feature `CTRL D` that
displayed a menu of debug options.
Does the HiperDSP card have this "debug menu" or something
like this?
Thanks.
Henry
Subject:(usr-tc) Netserver card used for SMURF attack? From: John Powell <john@jetcity.com> Date: 1998-07-23 11:21:35
It looks like one of our Netserver cards was used as an intermediary in a
SMURF attack. It was suggested that we turn off "directed-broadcasts" on
this router (the Netserver). How is this done?
Thanks!
John
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) ARC IP pool and PPP route broadcast From: Pete Ashdown <pashdown@xmission.com> Date: 1998-07-23 12:52:11
Colin_McFadyen said once upon a time:
>I figured that since the state was PUBLIC, that PPP users would be assigned
>an address from that pool. Did I miss anything?
>
>Also, I connected using a RADIUS assigned IP address and PPP negotiated just
>fine. Problem here was that the ARC did not broadcast the route.
What IP address is being assigned when the RADIUS server doesn't send an
address? If it isn't from you pool, what is it?
How do you have your routing set up? Do a "show network ip".
Subject:(usr-tc) Support for "Shotgun" technology? From: Dave Martin <dpm@netcetera.com> Date: 1998-07-23 13:14:55
Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I couldn't find anything on the 3Com web site.
Are there any versions of the NetServer and/or HyperArc software that
support Diamon/Supra's "Shotgun" protocol?
The Diamond web site says:
"Shotgun technology is simple for ISPs to implement at the central site
because ot fully supports both the MP+ and MLPPP protocols found on the
majority of central site equipment. Successful tests of Shotgun have
already been completed on Ascend, Cisco, 3Com and Livingston equipment."
^^^^
Our TCS boxes use T1 rather than PRI, if that makes a difference...
Dave Martin Netcetera, Inc. dpm@netcetera.com
"Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers"
Subject:RE: (usr-tc) ARC IP pool and PPP route broadcast From: Colin_McFadyen <colinmcfadyen@pigeon.carleton.ca> Date: 1998-07-23 15:12:57
No address is assigned. When the PPP session starts using a radius address,
the 'PPP session....' message is displayed. Without a radius address, no
PPP message is shown. The logfile shows the address as 0.0.0.0.
HiPer>> sh network ip
SHOW IP NETWORK ip SETTINGS:
Interface: eth:1
Network Address: 134.117.xxx.xxx/B
Frame Type: ETHERNET_II
Status: ENABLED
Reconfigure Needed: FALSE
Mask: 255.255.0.0
Station: 134.117.xxx.xxx
Broadcast Algorithm: IETF
Max Reassembly Size: 3464
IP Routing Protocol: NONE
IP RIP Routing Policies:
SEND_ROUTES
IP RIP Authentication Key:
HiPer>>
Colin McFadyen
Carleton University Computing and Communications Services
(613) 520-2600 x3721 fax: (613) 520-4448
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Ashdown [SMTP:pashdown@xmission.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 23, 1998 2:52 PM
> To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> Subject: Re: (usr-tc) ARC IP pool and PPP route broadcast
>
> Colin_McFadyen said once upon a time:
>
> >I figured that since the state was PUBLIC, that PPP users would be
> assigned
> >an address from that pool. Did I miss anything?
> >
> >Also, I connected using a RADIUS assigned IP address and PPP negotiated
> just
> >fine. Problem here was that the ARC did not broadcast the route.
>
> What IP address is being assigned when the RADIUS server doesn't send an
> address? If it isn't from you pool, what is it?
>
> How do you have your routing set up? Do a "show network ip".
>
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Subject:Re:(usr-tc) Support for "Shotgun" technology? From: jcusmano@westcon.com Date: 1998-07-23 16:51:26
I have been on hold with 3Com Tech Support for around 2 hours for info on t=
he
Diamon Shotgun=2E When I find out more info, I'll send it to all of you unless
someone else can help us out?
____________________Reply Separator____________________
Author: MIME:dpm@netcetera=2Ecom
Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I couldn't find anything on the 3Com web site=2E
Are there any versions of the NetServer and/or HyperArc software that
support Diamon/Supra's "Shotgun" protocol?
The Diamond web site says:
"Shotgun technology is simple for ISPs to implement at the central site
because ot fully supports both the MP+ and MLPPP protocols found on the
majority of central site equipment=2E Successful tests of Shotgun have
already been completed on Ascend, Cisco, 3Com and Livingston equipment=2E"
^^^^
Our TCS boxes use T1 rather than PRI, if that makes a difference=2E=2E=2E
Dave Martin Netcetera, Inc=2E dpm@netcetera=2Ecom
"Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers"
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Netserver card used for SMURF attack? From: Mark R. Lindsey <mark@vielle.datasys.net> Date: 1998-07-23 17:25:44
: It looks like one of our Netserver cards was used as an intermediary in a
: SMURF attack. It was suggested that we turn off "directed-broadcasts" on
: this router (the Netserver). How is this done?
I've never seen that feature implemented directly as such on the Netserver.
If your border router knows about internal subnets, then you might be able
to handle it there; that's more typical.
If you have a non-modular Cisco with one ethernet port, you can probably
accomplish this by logging into the router, enabling the priviledged
EXEC mode (with `enable'), then doing something like this:
configure terminal ! Go into config mode
interface ethernet 0 ! Talk about the first enet interface
no ip directed-broadcast ! Disable directed broadcasts on eth 0
exit ! Exit the configure mode
For more information about Smurf and the similar attack, Fraggle, see
http://www.quadrunner.com/~chuegen/smurf.cgi
ahhh.. what a long day. I just upgraded to TCS 3.1.1
hiperarc v. 4.0.29... now all of a sudden none of my
radius routing is working.. Here is a sample of my radius
file;
ppunk Password ="UNIX"
Framed-Address = 208.6.184.41,
Framed-Netmask = 255.255.255.248,
arrghhh. no change to anything but updating the code. I
even tried to add;
Framed-Route = "208.6.184.40/32 208.6.184.41 1"
to no avail.
anyone have any clues?????
I can't even downgrade to the old code since I don't have it,
and have never been able to get the appropriate permissions
to USRs totalservice page.
HELP!
Scott
Ahhh. It looks as though for some reason unknown to me it
is not sending the RIP packets out when we are using subnets.
If I manually add a /h route however it get sent out via RIP.
anyone? anyone?
I do have that RIP Policy "SEND_SUBNETS" enabled too..
Scott
> ahhh.. what a long day. I just upgraded to TCS 3.1.1
> hiperarc v. 4.0.29... now all of a sudden none of my
> radius routing is working.. Here is a sample of my radius
> file;
>
> ppunk Password ="UNIX"
> Framed-Address = 208.6.184.41,
> Framed-Netmask = 255.255.255.248,
>
> arrghhh. no change to anything but updating the code. I
> even tried to add;
>
> Framed-Route = "208.6.184.40/32 208.6.184.41 1"
>
> to no avail.
>
> anyone have any clues?????
>
> I can't even downgrade to the old code since I don't have it,
> and have never been able to get the appropriate permissions
> to USRs totalservice page.
>
> HELP!
>
> Scott
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Scott Kreuser wrote:
> ahhh.. what a long day. I just upgraded to TCS 3.1.1
> hiperarc v. 4.0.29... now all of a sudden none of my
> radius routing is working.. Here is a sample of my radius
> file;
>
> ppunk Password ="UNIX"
> Framed-Address = 208.6.184.41,
> Framed-Netmask = 255.255.255.248,
>
> arrghhh. no change to anything but updating the code. I
> even tried to add;
>
> Framed-Route = "208.6.184.40/32 208.6.184.41 1"
>
> to no avail.
>
> anyone have any clues?????
>
> I can't even downgrade to the old code since I don't have it,
> and have never been able to get the appropriate permissions
> to USRs totalservice page.
>
> HELP!
radius debug, radius logfile would help.
check the secret's to make sure they are correct.
brian
>
> Scott
>
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Set the Framed-Netmask to 255.255.255.255
Brian wrote:
>
> On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Scott Kreuser wrote:
>
> > ahhh.. what a long day. I just upgraded to TCS 3.1.1
> > hiperarc v. 4.0.29... now all of a sudden none of my
> > radius routing is working.. Here is a sample of my radius
> > file;
> >
> > ppunk Password ="UNIX"
> > Framed-Address = 208.6.184.41,
> > Framed-Netmask = 255.255.255.248,
> >
> > arrghhh. no change to anything but updating the code. I
> > even tried to add;
> >
> > Framed-Route = "208.6.184.40/32 208.6.184.41 1"
> >
> > to no avail.
> >
> > anyone have any clues?????
> >
> > I can't even downgrade to the old code since I don't have it,
> > and have never been able to get the appropriate permissions
> > to USRs totalservice page.
> >
> > HELP!
>
> radius debug, radius logfile would help.
>
> check the secret's to make sure they are correct.
>
> brian
>
> >
> > Scott
> >
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How can I disable modems on DSP (best using ARC commands) for
receive connections, without force disconnections.
I mean, I want to free up one board to make a code upgrade but
want to wait the customers to disconnect and then disable the port until
all ports are free.
- Marcelo
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Need help with T-1/Netserver/Quad modems From: Jim Logan <jim@top.net> Date: 1998-07-24 13:36:43
Hmm, Tried calling out to Xmissions today and said it was a state Holiday,
anyway, I've also got a USR TC Problem. We have a unit that had Dual Pri
Card that went 'out of service' (TCM won't even see it any longer, nor will
a PC Hooked up to the RS232 Port). So I put in some spare T1 and T1 Net
Card that I had laying around. To make a long story shorter, I switched
all the Modem Cards to Apprpriate T1tdm settings, and can 'connect' all the
modems so they show up available. Why then when I'm looking at the (with
the PC on the RS232) show as such? How do I get them to not say "call
ignore" Busy Out?? (I have an Ascend Unit here with DSS service, so I'm
using Span 2 of that for testing with this TC Unit)
T1 Span 1 DSO/Modem Status
DSO Status Modem Status Slot/Chan
1 Call-Ignore Busy-Out 2/1
2 Call-Ignore Busy-Out 2/2
3 Call-Ignore Busy-Out 2/3
etc, thru all 1st 24 Channels of T1 Span 1
Any Ideas? Also something I've been curious about (where to set). Ascend
units 'require' on DSS (not required on Pri) that the phone number be
entered for answering purpose on every channel. Is this related to above
mentioned problem, something to do with DNIS Tables? or not required at all
for a T1 Equiped TC Unit?
Thanks for comments or suggestions
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Once upon a time Brian shaped the electrons to say...
>Would a DEFAULT entry of the following allow a user to set there own IP
>address (vs. being forced to take what the NAS assigns you)
>Framed-Protocol = "PPP",
>Framed-Netmask = "255.255.255.255",
>able to pick any ip they want. I had been using this for sometime, and
>just noticed my netmask. Shouldn't it be 255.255.255.254?
Hell no. Your netmask is correct. You're thinking of
Framed-Address = 255.255.255.254 - which means "Assign one from the pool."
-MZ
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Need help with T-1/Netserver/Quad modems From: Jim Logan <jim@top.net> Date: 1998-07-24 14:48:55
Another question to anyone that knows - Is the Dual Pri NIC Card the same
as the Dual T1 Nic? Or do the NAC's have to be move with Appropriate NIC's
when moving them from one TC Unit to another?
If they aren't the same, how can I tell if my Failure of the TCM to
recognize the card in Slot 1 is related to the NIC or NAC Card?
(I know - you all have Hiper Units - I'll be there one of these days!)
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Subject:(usr-tc) RADIUS Error From: Dave Berzins <berzins@nucleus.com> Date: 1998-07-24 14:59:13
I've started to get a weird error in my extended RADIUS log files for our
TC chassis. Does anyone know what a terminate code 9 is?
ie:
( 49) Acct-Terminate-Cause = 9 NAS-Error
Dave...
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Subject:(usr-tc) RADIUS default user From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-24 15:03:45
Would a DEFAULT entry of the following allow a user to set there own IP
address (vs. being forced to take what the NAS assigns you)
User-Service-Type = "Framed-User",
Framed-Protocol = "PPP",
Framed-Netmask = "255.255.255.255",
Framed-MTU = "1500",
Port-Limit = "2",
Framed-Compression = "Van-Jacobson-TCP-IP"
I want the user to be forced an IP from the NAS (dynamic) and not to be
able to pick any ip they want. I had been using this for sometime, and
just noticed my netmask. Shouldn't it be 255.255.255.254?
Brian
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Need help with T-1/Netserver/Quad modems From: Jim Logan <jim@top.net> Date: 1998-07-24 17:27:13
At 02:48 PM 7/24/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>
> Another question to anyone that knows - Is the Dual Pri NIC Card the same
>as the Dual T1 Nic? Or do the NAC's have to be move with Appropriate NIC's
>when moving them from one TC Unit to another?
>
> If they aren't the same, how can I tell if my Failure of the TCM to
>recognize the card in Slot 1 is related to the NIC or NAC Card?
>
> (I know - you all have Hiper Units - I'll be there one of these days!)
>
I think I answered this myself - Since the Part Number for the NIC's,
regardless if you use Dual PRI or Dual T-1 card NAC's is the same, and I
can access a Dual T-1 Card in Slot 1, obviously the NIC card is fine. Also
didn't know that the Dual PRI Card is warranty'd for 2 years, so USR/3Com
now has a box headed their direction. Still would like to know the answer
to my Dual T-1 Configuration problem, and all the DSO Setting show normal,
and with Modems all showing connected, the settings (and calls to unit)
using the RS232 side of things show all DS0 as "call-ignore" and modems
"call-busy".
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Is there a way to disable the mppp feature on the netserver card? Is
there a radius attribute to allow it for certain users or connections,
that is, ISDN vs analog?
Thanks in advance.
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After de upgrade of DSP code, I got the following error:
SCB Country Code Error
Country code invalid, please program
What must be done to correct it?
- Marcelo
Subject:(usr-tc) MLPPP From: Walt Gnann <wgnann@islc.net> Date: 1998-07-24 18:29:31
Just a quick question on MLPPP. We can successfully connect and maintain a
MLPPP connection (analog) if the two connections are on the same chasis. It
will not work if the connections are on separate chasis. Can you have a
MLPPP connection across chasis? How?
Thanks
Walt
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Are you using NETServer or HiPer aRC.
HiPer arc this feature is supported in 4.1 - which currently is in beta
for info on NETServer do a serarch on http://interproc.ae.usr.com
search for mpip
krish
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On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Walt Gnann wrote:
> Just a quick question on MLPPP. We can successfully connect and maintain a
> MLPPP connection (analog) if the two connections are on the same chasis. It
> will not work if the connections are on separate chasis. Can you have a
> MLPPP connection across chasis? How?
>
> Thanks
>
> Walt
> -----------------------------------------------------
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> 843.770.1000
> 843.770.1002 (fax)
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) RADIUS default user From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-24 20:30:30
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, MegaZone wrote:
> Once upon a time Brian shaped the electrons to say...
> >Would a DEFAULT entry of the following allow a user to set there own IP
> >address (vs. being forced to take what the NAS assigns you)
> >Framed-Protocol = "PPP",
> >Framed-Netmask = "255.255.255.255",
> >able to pick any ip they want. I had been using this for sometime, and
> >just noticed my netmask. Shouldn't it be 255.255.255.254?
>
> Hell no. Your netmask is correct. You're thinking of
> Framed-Address = 255.255.255.254 - which means "Assign one from the pool."
Your right :) so I just need to make sure that the default entry has
something like:
Framed-Address = "255.255.255.254",
Framed-Netmask = "255.255.255.255"
thanks
>
> -MZ
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Subject:(usr-tc) HiperDSP Modem 12 problem From: Robert Adams <radams@siscom.net> Date: 1998-07-24 21:51:02
Everyone,
On one of our HiPerDSP's modem 12 will answer, but with a wable to the
tone.. which keeps people from connecting. We have went through every
setting and this modem is identical to all the other 23... Is there a way to
turn 12 off and replace it w/ 24 (since we have PRI) ? Has anyone else had
a "bad" modem in one of these?
-Jason
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On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Jason W wrote:
> I guess since we are all on this discussion I can ask
> a quick question. We are using both HiPer and Netserver
> chassis, and MPPP does not work in the Netserver
> chassis. We have configured Radius to allow multiple
On the NETServer both Multi-link PPP and MPIP ( multilink ppp ovr ip )
does work. On the NETServer there is only one switch for MPPP that is
set mp on.
krish
> logins, and I have set MP on in the netserver, still no go.
> Users will connect with the first analog modem and the
> second will not connect. The HiPer arc works fine. Are
> there any other variables to look at on the Netserver?
>
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tatai SV Krishnan <tkrishna@bubba.ae.usr.com>
> To: Walt Gnann <wgnann@islc.net>
> Cc: TC List <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com>
> Date: Saturday, July 25, 1998 7:45 AM
> Subject: Re: (usr-tc) MLPPP
>
>
> >Are you using NETServer or HiPer aRC.
> >
> >HiPer arc this feature is supported in 4.1 - which currently is in beta
> >for info on NETServer do a serarch on http://interproc.ae.usr.com
> >
> >search for mpip
> >
> >krish
> >
> >-----------------------------------------
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> > \ Network System Engineer \ ( : - : )
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> >
> >On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Walt Gnann wrote:
> >
> >> Just a quick question on MLPPP. We can successfully connect and maintain
> a
> >> MLPPP connection (analog) if the two connections are on the same chasis.
> It
> >> will not work if the connections are on separate chasis. Can you have a
> >> MLPPP connection across chasis? How?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Walt
> >> -----------------------------------------------------
> >> Walter N. Gnann
> >> ISLC, Manager
> >> 843.770.1000
> >> 843.770.1002 (fax)
> >> wgnann@islc.net
> >> http://www.islc.net
> >> http://www.beaufortcomputerclub.org
> >> -----------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) USR MLPPP with Linux From: Tatai SV Krishnan <tkrishna@bubba.ae.usr.com> Date: 1998-07-25 00:38:18
On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Mark R. Lindsey wrote:
> Does USR's MLPPP implementation work with Linux' serial load balancing?
>
>
Linux Serial load balancing is load balancing based on some high water
mark over serial lines. In NETserver as well as the HiPer arc, when you
start ppp two variable are taken into consideration for MLPPP. The first
one is the username and the second one is multilink end point id. So to
answer your question - yes If the second call is made and if it has the
same username and if the multilink end point id match then you will have
a MLPPP connections.
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Subject:(usr-tc) USR MP/8 to PM25 Cables needed From: Jim Scott <scott@seanet.com> Date: 1998-07-25 00:39:13
Does anyone have the cables that will go from a PM25 to the USR MP/8's with
RJ45 connectors? I need to get two sets of them as soon as yesterday :)
Jim
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) MLPPP From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com> Date: 1998-07-25 08:40:50
Thus spake Walt Gnann
>Just a quick question on MLPPP. We can successfully connect and maintain a
>MLPPP connection (analog) if the two connections are on the same chasis. It
>will not work if the connections are on separate chasis. Can you have a
>MLPPP connection across chasis? How?
On, the netservers, yes, on the HARC's, not yet. You need to use MPIP
to control the bundling of channels between different systems/chassis'.
It mostly works anyway...not the most reliable protocol I've seen.
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Subject:(usr-tc) USR MLPPP with Linux From: Mark R. Lindsey <mark@vielle.datasys.net> Date: 1998-07-25 11:46:03
Does USR's MLPPP implementation work with Linux' serial load balancing?
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) MLPPP From: Jason W <jwatkins@iland.net> Date: 1998-07-25 12:31:50
I guess since we are all on this discussion I can ask
a quick question. We are using both HiPer and Netserver
chassis, and MPPP does not work in the Netserver
chassis. We have configured Radius to allow multiple
logins, and I have set MP on in the netserver, still no go.
Users will connect with the first analog modem and the
second will not connect. The HiPer arc works fine. Are
there any other variables to look at on the Netserver?
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Cc: TC List <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com>
>Are you using NETServer or HiPer aRC.
>
>HiPer arc this feature is supported in 4.1 - which currently is in beta
>for info on NETServer do a serarch on http://interproc.ae.usr.com
>
>search for mpip
>
>krish
>
>-----------------------------------------
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> \ Network System Engineer \ ( : - : )
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>
>On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Walt Gnann wrote:
>
>> Just a quick question on MLPPP. We can successfully connect and maintain
a
>> MLPPP connection (analog) if the two connections are on the same chasis.
It
>> will not work if the connections are on separate chasis. Can you have a
>> MLPPP connection across chasis? How?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Walt
>> -----------------------------------------------------
>> Walter N. Gnann
>> ISLC, Manager
>> 843.770.1000
>> 843.770.1002 (fax)
>> wgnann@islc.net
>> http://www.islc.net
>> http://www.beaufortcomputerclub.org
>> -----------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Need help with T-1/Netserver/Quad modems From: Andres Kroonmaa <andre@ml.ee> Date: 1998-07-25 14:13:54
On 24 Jul 98, at 17:27, Jim Logan <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com> wrote:
> At 02:48 PM 7/24/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >
> > Another question to anyone that knows - Is the Dual Pri NIC Card the same
> >as the Dual T1 Nic? Or do the NAC's have to be move with Appropriate NIC's
> >when moving them from one TC Unit to another?
> >
> > If they aren't the same, how can I tell if my Failure of the TCM to
> >recognize the card in Slot 1 is related to the NIC or NAC Card?
> >
> > (I know - you all have Hiper Units - I'll be there one of these days!)
> >
>
> I think I answered this myself - Since the Part Number for the NIC's,
> regardless if you use Dual PRI or Dual T-1 card NAC's is the same, and I
> can access a Dual T-1 Card in Slot 1, obviously the NIC card is fine. Also
> didn't know that the Dual PRI Card is warranty'd for 2 years, so USR/3Com
> now has a box headed their direction. Still would like to know the answer
> to my Dual T-1 Configuration problem, and all the DSO Setting show normal,
> and with Modems all showing connected, the settings (and calls to unit)
> using the RS232 side of things show all DS0 as "call-ignore" and modems
> "call-busy".
Although i don't have T1's, just few thoughts:
1) In modem config (TCM), DTE Interface Settings, there are items
"DTE Interface slot" and "Busy Out", check these.
2) for T1 Trunk, there is setting of "Idle byte pattern", this might
cause troubles. (It must match all - modems, T1, and Telco)
3) make sure that Netserver has modems activated, try:
1. set modem Sx-Sy inactive
2. reset Sx-Sy
3. set modem Sx-Sy active
4. reset Sx-Sy
4) Hardware reset modems,
5) check for chassis clocks.
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Need help with T-1/Netserver/Quad modems From: Jim Logan <jim@top.net> Date: 1998-07-25 15:47:24
At 02:13 PM 7/25/98 +0300, you wrote:
>On 24 Jul 98, at 17:27, Jim Logan <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com> wrote:
>
>> At 02:48 PM 7/24/98 -0500, you wrote:
>> >
Thanks for the assist...
> Although i don't have T1's, just few thoughts:
> 1) In modem config (TCM), DTE Interface Settings, there are items
> "DTE Interface slot" and "Busy Out", check these.
DTE Interface Source says "nic" Only other choice is 'packet bus' ours
are set for nic
Busy Out is set for 'ext clock 1' other choice is just plain 'busy out'
> 2) for T1 Trunk, there is setting of "Idle byte pattern", this might
> cause troubles. (It must match all - modems, T1, and Telco)
Not sure where this Idle Byte Pattern is? Lines are set Idle Byte
Pattern 254 on the 2 T-1 Spans inthe configuration of the DS Trunk
Settings. Where is this settable on modems, etc?
> 3) make sure that Netserver has modems activated, try:
> 1. set modem Sx-Sy inactive
> 2. reset Sx-Sy
> 3. set modem Sx-Sy active
> 4. reset Sx-Sy
> 4) Hardware reset modems,
Tried all the resets after 1st saving to NVRam on all modems - Hardware
and soft resets
> 5) check for chassis clocks.
This is the funny part - TCM Reports on T1 Tests, that TDM Bus Timing
Souce Test Pass, yet still using TCM, the T1 Programmed setings show
Internal Timing Source - Not allowed, TDM Bus Timing Source - Not allowed,
and lastly, T1 Idle Disconnect Pattern - 1 (is this same as Byte pattern
254 above??).
Tried to go by USR.3Com to get a Install manual for configuration for Dual
T1 Card, all I could find is the Book on how to Plug the Nic/Nac in...
Nothing much about the settings at all of any significance relative to the
manual I have for DualPri Nac Card...
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Need help with T-1/Netserver/Quad modems From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-25 15:54:41
On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Jim Logan wrote:
> At 02:13 PM 7/25/98 +0300, you wrote:
> >On 24 Jul 98, at 17:27, Jim Logan <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com> wrote:
> >
> >> At 02:48 PM 7/24/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >> >
>
> Thanks for the assist...
>
> > Although i don't have T1's, just few thoughts:
> > 1) In modem config (TCM), DTE Interface Settings, there are items
> > "DTE Interface slot" and "Busy Out", check these.
>
> DTE Interface Source says "nic" Only other choice is 'packet bus' ours
> are set for nic
> Busy Out is set for 'ext clock 1' other choice is just plain 'busy out'
nic is for analog lines, it should be packetbus for t1's/pri's
>
> > 2) for T1 Trunk, there is setting of "Idle byte pattern", this might
> > cause troubles. (It must match all - modems, T1, and Telco)
> Not sure where this Idle Byte Pattern is? Lines are set Idle Byte
> Pattern 254 on the 2 T-1 Spans inthe configuration of the DS Trunk
> Settings. Where is this settable on modems, etc?
>
> > 3) make sure that Netserver has modems activated, try:
> > 1. set modem Sx-Sy inactive
> > 2. reset Sx-Sy
> > 3. set modem Sx-Sy active
> > 4. reset Sx-Sy
> > 4) Hardware reset modems,
>
> Tried all the resets after 1st saving to NVRam on all modems - Hardware
> and soft resets
>
> > 5) check for chassis clocks.
>
> This is the funny part - TCM Reports on T1 Tests, that TDM Bus Timing
> Souce Test Pass, yet still using TCM, the T1 Programmed setings show
> Internal Timing Source - Not allowed, TDM Bus Timing Source - Not allowed,
> and lastly, T1 Idle Disconnect Pattern - 1 (is this same as Byte pattern
> 254 above??).
>
> Tried to go by USR.3Com to get a Install manual for configuration for Dual
> T1 Card, all I could find is the Book on how to Plug the Nic/Nac in...
> Nothing much about the settings at all of any significance relative to the
> manual I have for DualPri Nac Card...
>
>
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Dear List,
Can anyone kindly shed some light on this.
I have a trunk T-1 when connected to a dual T-1, Quad modems and netserver
bundle,
I get X2 and V.90, 56K.
When I move the T-1 to a DSP on a hyper bundle chassis, only V.34, 33.6bps.
The client end is a Courier Imodem with ISDN connection.
Liping Chen
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Need help with T-1/Netserver/Quad modems From: Jim Logan <jim@top.net> Date: 1998-07-25 16:44:30
At 03:54 PM 7/25/98 -0500, you wrote:
>On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Jim Logan wrote:
>
>> At 02:13 PM 7/25/98 +0300, you wrote:
>> >On 24 Jul 98, at 17:27, Jim Logan <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> At 02:48 PM 7/24/98 -0500, you wrote:
>> >> >
>>
>> Thanks for the assist...
>>
>> > Although i don't have T1's, just few thoughts:
>> > 1) In modem config (TCM), DTE Interface Settings, there are items
>> > "DTE Interface slot" and "Busy Out", check these.
>>
>> DTE Interface Source says "nic" Only other choice is 'packet bus' ours
>> are set for nic
>> Busy Out is set for 'ext clock 1' other choice is just plain 'busy out'
>
>nic is for analog lines, it should be packetbus for t1's/pri's
And each time I might try to change to packetbus, it toggles, "set" , save
to NVRam, Go back and look on the modem card DTE Settings - It's back to
NIC as the selection, DTE Interface Slot 16 on next line down.
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) USR MLPPP with Linux From: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@interpath.net> Date: 1998-07-25 16:50:32
Tatai SV Krishnan was heard to say:
>On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Mark R. Lindsey wrote:
>> Does USR's MLPPP implementation work with Linux' serial load balancing?
>>
>Linux Serial load balancing is load balancing based on some high water
>mark over serial lines. In NETserver as well as the HiPer arc, when you
>start ppp two variable are taken into consideration for MLPPP. The first
>one is the username and the second one is multilink end point id. So to
>answer your question - yes If the second call is made and if it has the
>same username and if the multilink end point id match then you will have
>a MLPPP connections.
Umm, the simple answer is no. There should be a way to get EQL to work for
the Netserver as I've heard reports that EQL works for portmasters which the
Netserver OS is based on.
As far as the above statements... EQL builds its "bundle" ahead of pppd. So,
unless pppd understands this and can issue MLPPP setup info, then you will
not be able to bond channels, i.e. if MP is not part of the initial linkup
protocols, then MLPPP will not work.
EQL is a character based load balancing. MLPPP is a packet based load
balancing. (I think you can set EQL for n*character blocks, but it's still
a fixed byte size.)
--Ricky
Subject:(usr-tc) TC for cable modems anyone? From: Eric <elorenzo@mediacity.com> Date: 1998-07-25 19:17:46
I've asked if anyone uses the TC rack for cable modems and usually get one
or two responses...
Is anyone having client diconnect problems with CARCs loaded with firmware
1.3.6? Problems with client v1.76? Get in touch if you are or are not.
I'd love to discuss this. I'm pursuing this with 3Com's R&D, but it would
be great to know if anyone is experiencing.
Eric
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On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Marcelo Souza wrote:
After RTFM a could fix this. No reply needed!
Thanks!
- Marcelo
| After de upgrade of DSP code, I got the following error:
|
|SCB Country Code Error
|Country code invalid, please program
|
| What must be done to correct it?
|
|
|- Marcelo
|
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Need help with T-1/Netserver/Quad modems From: Tatai SV Krishnan <tkrishna@bubba.ae.usr.com> Date: 1998-07-25 20:55:10
In case of the arc the command is
set chass slot "modem slot" owner "yes/no"
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On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Jeff Mcadams wrote:
> Thus spake Jim Logan
> > And each time I might try to change to packetbus, it toggles, "set" , save
> >to NVRam, Go back and look on the modem card DTE Settings - It's back to
> >NIC as the selection, DTE Interface Slot 16 on next line down.
>
> You're trying to set DTE source to packetbus? (Sorry, just picked up on
> this thread) Don't try to do it from the modem, it won't work. Go into
> the Netserver (don't know the commands for the ARC) and say "set modem
> s5-s52 active" (this is just an example, set's quad modem cards in slots
> 2-13 active). Then, save all, reset all. Then when you look at DTE
> settings on the modem, it should say packetbus.
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Subject:(usr-tc) TCM on Solaris 2.6 From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-25 21:05:01
Has anyone heard anything about whether 3Com is going to port TCM to
Solaris 2.6? Does anyone know what the hold up is? Surely this is a
trivial task for those that wrote the program.
What do you all think of a JAVA based TCM, that way it wont be so damn
platform dependant.
JAVA JAVA JAVA!!
Brian
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Need help with T-1/Netserver/Quad modems From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com> Date: 1998-07-25 22:21:21
Thus spake Jim Logan
> And each time I might try to change to packetbus, it toggles, "set" , save
>to NVRam, Go back and look on the modem card DTE Settings - It's back to
>NIC as the selection, DTE Interface Slot 16 on next line down.
You're trying to set DTE source to packetbus? (Sorry, just picked up on
this thread) Don't try to do it from the modem, it won't work. Go into
the Netserver (don't know the commands for the ARC) and say "set modem
s5-s52 active" (this is just an example, set's quad modem cards in slots
2-13 active). Then, save all, reset all. Then when you look at DTE
settings on the modem, it should say packetbus.
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We've upgraded several of our HiPer's the the V.90 code, and they're working
great... for x2/v90 customers. However they appear to really _BITE_ for
folks using v.34. Most of them get really shoddy connection speeds (we've
personally seen as low as 9600bd) and get booted randomly with 'lost
carrier'. Has anyone else seen this? USR is there is fix for this?
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Subject:(usr-tc) lost-carrier and v.90 code? From: andy <smitha@mach3ww.com> Date: 1998-07-26 00:01:41
On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Brett Hawn wrote:
> We've upgraded several of our HiPer's the the V.90 code, and they're working
> great... for x2/v90 customers. However they appear to really _BITE_ for
> folks using v.34. Most of them get really shoddy connection speeds (we've
> personally seen as low as 9600bd) and get booted randomly with 'lost
> carrier'. Has anyone else seen this? USR is there is fix for this?
Me, and several others are seeing "random" lost-carrier disconnects with
HiperDSP v.90 code with the HiperArc, AND with the v.90 code for the quads
working with the netserver card. I've been told there are "no current
issues (bugs) with the v.90 code". So who knows.... it could be my fault
(eg. some telco setting not configured right), or it could be a BUG. :(
I'm thinking that if it was a bug it would have at least been discovered
and fixed by now in the quad's....
Has anyone been able to run v.90 successfully with the netserver and
quad's? or with the hiperDSP/hiperarc? You might want to check your radius
log's and see just how many lost carrier's you are getting a day.... I
didn't notice this problem right away because for us its been completely
random. Because of that not many users complained right away....
I'm considering downgrading to older code that just supports X2 and seeing
if that is somewhat stable....I tried turning off v.90 in
my current code but it didn't help. Obviously I won't be happy if I have
to downgrade. Let's hope I'm just missing a small telco setting or
soemthing.
-
andy
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) TCM on Solaris 2.6 From: Mike Andrews <mandrews@termfrost.org> Date: 1998-07-26 00:52:41
Heh. I've got at least some of its functionality reimplemented in Perl;
never quite got around to finishing it though. What I've got is at
http://www.dcr.net/~mandrews/usrtoys if anyone cares. It's not Java, but
it's not really wired to one platform either...
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On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Brian wrote:
> Has anyone heard anything about whether 3Com is going to port TCM to
> Solaris 2.6? Does anyone know what the hold up is? Surely this is a
> trivial task for those that wrote the program.
>
> What do you all think of a JAVA based TCM, that way it wont be so damn
> platform dependant.
>
> JAVA JAVA JAVA!!
>
> Brian
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) lost-carrier and v.90 code? From: Mike Andrews <mandrews@termfrost.org> Date: 1998-07-26 01:25:56
On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, andy wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Brett Hawn wrote:
>
> > We've upgraded several of our HiPer's the the V.90 code, and they're working
> > great... for x2/v90 customers. However they appear to really _BITE_ for
> > folks using v.34. Most of them get really shoddy connection speeds (we've
> > personally seen as low as 9600bd) and get booted randomly with 'lost
> > carrier'. Has anyone else seen this? USR is there is fix for this?
>
> Me, and several others are seeing "random" lost-carrier disconnects with
> HiperDSP v.90 code with the HiperArc, AND with the v.90 code for the quads
> working with the netserver card. I've been told there are "no current
> issues (bugs) with the v.90 code". So who knows.... it could be my fault
I don't believe that for a second, at least for the quads. We very
definitely have a major issue with the Quad v.90 code, and it's starting
to cost us customers. Quite a few people with Rockwell 33.6K modems can't
reliably connect unless they manually step down to 31200 or lower (using
AT+MS=11,1,300,31200 in their init strings). I've even got one guy with a
Sportster having the same problem. With the older Quad code this was not
a problem. With the non-v.90 DSP code this was not a problem. (Don't
know about the v.90 DSP code; we don't have any of the afflicted client
modems in-house and I haven't had the opportunity to call anyone to test.)
I verified this by downgrading, but then all the v.90 users complained
even louder than the 28.8K Rockwell people so I had to put it back. Just
can't make everyone happy with this code...
We don't seem to have a chronic disconnect problem though... a few people
here and there. I haven't done any detailed log analysis though.
While I'm at it, other annoying bugs I've found in everything:
1) The ARC has no apparent way to get the idle time of a session like the
NETserver does.
2) The DSP's don't record the v.34 frequency probe information -- the SNMP
objects mdmCsFreqProbeData and mdmCsLevelProbeData always return 0. We
use this to let users check the condition of their line (to see if a
v.90/x2 modem is usable on their line)... and it doesn't work on the
HDM's.
3) There's a weird "off-by-one" error in some of the DSP SNMP trap
settings. If you try to set mdmTeConnAttemptFailure or mdmTeNoLoopCurrent
to 3 on a DSP card, it will work on all BUT the rightmost card. It will
appear to set, but if you then re-read the value two seconds later, it
will have reverted to 2 on the rightmost card. i.e. put 3 DSP's in a
chassis, in slots 1 to 3. The setting will stick on cards 1 and 2, but
not on 3. Plug a 4th in, and card 3 will start to stick but card 4 won't.
One last thing...
Is Quake 2 even more sensitive to UDP latency than Quake 1 is? We have
one guy who says that he's getting unusable lag on our NETservers, but not
on our ARC's, and not on any of our competitors (who all use Ascend or
Livingston; maybe all Ascend now)... Unfortunately moving completely to
ARCs isn't really an option for us right now (we need memory upgrades for
our NMC's, not to mention MPIP)... and we don't have a separate number
for our ARCs as Bellsouth didn't think they could make their DMS100 do
that. (I'll ask them again.)
OK, enough ranting for tonight...
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Need help with T-1/Netserver/Quad modems From: Jim Logan <jim@top.net> Date: 1998-07-26 13:41:37
At 08:55 PM 7/25/98 -0500, you wrote:
>In case of the arc the command is
>
>set chass slot "modem slot" owner "yes/no"
>
>krish
>
Don't have Arc Cards (Must be Hyper stuff) as we haven't progessed that
far yet. Just a Unit that was Dual PRI, PRI Card is on it's way back to USR
since it was under warranty. Had a spare USR TC here with Dual T1 rather
than PRI and was trying to get it set up on a line that we do have 2 DSS
CT-1 Circuits on... The unit Syncs up fine to the line, just this DNIS
stuff, or whatever, is driving me crazy. Ascend Units you have specify the
dial-in number on each of the modems for T1 service (Vs PRI you never have
to show any dial-in number)... The USR TC shows all modems in normal state,
hooked up to TDM Bus fine, but in looking via RS232 Port all show
"call-ignore" and "busy-out" on the modems... They are all Connected fine
via TCM Screens, so I'm wondering why these modems always show
"call-ignore", etc.. There is no where in TCM that I can even see that
same screen scenario..
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Subject:(usr-tc) ``Afflicted clients'' From: Mark R. Lindsey <mark@vielle.datasys.net> Date: 1998-07-26 14:06:35
: (Don't know about the v.90 DSP code; we don't have any of the
: afflicted client modems in-house and I haven't had the opportunity to
: call anyone to test.)
There's an interesting statement; here's a thought: keep some good
modems in house, and when you're having a chronic weird problem, offer
to trade one of your modems for the one having trouble. Voila: you have
test equipment and one happier customer.
Bad idea?
On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Mark R. Lindsey wrote:
> : (Don't know about the v.90 DSP code; we don't have any of the
> : afflicted client modems in-house and I haven't had the opportunity to
> : call anyone to test.)
>
> There's an interesting statement; here's a thought: keep some good
> modems in house, and when you're having a chronic weird problem, offer
> to trade one of your modems for the one having trouble. Voila: you have
> test equipment and one happier customer.
>
>
> Bad idea?
Only if you trade, say, your Courier for their LT Winmodem, and your
definition of "trade" includes the word "free". That could get a bit
financially lopsided. :)
Still, not a bad idea. Maybe we should stockpile some Sportsters.
We occasionally do house calls, and for the *really* tough cases, I haul
an old decrepit 486 subnotebook with a Megahertz v.90 in it, and plug it
into their line. That's pretty much how I discovered the aforementioned
bug. User had some no-name 33.6K modem. It started to connect, then at
the end of the handshake, just stopped and went to a steady high-pitched
tone. Every 5th or 6th try it would get it, but most of the time it
wouldn't. My laptop modem got a solid 46K connect every time, whether x2
or v.90 (tried both). I even stepped my modem back to v.34, and it was
still solid. I busied out all the quads, and his modem started connecting
perfectly when it was hitting only DSP's. (This was 2 months ago, before
v.90 was available for DSP's.) For the week or so that I had downgraded
the quads to non-v.90 code, the users with these types of modem problems
said that things had cleared up.
Mike Andrews (MA12) icq 6602506 -------------- mandrews@dcr.net
Senior Systems/Network Administrator --- mandrews@termfrost.org
Digital Crescent, Frankfort, KY ----- http://www.termfrost.org/
"If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?..."
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GCS/MU d- s: a- C++ UBX++++ P++ L+ !E W+++ N++ K++ w--- O+ M+ V+++ PS+++
PE- Y+ !t !5 !X !R tv- b+ DI++ D++ e++ h++ r++ y++*@
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While we're on v.90 problems, another situation that renders the
connection useless is using v.90 (in our case a new Courier with the
latest v.90 code dialing into a quad) through an SLC. Our office lines
are delivered through these things, and v.90 is unusable. Connects fine,
but the number of CRCs makes the data go at about 100 Bytes/sec. Turn off
v.90, and all is well. X2 tops out at the high 30's, and v.34 at 26,400.
And for the record, we've been seeing many of the same problems everyone
else is reporting for months. It's cost us a number of subscribers... We
have an alternate dialup that terminates in 33.6 Couriers on an Annex, but
that just doesn't cut it for some people...
Charles
On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Mike Andrews wrote:
> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 14:21:10 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Mike Andrews <mandrews@termfrost.org>
> Reply-To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> Subject: Re: (usr-tc) ``Afflicted clients''
>
> On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Mark R. Lindsey wrote:
>
> > : (Don't know about the v.90 DSP code; we don't have any of the
> > : afflicted client modems in-house and I haven't had the opportunity to
> > : call anyone to test.)
> >
> > There's an interesting statement; here's a thought: keep some good
> > modems in house, and when you're having a chronic weird problem, offer
> > to trade one of your modems for the one having trouble. Voila: you have
> > test equipment and one happier customer.
> >
> >
> > Bad idea?
>
> Only if you trade, say, your Courier for their LT Winmodem, and your
> definition of "trade" includes the word "free". That could get a bit
> financially lopsided. :)
>
> Still, not a bad idea. Maybe we should stockpile some Sportsters.
>
> We occasionally do house calls, and for the *really* tough cases, I haul
> an old decrepit 486 subnotebook with a Megahertz v.90 in it, and plug it
> into their line. That's pretty much how I discovered the aforementioned
> bug. User had some no-name 33.6K modem. It started to connect, then at
> the end of the handshake, just stopped and went to a steady high-pitched
> tone. Every 5th or 6th try it would get it, but most of the time it
> wouldn't. My laptop modem got a solid 46K connect every time, whether x2
> or v.90 (tried both). I even stepped my modem back to v.34, and it was
> still solid. I busied out all the quads, and his modem started connecting
> perfectly when it was hitting only DSP's. (This was 2 months ago, before
> v.90 was available for DSP's.) For the week or so that I had downgraded
> the quads to non-v.90 code, the users with these types of modem problems
> said that things had cleared up.
>
>
> Mike Andrews (MA12) icq 6602506 -------------- mandrews@dcr.net
> Senior Systems/Network Administrator --- mandrews@termfrost.org
> Digital Crescent, Frankfort, KY ----- http://www.termfrost.org/
> "If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?..."
>
> -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
> Version: 3.1
> GCS/MU d- s: a- C++ UBX++++ P++ L+ !E W+++ N++ K++ w--- O+ M+ V+++ PS+++
> PE- Y+ !t !5 !X !R tv- b+ DI++ D++ e++ h++ r++ y++*@
> -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
>
>
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) TCM on Solaris 2.6 From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-26 20:14:36
On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Ricky Beam wrote:
> Brian was heard to say:
> >Has anyone heard anything about whether 3Com is going to port TCM to
> >Solaris 2.6? Does anyone know what the hold up is? Surely this is a
> >trivial task for those that wrote the program.
>
> It's just a matter of building it on a 2.6 machine, I think.
If you're right (and I think you are), thats @#$@ing pathetic that it
hasn't been released yet. I mean we are talking about typing "make" and
waiting maybe a short while.
>
> >What do you all think of a JAVA based TCM, that way it wont be so damn
> >platform dependant.
>
> Gez, it ain't slow enough for you already? Don't make me hurt you!
> (They cannot write good C/C++ code and you expect them to do a better job
> with JAVA?)
get out of my dream! out! out!
>
> --Ricky
>
>
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) TCM on Solaris 2.6 From: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@interpath.net> Date: 1998-07-26 20:21:51
Brian was heard to say:
>Has anyone heard anything about whether 3Com is going to port TCM to
>Solaris 2.6? Does anyone know what the hold up is? Surely this is a
>trivial task for those that wrote the program.
It's just a matter of building it on a 2.6 machine, I think.
>What do you all think of a JAVA based TCM, that way it wont be so damn
>platform dependant.
Gez, it ain't slow enough for you already? Don't make me hurt you!
(They cannot write good C/C++ code and you expect them to do a better job
with JAVA?)
--Ricky
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) TCM on Solaris 2.6 From: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@interpath.net> Date: 1998-07-26 20:21:51
Brian was heard to say:
>Has anyone heard anything about whether 3Com is going to port TCM to
>Solaris 2.6? Does anyone know what the hold up is? Surely this is a
>trivial task for those that wrote the program.
It's just a matter of building it on a 2.6 machine, I think.
>What do you all think of a JAVA based TCM, that way it wont be so damn
>platform dependant.
Gez, it ain't slow enough for you already? Don't make me hurt you!
(They cannot write good C/C++ code and you expect them to do a better job
with JAVA?)
--Ricky
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) TCM on Solaris 2.6 From: Mark R. Lindsey <mark@vielle.datasys.net> Date: 1998-07-26 21:24:38
: > Brian was heard to say:
: > >Has anyone heard anything about whether 3Com is going to port TCM to
: > >Solaris 2.6? Does anyone know what the hold up is? Surely this is a
: > >trivial task for those that wrote the program.
: >
: > It's just a matter of building it on a 2.6 machine, I think.
:
: If you're right (and I think you are), thats @#$@ing pathetic that it
: hasn't been released yet. I mean we are talking about typing "make" and
: waiting maybe a short while.
I believe that [I've heard that] they outsourced the development of TCM,
and have it produced for certain platforms. A level-two tech support
guy told me over 10 months ago that a Linux version was in the works,
but I guess that never made it into the contract.
I'm not sure who actually makes the decision about what platforms are
included, but we would do well to find him, and encourage some clear
thinking.
Yes there is a default user on the hiper arc where you can set the idle
and session timeout
set net user default idle " "
krish
\ T.S.V. Krishnan \
\ Network System Engineer \ ( : - : )
\ 3Com ............ \
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The Yadda Yadda Search - for simple anwers - http://interproc.ae.usr.com/tkb.html
Any Sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable for a feature.
- Rick Kulawiec
On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Randy Cosby wrote:
> Is anyone applying Session-Timeout and Idle-Timeout's with TC racks
> (netserver or
> HiperArc) via Radius? Mine seem to be ignored. Is there a default user
> timeout/idle timeout that can be set on the HiperARC?
>
> thanks,
>
> Randy Cosby <dcosby@infowest.com>
> Vice President
> InfoWest Global Internet Services, Inc.
> (435)674-0165 http://www.infowest.com
>
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) TCM on Solaris 2.6 From: Brian Elfert <brian@citilink.com> Date: 1998-07-27 09:16:00
On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Brian wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Ricky Beam wrote:
>
> > Brian was heard to say:
> > >Has anyone heard anything about whether 3Com is going to port TCM to
> > >Solaris 2.6? Does anyone know what the hold up is? Surely this is a
> > >trivial task for those that wrote the program.
> >
> > It's just a matter of building it on a 2.6 machine, I think.
>
> If you're right (and I think you are), thats @#$@ing pathetic that it
> hasn't been released yet. I mean we are talking about typing "make" and
> waiting maybe a short while.
Wasn't TCM for Solaris written by a third party for USR/3Com? Maybe 3Com
doesn't have rights to the code, and they can't get the third party to
recompile it?
Brian
Subject:(usr-tc) Odd problem with SMTP/POP3 From: Eric Billeter <ebilleter@cableone.net> Date: 1998-07-27 09:50:13
I have been having reports of customers having problems
with their E-mail .. both sending and recieving. I have
an automated poller that has no problems either sending
or recieving. When the problem occurs they can do a telnet
session to the SMTP or POP3 server and it responds ok, however
their email software won't connect. Nothing has been changed
on the servers, the only change has been to upgrade the TCHs
(netserver/quad combo) to v.90
This is happening mostly for ISDN customers but I also have 1
analog customer who has reported the same problem. I don't
know if the problem could be in the TCH, but I haven't been
able to recreate the problem here. I am putting in a new ARC
chassis and will see if the problem continues or resolves itself.
Any ideas??
Eric T. Billeter Cable One
Internet Engineer 1314 North 3rd Street
ebilleter@cableone.net Phoenix, AZ 85004
-----Original Message-----
[mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of -=X=-
Sent: Monday, July 27, 1998 7:27 AM
Hello!
> Has anyone been able to run v.90 successfully with the netserver and
> quad's? or with the hiperDSP/hiperarc? You might want to check your radius
> log's and see just how many lost carrier's you are getting a day.... I
> didn't notice this problem right away because for us its been completely
> random. Because of that not many users complained right away....
We have 2 PRI's into our box with Quads and our speeds seem to be fine. I
am not positive if some of the lower speeds are due to crappy modems or
lines, but here is a sample of what we got after upgrading to v.90:
TX Mod. Type x2 Status
bps28K(21) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps26K(20) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps29333(28) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps32000(30) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps14K(10) v32Terbo(19) v8notDetectedFromRemote(7)
bps28K(21) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps29333(28) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps31K(23) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps48000(42) v90Digital(34) v90Operational(15)
bps31K(23) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps29333(28) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps29333(28) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps26K(20) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps28K(21) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps28K(21) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps29333(28) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps28K(21) v34(20) excessiveHFAttenuation(12)
bps26K(20) v34(20) excessiveHFAttenuation(12)
bps32000(30) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps29333(28) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps14K(10) v32Terbo(19) v8notDetectedFromRemote(7)
bps14K(10) v32Terbo(19) v8notDetectedFromRemote(7)
bps28K(21) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps16K(11) v34(20) excessiveHFAttenuation(12)
bps49333(43) v90Digital(34) v90Operational(15)
bps29333(28) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps28K(21) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps52000(45) v90Digital(34) v90Operational(15)
bps49333(43) v90Digital(34) v90Operational(15)
bps48000(42) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps28K(21) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps29333(28) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps52000(45) v90Digital(34) v90Operational(15)
bps29333(28) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps28K(21) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps28K(21) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps29333(28) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps29333(28) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps32000(30) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps28K(21) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps28K(21) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps28K(21) v34(20) excessiveHFAttenuation(12)
bps28K(21) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps29333(28) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps29333(28) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps26K(20) v34(20) excessiveHFAttenuation(12)
bps26K(20) v34(20) excessiveHFAttenuation(12)
bps26K(20) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
I see that excessiveHFAttenuation on a few lines, but most of the speeds
are decent. We do have some folks dialed up who are out in BFE, however,
so I am pretty sure that most of the slower speeds are due to that reason.
FYI
Dan Allen - System Admin.
-Novagate Communications Corp.-
>
> I'm considering downgrading to older code that just supports X2 and seeing
> if that is somewhat stable....I tried turning off v.90 in
> my current code but it didn't help. Obviously I won't be happy if I have
> to downgrade. Let's hope I'm just missing a small telco setting or
> soemthing.
>
> -
> andy
>
>
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Hello!
> Has anyone been able to run v.90 successfully with the netserver and
> quad's? or with the hiperDSP/hiperarc? You might want to check your radius
> log's and see just how many lost carrier's you are getting a day.... I
> didn't notice this problem right away because for us its been completely
> random. Because of that not many users complained right away....
We have 2 PRI's into our box with Quads and our speeds seem to be fine. I
am not positive if some of the lower speeds are due to crappy modems or
lines, but here is a sample of what we got after upgrading to v.90:
TX Mod. Type x2 Status
bps28K(21) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps26K(20) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps29333(28) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps32000(30) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps14K(10) v32Terbo(19) v8notDetectedFromRemote(7)
bps28K(21) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps29333(28) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps31K(23) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps48000(42) v90Digital(34) v90Operational(15)
bps31K(23) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps29333(28) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps29333(28) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps26K(20) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps28K(21) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps28K(21) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps29333(28) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps28K(21) v34(20) excessiveHFAttenuation(12)
bps26K(20) v34(20) excessiveHFAttenuation(12)
bps32000(30) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps29333(28) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps14K(10) v32Terbo(19) v8notDetectedFromRemote(7)
bps14K(10) v32Terbo(19) v8notDetectedFromRemote(7)
bps28K(21) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps16K(11) v34(20) excessiveHFAttenuation(12)
bps49333(43) v90Digital(34) v90Operational(15)
bps29333(28) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps28K(21) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps52000(45) v90Digital(34) v90Operational(15)
bps49333(43) v90Digital(34) v90Operational(15)
bps48000(42) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps28K(21) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps29333(28) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps52000(45) v90Digital(34) v90Operational(15)
bps29333(28) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps28K(21) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps28K(21) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps29333(28) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps29333(28) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps32000(30) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps28K(21) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps28K(21) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps28K(21) v34(20) excessiveHFAttenuation(12)
bps28K(21) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
bps29333(28) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps29333(28) x2server(23) x2Operational(2)
bps26K(20) v34(20) excessiveHFAttenuation(12)
bps26K(20) v34(20) excessiveHFAttenuation(12)
bps26K(20) v34(20) x2notDetectedFromRemote(8)
I see that excessiveHFAttenuation on a few lines, but most of the speeds
are decent. We do have some folks dialed up who are out in BFE, however,
so I am pretty sure that most of the slower speeds are due to that reason.
FYI
Dan Allen - System Admin.
-Novagate Communications Corp.-
>
> I'm considering downgrading to older code that just supports X2 and seeing
> if that is somewhat stable....I tried turning off v.90 in
> my current code but it didn't help. Obviously I won't be happy if I have
> to downgrade. Let's hope I'm just missing a small telco setting or
> soemthing.
>
> -
> andy
>
>
> -
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Subject:(usr-tc) Filtering Windows file sharing on ARC From: Randy Cosby <dcosby@infowest.com> Date: 1998-07-27 11:43:16
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Before I dive head-in to filters, I'm wondering if anyone else is using
filters on the ARC to block Windows file sharing? Could you post some
example filters?
From what I understand, I need to block IP ports 137,138 and 139. Anything
else?
Thanks!
Randy Cosby <dcosby@infowest.com>
Vice President
InfoWest Global Internet Services, Inc.
(435)674-0165 http://www.infowest.com
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Is anyone applying Session-Timeout and Idle-Timeout's with TC racks
(netserver or
HiperArc) via Radius? Mine seem to be ignored. Is there a default user
timeout/idle timeout that can be set on the HiperARC?
thanks,
Randy Cosby <dcosby@infowest.com>
Vice President
InfoWest Global Internet Services, Inc.
(435)674-0165 http://www.infowest.com
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) TCM on Solaris 2.6 From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-27 11:59:27
On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Brian Elfert wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Brian wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Ricky Beam wrote:
> >
> > > Brian was heard to say:
> > > >Has anyone heard anything about whether 3Com is going to port TCM to
> > > >Solaris 2.6? Does anyone know what the hold up is? Surely this is a
> > > >trivial task for those that wrote the program.
> > >
> > > It's just a matter of building it on a 2.6 machine, I think.
> >
> > If you're right (and I think you are), thats @#$@ing pathetic that it
> > hasn't been released yet. I mean we are talking about typing "make" and
> > waiting maybe a short while.
>
> Wasn't TCM for Solaris written by a third party for USR/3Com? Maybe 3Com
> doesn't have rights to the code, and they can't get the third party to
> recompile it?
As far as I know, All of TCM was outsourced.
Brian
>
> Brian
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Subject:RE: (usr-tc) Timeouts.. From: Randy Cosby <dcosby@infowest.com> Date: 1998-07-27 13:32:16
Thanks. Are the radius reply attributes being ignored?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> [mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Marcelo Souza
> Sent: Monday, July 27, 1998 12:12 PM
> To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> Subject: Re: (usr-tc) Timeouts..
>
>
>
> On ARC you can do:
>
> HiPer>> set usER default idLE_TIMEOUT
> or
> HiPer>> set useR default seSSION_TIMEOUT
>
> Here by safe I also put in the modem string S19=30.
>
> - Marcelo
>
> On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Randy Cosby wrote:
>
> |Is anyone applying Session-Timeout and Idle-Timeout's with TC racks
> |(netserver or
> |HiperArc) via Radius? Mine seem to be ignored. Is there a default user
> |timeout/idle timeout that can be set on the HiperARC?
> |
> |thanks,
> |
> |Randy Cosby <dcosby@infowest.com>
> |Vice President
> |InfoWest Global Internet Services, Inc.
> |(435)674-0165 http://www.infowest.com
> |
>
> - Marcelo
>
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In texasnet.usr-tc, you wrote:
>Yes there is a default user on the hiper arc where you can set the idle
>and session timeout
>
>set net user default idle " "
>
>krish
My question is why do the HiPer's not accept the standard radius attribute
of Idle-Timeout ?
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Subject:RE: (usr-tc) Timeouts.. From: Randy Cosby <dcosby@infowest.com> Date: 1998-07-27 14:45:14
I'm testing on Radiator.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> [mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Marcelo Souza
> Sent: Monday, July 27, 1998 2:31 PM
> To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> Subject: RE: (usr-tc) Timeouts..
>
>
> On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Randy Cosby wrote:
>
> |Thanks. Are the radius reply attributes being ignored?
>
> I had not tested. But you give a good ideia. I will test it here.
>
> BTW, witch radius are you using?
>
> - Marcelo
> |
> |
> |> -----Original Message-----
> |> From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> |> [mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Marcelo Souza
> |> Sent: Monday, July 27, 1998 12:12 PM
> |> To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> |> Subject: Re: (usr-tc) Timeouts..
> |>
> |>
> |>
> |> On ARC you can do:
> |>
> |> HiPer>> set usER default idLE_TIMEOUT
> |> or
> |> HiPer>> set useR default seSSION_TIMEOUT
> |>
> |> Here by safe I also put in the modem string S19=30.
> |>
> |> - Marcelo
> |>
> |> On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Randy Cosby wrote:
> |>
> |> |Is anyone applying Session-Timeout and Idle-Timeout's with TC racks
> |> |(netserver or
> |> |HiperArc) via Radius? Mine seem to be ignored. Is there a
> default user
> |> |timeout/idle timeout that can be set on the HiperARC?
> |> |
> |> |thanks,
> |> |
> |> |Randy Cosby <dcosby@infowest.com>
> |> |Vice President
> |> |InfoWest Global Internet Services, Inc.
> |> |(435)674-0165 http://www.infowest.com
> |> |
> |>
> |> - Marcelo
> |>
> |>
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On ARC you can do:
HiPer>> set usER default idLE_TIMEOUT
or
HiPer>> set useR default seSSION_TIMEOUT
Here by safe I also put in the modem string S19=30.
- Marcelo
On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Randy Cosby wrote:
|Is anyone applying Session-Timeout and Idle-Timeout's with TC racks
|(netserver or
|HiperArc) via Radius? Mine seem to be ignored. Is there a default user
|timeout/idle timeout that can be set on the HiperARC?
|
|thanks,
|
|Randy Cosby <dcosby@infowest.com>
|Vice President
|InfoWest Global Internet Services, Inc.
|(435)674-0165 http://www.infowest.com
|
- Marcelo
Once upon a time Walt Gnann shaped the electrons to say...
>Just a quick question on MLPPP. We can successfully connect and maintain a
That's "MP" - please don't call it MLPPP, it gets confused with all of the
private acronyms like MCPPP, MMP, MPIP, MCMP, etc. Per RFC it is MP.
>will not work if the connections are on separate chasis. Can you have a
>MLPPP connection across chasis? How?
That is where 3Com/USR/s 'MPIP' protocol comes in - it allows MP connections
to bundle across chasis. Most vendors have something along these lines -
Lucent has MCPPP, Ascend has MaxStack, etc.
-MZ
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) USR MLPPP with Linux From: MegaZone <megazone@megazone.org> Date: 1998-07-27 16:13:08
Once upon a time Mark R. Lindsey shaped the electrons to say...
>Does USR's MLPPP implementation work with Linux' serial load balancing?
That's MP - not MLPPP. And no. MP is a specific protocol, RFC 1990.
Linux's EQL is NOT MP, and is NOT MP compatible. It is basically a round
robin packet distribution based on multiple physical links having the same
IP endpoints. It was developed to be compatable with Livingston's Multiline
Load Balancing. But it should work with any product that can aggregate
multiple lines based on IP endpoint. I've been told 3Com routers can do this,
but I don't know about the TC or HiPer.
-MZ
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) TCM on Solaris 2.6 From: MegaZone <megazone@megazone.org> Date: 1998-07-27 16:14:28
Once upon a time Brian shaped the electrons to say...
>What do you all think of a JAVA based TCM, that way it wont be so damn
>platform dependant.
I think it sounds like Lucent's PMVision (the product formerly codenamed as
Amber).
-MZ
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Upsizing 3Com's Radius to SQL 6.5 From: Dale E. Reed Jr. <daler@iea-software.com> Date: 1998-07-27 16:42:57
Jeff Binkley wrote:
>
> As promised I completed testing the upsizing of 3Com's RADIUS software
> to SQL Server 6.5 from MS Accessover this past weekend. While the actual
> upsizing of the database from Access to SQL Server went much better than
> my attempts at Sybase 11.5, the end results were still a failure. It
> appears 3Com has hard coded some MS Access specific routines into
> their radius.exe executable file, which are not SQL 92 compliant
> calls. Thus it can see the tables (I changed the ODBC pointer to
> the new SQL database and added the appropriate security fields) but
> it fials trying some SQLexec calls. I'd sure like to see more info
> on this from 3Com. 3rd party RADIUS solutions are looking better
> all of the time. Now if they'd offer a competitive upgrade, I
> might bite...
If the 3Com liscense is transferable, send me Email and we'll discuss
options. I know RadiusNT works on MS Access, SQL Server, Sybase and
Oracle. It is funny how different MS Access and SQL Server are
from a client's perspetive. Some people just assume that if its works
with ODBC and Access it work work with all of them. :(
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Subject:(usr-tc) USR-TC testing service From: Mark R. Lindsey <mark@vielle.datasys.net> Date: 1998-07-27 17:27:37
Howdy,
If a service were created to do regression testing on USR-TC equipment,
would your firm subscribe? I'm imagining that such a group might
try to procure a variety of equipment, then test the equipment and
new firmware upgrades against older versions. Subscribers would get
tech support, and regular updates on firmware releases (e.g., what each
works with, what it won't work with, how much memory you need, problems
with different modem brands, potential problems, &c.).
So, would you subscribe? If so, how much could you afford to pay for
it?
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On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Randy Cosby wrote:
|Thanks. Are the radius reply attributes being ignored?
I had not tested. But you give a good ideia. I will test it here.
BTW, witch radius are you using?
- Marcelo
|
|
|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
|> [mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Marcelo Souza
|> Sent: Monday, July 27, 1998 12:12 PM
|> To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
|> Subject: Re: (usr-tc) Timeouts..
|>
|>
|>
|> On ARC you can do:
|>
|> HiPer>> set usER default idLE_TIMEOUT
|> or
|> HiPer>> set useR default seSSION_TIMEOUT
|>
|> Here by safe I also put in the modem string S19=30.
|>
|> - Marcelo
|>
|> On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Randy Cosby wrote:
|>
|> |Is anyone applying Session-Timeout and Idle-Timeout's with TC racks
|> |(netserver or
|> |HiperArc) via Radius? Mine seem to be ignored. Is there a default user
|> |timeout/idle timeout that can be set on the HiperARC?
|> |
|> |thanks,
|> |
|> |Randy Cosby <dcosby@infowest.com>
|> |Vice President
|> |InfoWest Global Internet Services, Inc.
|> |(435)674-0165 http://www.infowest.com
|> |
|>
|> - Marcelo
|>
|>
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Subject:(usr-tc) Upsizing 3Com's Radius to SQL 6.5 From: Jeff Binkley <jeff.binkley@asacomp.com> Date: 1998-07-27 19:06:00
As promised I completed testing the upsizing of 3Com's RADIUS software
to SQL Server 6.5 from MS Accessover this past weekend. While the actual
upsizing of the database from Access to SQL Server went much better than
my attempts at Sybase 11.5, the end results were still a failure. It
appears 3Com has hard coded some MS Access specific routines into
their radius.exe executable file, which are not SQL 92 compliant
calls. Thus it can see the tables (I changed the ODBC pointer to
the new SQL database and added the appropriate security fields) but
it fials trying some SQLexec calls. I'd sure like to see more info
on this from 3Com. 3rd party RADIUS solutions are looking better
all of the time. Now if they'd offer a competitive upgrade, I
might bite...
Jeff Binkley
ASA Network Computing
> I have a trunk T-1 when connected to a dual T-1, Quad modems and netserver
> bundle,
> I get X2 and V.90, 56K.
>
> When I move the T-1 to a DSP on a hyper bundle chassis, only V.34, 33.6bps.
Probably need to restore defaults on the HDM. I have had similar
instances when flashing new code will put the settings for v.90, x2, etc
in a disable mode. Check the 'modulation settings' or something like that
via TCM on the modems of the HDM. You'll probably see a whole bunch of
disabled features. A full "restore from defaults" on the HDM should fix
it.
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Subject:Re:(usr-tc) Support for "Shotgun" technology? From: Lon R. Stockton, Jr. <lon@moonstar.com> Date: 1998-07-27 20:10:22
I've got the HiPer starter bundle (2 dsp & 1 arc), and have upgraded
the new code.
I got a Diamond SupraSonic II dual-line shotgun modem.
It worked out of the box; I didn't have to do anything special to
either.
Lon Stockton
MoonStar
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998 jcusmano@westcon.com wrote:
> I have been on hold with 3Com Tech Support for around 2 hours for info on the
> Diamon Shotgun. When I find out more info, I'll send it to all of you unless
> someone else can help us out?
>
>
> ____________________Reply Separator____________________
> Subject: (usr-tc) Support for "Shotgun" technology?
> Author: MIME:dpm@netcetera.com
> Date: 7/23/98 4:23 PM
>
> Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I couldn't find anything on the 3Com web site.
>
> Are there any versions of the NetServer and/or HyperArc software that
> support Diamon/Supra's "Shotgun" protocol?
>
> The Diamond web site says:
>
> "Shotgun technology is simple for ISPs to implement at the central site
> because ot fully supports both the MP+ and MLPPP protocols found on the
> majority of central site equipment. Successful tests of Shotgun have
> already been completed on Ascend, Cisco, 3Com and Livingston equipment."
> ^^^^
>
> Our TCS boxes use T1 rather than PRI, if that makes a difference...
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Dave Martin Netcetera, Inc. dpm@netcetera.com
> "Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers"
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
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Idle time out does work with the radius server. If for any reason it is
not working for you, let me know the version of the hiper arc code and if
possible get me a snoop trace of the authentication.
krish
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On Mon, 27 Jul 1998 blh@texas.net wrote:
> In texasnet.usr-tc, you wrote:
> >Yes there is a default user on the hiper arc where you can set the idle
> >and session timeout
> >
> >set net user default idle " "
> >
> >krish
>
> My question is why do the HiPer's not accept the standard radius attribute
> of Idle-Timeout ?
>
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Web Sites and HiperArc. From: Tatai SV Krishnan <tkrishna@bubba.ae.usr.com> Date: 1998-07-27 21:23:42
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Mark Pansing wrote:
>
> Having some problems with the HiperArc and retrieval of certain websites.
> If our users call in and are dynamically assigned a ip address from the
> HiperArcs pool they are not able to access certain websites, however if I
> assign them an ip address from the dial up pool (that noone is using) in
> radius(Framed-Address = ###.###.###.###), they can access the website
> without a problem.
>
What is the mtu of these users?
make sure the mtu is set to 1500
krish
> The HiperArc is running V4.0.29 with RIP off. The websites that we are
> having problems with are:
> yp.ameritech.com, www.compaq.com, and www.schwab.com.
>
> Has anyone got any ideas or has heard of this?
>
> Mark Pansing
> Infinet Engineering Staff
> (614) 848-4638 x203
> markp@infinet.com
>
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On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Walt Gnann wrote:
> Thanks for the correction, MZ. I followed the instructions at
> http://interproc.ae.usr.com (thanks Tatai) and we're in the process of
> testing it now. Part of the instructions indicated that the Netserver
> should be at the same software revision. Is that necessary? What problems
> can I expect? I have two Netservers at 3.5.34 and three at 3.6.28 with the
> MPIP server on 3.6.28.
>
Yes it is necessary that you have your NETServer running the same version
of code. 3.5.x and 3.6.x have some changes in the MPIP code. This
changes may cause the NETServer not to accept MPIP calls during load and
may also experience some crash. So we do advice you to have the same
version of the code.
>Any idea on when the HyperArc is going to be able to
> create MP links across the Netsevers? Kinda defeats the purpose of MP if
> you have mixed situation like myself.
HiPer arc will support MPIP in version 4.1 - This code is in beta
currently
krish
>
> Thanks,
>
> Walt
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MegaZone <megazone@megazone.org>
> To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com>
> Date: Monday, July 27, 1998 7:11 PM
> Subject: Re: (usr-tc) MLPPP
>
>
> >Once upon a time Walt Gnann shaped the electrons to say...
> >>Just a quick question on MLPPP. We can successfully connect and maintain
> a
> >
> >That's "MP" - please don't call it MLPPP, it gets confused with all of the
> >private acronyms like MCPPP, MMP, MPIP, MCMP, etc. Per RFC it is MP.
> >
> >>will not work if the connections are on separate chasis. Can you have a
> >>MLPPP connection across chasis? How?
> >
> >That is where 3Com/USR/s 'MPIP' protocol comes in - it allows MP
> connections
> >to bundle across chasis. Most vendors have something along these lines -
> >Lucent has MCPPP, Ascend has MaxStack, etc.
> >
> >-MZ
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) HiperARC or Netserver? From: Lee Reese <lee@gwinnett.com> Date: 1998-07-27 23:38:12
If you can get it out of them, get it.
This brings me to another question with the Netserver...
Does anyone know about a bug in the Netserver in which if you have over
23 analog and digital connections on a chassis (Latest Firmware on 2059
Bundle) the ISDN connectivity becomes unstable?
Someone told me about this a week ago. We were having problems with
ISDN Connections on our TC chassis, so we unplugged one PRI from the
main chassis and the problem apparently went away. No complaints from
ISDN Customers in a week.
Lee Reese
FBSD wrote:
>
> After months of continuous problems with our two NETServerI/16, our 3Com
> vendor has agreed to replace them with:
>
> 1. TC Hub
> 2. Quad modems,
> 3. dual PRI card
> 4. Netserver card.
>
> I've read in this list that people should be purchasing HiperARC (?)
> instead of the Netserver card. Is this correct? All we want is a stable
> dial-up pool of modems. Should we request a HiperARC card from our vendor
> instead of a Netserver card? Thanx in advance for any pointers.
>
> fbsd
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) HiperARC or Netserver? From: Lee Reese <lee@gwinnett.com> Date: 1998-07-27 23:38:12
If you can get it out of them, get it.
This brings me to another question with the Netserver...
Does anyone know about a bug in the Netserver in which if you have over
23 analog and digital connections on a chassis (Latest Firmware on 2059
Bundle) the ISDN connectivity becomes unstable?
Someone told me about this a week ago. We were having problems with
ISDN Connections on our TC chassis, so we unplugged one PRI from the
main chassis and the problem apparently went away. No complaints from
ISDN Customers in a week.
Lee Reese
FBSD wrote:
>
> After months of continuous problems with our two NETServerI/16, our 3Com
> vendor has agreed to replace them with:
>
> 1. TC Hub
> 2. Quad modems,
> 3. dual PRI card
> 4. Netserver card.
>
> I've read in this list that people should be purchasing HiperARC (?)
> instead of the Netserver card. Is this correct? All we want is a stable
> dial-up pool of modems. Should we request a HiperARC card from our vendor
> instead of a Netserver card? Thanx in advance for any pointers.
>
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No its not there in the netserver.
krish
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On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Randy Cosby wrote:
> Is there a similar command on the NetServers? I'm going to play with the
> radius / hiper today and see if I can get some "snoops".
>
> Randy
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> > [mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Tatai SV Krishnan
> > Sent: Monday, July 27, 1998 12:28 AM
> > To: Randy Cosby
> > Cc: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> > Subject: Re: (usr-tc) Timeouts..
> >
> >
> > Yes there is a default user on the hiper arc where you can set the idle
> > and session timeout
> >
> > set net user default idle " "
> >
> > krish
> >
> > -----------------------------------------
> > \ T.S.V. Krishnan \
> > \ Network System Engineer \ ( : - : )
> > \ 3Com ............ \
> > ----------------------------------------------/
> > tkrishna@bubba.ae.usr.com
> > ----------------------------/ http://interproc.ae.usr.com ----/
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> > http://interproc.ae.usr.com/tkb.html
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------\
> > Any Sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable for a feature.
> > - Rick Kulawiec
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------/
> >
> > On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Randy Cosby wrote:
> >
> > > Is anyone applying Session-Timeout and Idle-Timeout's with TC racks
> > > (netserver or
> > > HiperArc) via Radius? Mine seem to be ignored. Is there a default user
> > > timeout/idle timeout that can be set on the HiperARC?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > Randy Cosby <dcosby@infowest.com>
> > > Vice President
> > > InfoWest Global Internet Services, Inc.
> > > (435)674-0165 http://www.infowest.com
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Upsizing 3Com's Radius to SQL 6.5 From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-28 07:44:45
On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Jeff Binkley wrote:
>
> As promised I completed testing the upsizing of 3Com's RADIUS software
> to SQL Server 6.5 from MS Accessover this past weekend. While the actual
> upsizing of the database from Access to SQL Server went much better than
> my attempts at Sybase 11.5, the end results were still a failure. It
> appears 3Com has hard coded some MS Access specific routines into
> their radius.exe executable file, which are not SQL 92 compliant
> calls. Thus it can see the tables (I changed the ODBC pointer to
> the new SQL database and added the appropriate security fields) but
> it fials trying some SQLexec calls. I'd sure like to see more info
> on this from 3Com. 3rd party RADIUS solutions are looking better
> all of the time. Now if they'd offer a competitive upgrade, I
> might bite...
You may want to check out the Radiator product http://www.open.com.su/.
It supports 3com Vendor Specific Attributes, Dynamic IP filters, just
about *any* database (including sybase AND MS SQL), and alot of other
features that make it very attractive.
I am trying this out right now, and so far its looking really good.
Radiator also offers integration with many popular ISP billing packages,
and that's our next step.
Brian
>
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) HiperARC or Netserver? From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-28 07:46:20
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, FBSD wrote:
>
> After months of continuous problems with our two NETServerI/16, our 3Com
> vendor has agreed to replace them with:
>
> 1. TC Hub
> 2. Quad modems,
> 3. dual PRI card
> 4. Netserver card.
>
> I've read in this list that people should be purchasing HiperARC (?)
> instead of the Netserver card. Is this correct? All we want is a stable
> dial-up pool of modems. Should we request a HiperARC card from our vendor
> instead of a Netserver card? Thanx in advance for any pointers.
If they will give it to you then yes. Otherwise I don't *think* that a
Quad/Netserver bundle is worse off than a NetservierI/16
>
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) USR MLPPP with Linux From: Chuck Simons <clsimons@simons.net> Date: 1998-07-28 08:44:51
You guys are doing better than I am, I have yet to get a mp connection up
and running on an NT box.
I think the problem is on the USR side. Everyone on the list tells me, There
is no configuration thats need to be done on the USR box. Hence, they think
it's the NT side.
I have heard to verify that "set mp on" has been done on the USR end.
Problem is, "set mp on" generates an error when I type it in after telneting
to the netserver.
Any ideas?
Chuck..
-----Original Message-----
>Once upon a time Mark R. Lindsey shaped the electrons to say...
>>Does USR's MLPPP implementation work with Linux' serial load balancing?
>
>That's MP - not MLPPP. And no. MP is a specific protocol, RFC 1990.
>
>Linux's EQL is NOT MP, and is NOT MP compatible. It is basically a round
>robin packet distribution based on multiple physical links having the same
>IP endpoints. It was developed to be compatable with Livingston's
Multiline
>Load Balancing. But it should work with any product that can aggregate
>multiple lines based on IP endpoint. I've been told 3Com routers can do
this,
>but I don't know about the TC or HiPer.
>
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EQL (load balancing) from Linux is doable with the netservers. You can
manually start pppd daemons, or use a program like diald to automate the
dialup process. Check the diald mailing list archives for details on this.
Also, here's a link to do it the proper way, with MP. I havent tried this
method but it sounds like it'll work, and its more efficient than EQL.
http://mp.ins-coin.de/
- lv
Subject:(usr-tc) Switch Type From: Eric Forcey <eric@psnw.com> Date: 1998-07-28 09:00:45
Anyone ever heard of a GTD5 switch?
I'm trying to turn up a new circuit in GTE Calif territory and the switch
they are using is a GTD5.
I have a call into support, and they think that it is the same as a
DMS100, however they were not sure.
I show carrier on the line, however I am getting an error light on the
chassis that of amber in the LPBK/D-ALM position. Support says that it is
a loss of D-Channel, but this is not a PRI circuit, it is a CT1 so the
D-Channel shouldn't matter there.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Eric
Subject:(usr-tc) NMC 10bT Port Dead From: Kevin Benton <s1kevin@tims.net> Date: 1998-07-28 09:31:48
FYI for y'all:
If an NMC is powered up without the Ethernet (10bT) cable plugged in, the
Ethernet (10bT) port will be disabled even if an Etherent cable is plugged
in later. From what I'm told, if a cable is unplugged, then plugged back
in, the port is *not* disabled. A feature request has been added to not
disable the Ethernet port on power up if no cable is present even though
the LAN Power-Up setting is Enable.
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Subject:(usr-tc) Web Sites and HiperArc. From: Mark Pansing <markp@infinet.com> Date: 1998-07-28 10:11:32
Having some problems with the HiperArc and retrieval of certain websites.
If our users call in and are dynamically assigned a ip address from the
HiperArcs pool they are not able to access certain websites, however if I
assign them an ip address from the dial up pool (that noone is using) in
radius(Framed-Address = ###.###.###.###), they can access the website
without a problem.
The HiperArc is running V4.0.29 with RIP off. The websites that we are
having problems with are:
yp.ameritech.com, www.compaq.com, and www.schwab.com.
Has anyone got any ideas or has heard of this?
Mark Pansing
Infinet Engineering Staff
(614) 848-4638 x203
markp@infinet.com
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Web Sites and HiperArc. From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-28 10:20:39
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Mark Pansing wrote:
>
> Having some problems with the HiperArc and retrieval of certain websites.
> If our users call in and are dynamically assigned a ip address from the
> HiperArcs pool they are not able to access certain websites, however if I
> assign them an ip address from the dial up pool (that noone is using) in
> radius(Framed-Address = ###.###.###.###), they can access the website
> without a problem.
Post the radius entry they are getting assigned.
Also tell us how your ip pools on the arc is setup.
>
> The HiperArc is running V4.0.29 with RIP off. The websites that we are
> having problems with are:
> yp.ameritech.com, www.compaq.com, and www.schwab.com.
>
> Has anyone got any ideas or has heard of this?
>
> Mark Pansing
> Infinet Engineering Staff
> (614) 848-4638 x203
> markp@infinet.com
>
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Has anyone been able to get anymore information from the netserver when it
makes a mpip connection? This is what I get for the second channel.
Acct-Session-Id = "0f000062"
User-Name = "Pfhege"
NAS-IP-Address = 207.136.192.240
NAS-Port = 6000
Acct-Status-Type = Stop
Acct-Session-Time = 75
Acct-Terminate-Cause = Lost-Carrier
Acct-Authentic = 0
Called-Station-Id = ""
USR-Unauthenticated-Time = 0
NAS-Identifier = "usr0.noc"
Acct-Input-Octets = 331
Acct-Output-Octets = 1361
Acct-Input-Packets = 90
Acct-Output-Packets = 113
Acct-Multi-Session-Id = "0000002c"
Service-Type = Framed-User
Framed-Protocol = PPP
Framed-IP-Address = 209.198.86.32
Acct-Delay-Time = 0
I'm looking for information like what nas it really came from, what port
it used, the slot/span/channel used, etc. Is there a way to do this?
Thanks
-Dale
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Switch Type From: Brian McIntire <brian_mcintire@mw.3com.com> Date: 1998-07-28 11:11:37
The GTD5 more closely resembles an AT&T 5ESS switch. I had about 20 of
these switches when I worked for sprint. W econfigured all chassis PRI's
for 5ESS
Eric Forcey <eric@psnw.com> on 07/28/98 11:00:45 AM
Please respond to usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
cc:
Anyone ever heard of a GTD5 switch?
I'm trying to turn up a new circuit in GTE Calif territory and the switch
they are using is a GTD5.
I have a call into support, and they think that it is the same as a
DMS100, however they were not sure.
I show carrier on the line, however I am getting an error light on the
chassis that of amber in the LPBK/D-ALM position. Support says that it is
a loss of D-Channel, but this is not a PRI circuit, it is a CT1 so the
D-Channel shouldn't matter there.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Eric
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> I'm trying to turn up a new circuit in GTE Calif territory and the switch
> they are using is a GTD5.
>
> I have a call into support, and they think that it is the same as a
> DMS100, however they were not sure.
>
> I show carrier on the line, however I am getting an error light on the
> chassis that of amber in the LPBK/D-ALM position. Support says that it is
> a loss of D-Channel, but this is not a PRI circuit, it is a CT1 so the
> D-Channel shouldn't matter there.
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Subject:(usr-tc) HiperARC or Netserver? From: FBSD <fbsd@typhoon.co.jp> Date: 1998-07-28 11:36:27
After months of continuous problems with our two NETServerI/16, our 3Com
vendor has agreed to replace them with:
1. TC Hub
2. Quad modems,
3. dual PRI card
4. Netserver card.
I've read in this list that people should be purchasing HiperARC (?)
instead of the Netserver card. Is this correct? All we want is a stable
dial-up pool of modems. Should we request a HiperARC card from our vendor
instead of a Netserver card? Thanx in advance for any pointers.
fbsd
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Web Sites and HiperArc. From: Mark Pansing <markp@infinet.com> Date: 1998-07-28 11:53:36
Sure enough. It was set to 576. Thought we had set this to 1500 along
time ago. Everything seems to be working fine. Thanks all.
> >
> What is the mtu of these users?
> make sure the mtu is set to 1500
>
> krish
>
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) MLPPP From: Walt Gnann <wgnann@islc.net> Date: 1998-07-28 12:01:56
Thanks for the correction, MZ. I followed the instructions at
http://interproc.ae.usr.com (thanks Tatai) and we're in the process of
testing it now. Part of the instructions indicated that the Netserver
should be at the same software revision. Is that necessary? What problems
can I expect? I have two Netservers at 3.5.34 and three at 3.6.28 with the
MPIP server on 3.6.28. Any idea on when the HyperArc is going to be able to
create MP links across the Netsevers? Kinda defeats the purpose of MP if
you have mixed situation like myself.
Thanks,
Walt
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-----Original Message-----
>Once upon a time Walt Gnann shaped the electrons to say...
>>Just a quick question on MLPPP. We can successfully connect and maintain
a
>
>That's "MP" - please don't call it MLPPP, it gets confused with all of the
>private acronyms like MCPPP, MMP, MPIP, MCMP, etc. Per RFC it is MP.
>
>>will not work if the connections are on separate chasis. Can you have a
>>MLPPP connection across chasis? How?
>
>That is where 3Com/USR/s 'MPIP' protocol comes in - it allows MP
connections
>to bundle across chasis. Most vendors have something along these lines -
>Lucent has MCPPP, Ascend has MaxStack, etc.
>
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The output you sent looks more like an HARC connection than a netserver. I
am looking to get this detailed information from the netserver when it
makes an mpip connection. I am also using Radiator and I've been getting
VSA's on the non mpip connections. Thanks.
-Dale
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Brian wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Dale Hege wrote:
>
> > Has anyone been able to get anymore information from the netserver when it
> > makes a mpip connection? This is what I get for the second channel.
> >
> > Acct-Session-Id = "0f000062"
> > User-Name = "Pfhege"
> > NAS-IP-Address = 207.136.192.240
> > NAS-Port = 6000
> > Acct-Status-Type = Stop
> > Acct-Session-Time = 75
> > Acct-Terminate-Cause = Lost-Carrier
> > Acct-Authentic = 0
> > Called-Station-Id = ""
> > USR-Unauthenticated-Time = 0
> > NAS-Identifier = "usr0.noc"
> > Acct-Input-Octets = 331
> > Acct-Output-Octets = 1361
> > Acct-Input-Packets = 90
> > Acct-Output-Packets = 113
> > Acct-Multi-Session-Id = "0000002c"
> > Service-Type = Framed-User
> > Framed-Protocol = PPP
> > Framed-IP-Address = 209.198.86.32
> > Acct-Delay-Time = 0
> >
> > I'm looking for information like what nas it really came from, what port
> > it used, the slot/span/channel used, etc. Is there a way to do this?
>
> yes, you need support for vendor specific attributes.
>
> We are using Radiator http://www.open.com.au/radiator
>
> and ours looks like this:
>
> Fri Jul 24 09:23:52 1998
> User-Name = "syrinx"
> Client-Id = 208.206.76.35
> Acct-Status-Type = Start
> Acct-Session-Id = "37471204"
> Acct-Delay-Time = 0
> Acct-Authentic = RADIUS
> User-Service-Type = Framed-User
> NAS-Port-Type = 0
> Client-Port-Id = 1299
> USR-Mystery-1 = "<0><0><8><251>"
> USR-Chassis-Call-Slot = 5
> USR-Chassis-Call-Span = 1
> USR-Chassis-Call-Channel = 19
> USR-Unauthenticated-Time = 7
> Calling-Station-Id = "3183752813"
> Called-Station-Id = "3182134600"
> USR-Modulation-Type = x2
> USR-Simplified-MNP-Levels = ccittV42SREJ
> USR-Simplified-V42bis-Usage = ccittV42bis
> USR-Connect-Speed = 33411656
> Framed-Protocol = PPP
> Framed-Address = 208.214.44.124
> USR-MP-MRRU = 0
> USR-Mystery-2 = "<0><0><0><2>"
> Acct-Multi-Session-Id = "43d1"
> Timestamp = 901290232
>
>
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Radius questions From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-28 12:16:03
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Stefanita Valcu wrote:
> Hi,
> I am looking for a radius version able to spawn an external program which
> can give some suplementarry attributes to the NAS. I.e. we have users with
> access only between 11pm and 8am and I want that the external program to
> give to the radius server something like session-timeout= xx where xx in
> the number of seconds until 8am. This program could be a real-time
> interface to a SQL database written in perl.
Radiator supports a check attribute that allows you to limit access for
any time/date range. And its already integrated with SQL, and fully
extensable via perl http://www.open.com.au/radiator
>
> The second question is if there are patches for USR Vendor Specific
> Attributes for the Cistron Radius. Actually we are using Merit which is
> a little too slow. The NAS-es are USR Total Control, cisco and
> Livingston.
>
> I am looking only for free software running on Unix.
>
> TIA,
>
> -vsv
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Radius questions From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-28 12:16:03
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Stefanita Valcu wrote:
> Hi,
> I am looking for a radius version able to spawn an external program which
> can give some suplementarry attributes to the NAS. I.e. we have users with
> access only between 11pm and 8am and I want that the external program to
> give to the radius server something like session-timeout= xx where xx in
> the number of seconds until 8am. This program could be a real-time
> interface to a SQL database written in perl.
Radiator supports a check attribute that allows you to limit access for
any time/date range. And its already integrated with SQL, and fully
extensable via perl http://www.open.com.au/radiator
>
> The second question is if there are patches for USR Vendor Specific
> Attributes for the Cistron Radius. Actually we are using Merit which is
> a little too slow. The NAS-es are USR Total Control, cisco and
> Livingston.
>
> I am looking only for free software running on Unix.
>
> TIA,
>
> -vsv
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Subject:RE: (usr-tc) Timeouts.. From: Randy Cosby <dcosby@infowest.com> Date: 1998-07-28 12:55:29
Is there a similar command on the NetServers? I'm going to play with the
radius / hiper today and see if I can get some "snoops".
Randy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> [mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Tatai SV Krishnan
> Sent: Monday, July 27, 1998 12:28 AM
> To: Randy Cosby
> Cc: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> Subject: Re: (usr-tc) Timeouts..
>
>
> Yes there is a default user on the hiper arc where you can set the idle
> and session timeout
>
> set net user default idle " "
>
> krish
>
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>
> On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Randy Cosby wrote:
>
> > Is anyone applying Session-Timeout and Idle-Timeout's with TC racks
> > (netserver or
> > HiperArc) via Radius? Mine seem to be ignored. Is there a default user
> > timeout/idle timeout that can be set on the HiperARC?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Randy Cosby <dcosby@infowest.com>
> > Vice President
> > InfoWest Global Internet Services, Inc.
> > (435)674-0165 http://www.infowest.com
> >
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) NMC 10bT Port Dead From: Charles Hill <chill@ionet.net> Date: 1998-07-28 13:41:54
I think the NMC tries to autoselect the media type (AUI, BNC, TP) when it
starts up. If no cable is present, what is the default? I want the
ability to set the default media type to TP. -CH
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Kevin Benton wrote:
> FYI for y'all:
>
> If an NMC is powered up without the Ethernet (10bT) cable plugged in, the
> Ethernet (10bT) port will be disabled even if an Etherent cable is plugged
> in later. From what I'm told, if a cable is unplugged, then plugged back
> in, the port is *not* disabled. A feature request has been added to not
> disable the Ethernet port on power up if no cable is present even though
> the LAN Power-Up setting is Enable.
>
> Kevin Benton
> Network Engineer
> SOTA Technologies
>
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Brian was heard to say:
> USR-Mystery-1 = "<0><0><8><251>"
> USR-Mystery-2 = "<0><0><0><2>"
#1 is USR-MP-EDO
#2 is USR-MP-LinkCount
(Yes, even USR's RADIUS server (4.3.11) complains about those two as I never
have put them in the dictionary. [0x9025 and 0x9026, IIRC])
--Ricky
Subject:(usr-tc) Quad Digital From: David OBrien <growler@ac.net> Date: 1998-07-28 14:44:06
I've got a 2059 chassis with 6 digital and 6 A/D quad modem cards in it.
the 6 digital are fed calls by a CT1 and the 6 A/D are fed calls by analog
lines into the analog nics. the First digital call in slot 2 will not
answer the phone i've switched card around triple checked all the settings
rebooted the chassis to no avail. Anyone seen this?
U.S. Robotics 17-Slot Chassis
tc0 <205.138.54.75>
1 3COM PRI-T1/E1 NAC 4.0.0 4096 1024 0000000000000000 4.2.1
2 3COM Quad V.34 Digital Modem NAC 3.0.0 0 0 0000000110001000 5.10.9
3 3COM Quad V.34 Digital Modem NAC 3.0.0 0 0 0000000110001000 5.10.9
4 3COM Quad V.34 Digital Modem NAC 3.0.0 0 0 0000000110001000 5.10.9
5 3COM Quad V.34 Digital Modem NAC 3.0.0 0 0 0000000110001000 5.10.9
6 3COM Quad V.34 Digital Modem NAC 3.0.0 0 0 0000000110001000 5.10.9
7 3COM Quad V.34 Digital Modem NAC 3.0.0 0 0 0000000110001000 5.10.9
8 3COM Quad V.34 Digital-Analog Modem NAC 3.0.0 0 0 0000000110001000 5.10.9
9 3COM Quad V.34 Digital-Analog Modem NAC 3.0.0 0 0 0000000110001000 5.10.9
10 3COM Quad V.34 Digital-Analog Modem NAC 3.0.0 0 0 0000000110001000 5.10.9
11 3COM Quad V.34 Digital-Analog Modem NAC 3.0.0 0 0 0000000110001000 5.10.9
12 3COM Quad V.34 Digital-Analog Modem NAC 3.0.0 0 0 0000000110001000 5.10.9
13 3COM Quad V.34 Digital-Analog Modem NAC 3.0.0 0 0 0000000110001000 5.10.9
16 3COM ISDN NETServer NAC 7.0.0 8192 2048 0000000000000000 3.7.24
17 3COM Network Management Card 3.0 4096 2048 0000000000010000 5.4.95
1 3COM Bellcore Long Haul Dual T1 NIC 4096 1024 0000000000000000
8 3COM Quad Modem Analog NIC v1 0 0 0000000110001000 1.1.0
9 3COM Quad Modem Analog NIC v1 0 0 0000000110001000 1.1.0
10 3COM Quad Modem Analog NIC v1 0 0 0000000110001000 1.1.0
11 3COM Quad Modem Analog NIC v1 0 0 0000000110001000 1.1.0
12 3COM Quad Modem Analog NIC v1 0 0 0000000110001000 1.1.0
13 3COM Quad Modem Analog NIC v1 0 0 0000000110001000 1.1.0
16 3COM High Speed Ethernet (with V.35) NIC 8192 2048 0000000000000000
17 3COM Ethernet NIC 0 0 0000000000000000
TIA
-Dave
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) NMC 10bT Port Dead From: David Bolen <db3l@ans.net> Date: 1998-07-28 14:52:02
Kevin Benton <s1kevin@tims.net> writes:
> If an NMC is powered up without the Ethernet (10bT) cable plugged in, the
> Ethernet (10bT) port will be disabled even if an Etherent cable is plugged
> in later. From what I'm told, if a cable is unplugged, then plugged back
> in, the port is *not* disabled. A feature request has been added to not
> disable the Ethernet port on power up if no cable is present even though
> the LAN Power-Up setting is Enable.
This isn't the ethernet port getting disabled, it's the NMC
auto-detection of the cable type. Unfortunately, in the absence of
any cable, the default is the 10base2 (thinnet) connector, which may
arguably have been somewhat reasonable back in '94, but certainly not
today :-)
This auto-detection is only done at startup, which is why as long as
you have a working cable at startup that you can unplug and replug it
as often as you like while the NMC remains operations.
Also unfortunately there is no way to program in a default connector
(something like what was eventually added to the NETServer code which
used to have the same auto-detect logic), although that's been a
request of mine for a while.
-- David
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Subject:(usr-tc) Modem Problems From: Jason W <jwatkins@iland.net> Date: 1998-07-28 15:00:57
This one has me stumped... On three of our USRTC
chassis, one is using the HiPer Arc, we are having
connection problems. Basically a user will dial in and
after authentication, the error msg..."dial up networking
could not negotiate a compatible set of network protocols
you specified....blablabla" This only happens to 2 or 3
ports on the device. If I have someone physically reset
the card, the problem goes away. Then, the problem
comes back on a different ports. arggg.. I thought
maybe it was due to a problem with the V.90 firmware,
but the most problematic chassis is a HiPer Arc, and
is not even X2 enabled. I have double checked settings
and they all seem to match other modems (DSP's), that
are working, configurations. If anyone has any suggestions
I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks,
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Jason Watkins I-Land Support & NOC Tech
jwatkins@iland.net http://www.iland.net
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Subject:(usr-tc) Filtering Windows File sharing.. From: Randy Cosby <dcosby@infowest.com> Date: 1998-07-28 16:08:08
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Using the cable access router card (a souped-up hiper card, same syntax on
most things), I verified and then applied the following filter to the QAM:1
outgoing interface:
HiPerCMTS>> show filter windows.fil
RULES FOR FILTER /./windows.fil SHOW PROTOCOLS: ALL
#filter
IP:
010 REJECT udp-dst-port = 137;
020 REJECT udp-dst-port = 138;
030 REJECT tcp-dst-port = 139;
040 REJECT udp-src-port = 139;
050 REJECT udp-src-port = 138;
060 REJECT tcp-src-port = 137;
This should block use of windows file sharing:
(from windows nt services file)
nbname 137/udp
nbdatagram 138/udp
nbsession 139/tcp
But, alas, it doesn't. I've tried applying the same filter to the ehternet
incoming interface as well. No luck. Any clues?
Randy Cosby <dcosby@infowest.com>
Vice President
InfoWest Global Internet Services, Inc.
(435)674-0165 http://www.infowest.com
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Subject:(usr-tc) (Fwd) From: Andres Kroonmaa <andre@ml.ee> Date: 1998-07-28 16:56:17
Can't get ARC to speak RIPv2. Our static IP users depend
on that. Strangely, I had it working before, but now that
I upgraded to 4.0.30 and had to delete all my previous
config, I cannot get it working again.
Below is a "show ip network IP"
What's wrong? Where to look?
------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
SHOW IP NETWORK IP SETTINGS:
Interface: eth:1
Network Address: 194.106.96.241/28
Frame Type: ETHERNET_II
Status: ENABLED
Reconfigure Needed: FALSE
Mask: 255.255.255.240
Station: 194.106.96.241
Broadcast Algorithm: IETF
Max Reassembly Size: 3468
IP Routing Protocol: RIPV2
IP RIP Routing Policies:
SEND_ROUTES
SEND_SUBNETS
SPLIT_HORIZON
POISON_REVERSE
FLASH_UPDATE
RIPV2_RECEIVE
IP RIP Authentication Key:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Andres Kroonmaa mail: andre@online.ee
Network Manager
Organization: MicroLink Online Tel: 6308 909
Tallinn, Sakala 19 Pho: +372 6308 909
Estonia, EE0001 http://www.online.ee Fax: +372 6308 901
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject:(usr-tc) (Fwd) From: Andres Kroonmaa <andre@ml.ee> Date: 1998-07-28 16:56:17
Can't get ARC to speak RIPv2. Our static IP users depend
on that. Strangely, I had it working before, but now that
I upgraded to 4.0.30 and had to delete all my previous
config, I cannot get it working again.
Below is a "show ip network IP"
What's wrong? Where to look?
------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
SHOW IP NETWORK IP SETTINGS:
Interface: eth:1
Network Address: 194.106.96.241/28
Frame Type: ETHERNET_II
Status: ENABLED
Reconfigure Needed: FALSE
Mask: 255.255.255.240
Station: 194.106.96.241
Broadcast Algorithm: IETF
Max Reassembly Size: 3468
IP Routing Protocol: RIPV2
IP RIP Routing Policies:
SEND_ROUTES
SEND_SUBNETS
SPLIT_HORIZON
POISON_REVERSE
FLASH_UPDATE
RIPV2_RECEIVE
IP RIP Authentication Key:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Andres Kroonmaa mail: andre@online.ee
Network Manager
Organization: MicroLink Online Tel: 6308 909
Tallinn, Sakala 19 Pho: +372 6308 909
Estonia, EE0001 http://www.online.ee Fax: +372 6308 901
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Subject:RE: (usr-tc) Filtering Windows File sharing.. From: Randy Cosby <dcosby@infowest.com> Date: 1998-07-28 17:28:16
From the CARC command line:
HiPerCMTS>> set interface qam:1 outpUT_FILTER "windows.fil"
HiPerCMTS>> show interface qam:1
INTERFACE qam:1 SETTINGS
Description: GWC QAM Driver
Type: INVALID
Speed: 0
High Speed: 0
Administrative Status: Up
Operational Status: Up
Link Up/Down Traps: ENABLED
Promiscuous Mode: FALSE
Connector Present: TRUE
Filter Access: ON
Last Change: 0d 00:00:49
Input Filter:
Output Filter: windows.fil
HiPerCMTS>>
---
NT box on network looking at the ip of a cable modem:
C:\>net view \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Shared resources at \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
.
Share name Type Used as Comment
C Disk
D Disk
DESKTOP Disk
E Disk
F Disk
G Disk
H Disk
I Disk
J Disk
K Disk
The command completed successfully
C:\>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> [mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of mike
> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 1998 5:12 PM
> To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> Subject: Re: (usr-tc) Filtering Windows File sharing..
>
>
>
> On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Randy Cosby wrote:
>
> >Using the cable access router card (a souped-up hiper card, same
> syntax on
> >most things), I verified and then applied the following filter
> to the QAM:1
> >outgoing interface:
> >
> >HiPerCMTS>> show filter windows.fil
> >
> >RULES FOR FILTER /./windows.fil SHOW PROTOCOLS: ALL
> >#filter
> >IP:
> >010 REJECT udp-dst-port = 137;
> >020 REJECT udp-dst-port = 138;
> >030 REJECT tcp-dst-port = 139;
> >040 REJECT udp-src-port = 139;
> >050 REJECT udp-src-port = 138;
> >060 REJECT tcp-src-port = 137;
> >
> >This should block use of windows file sharing:
> >(from windows nt services file)
> >nbname 137/udp
> >nbdatagram 138/udp
> >nbsession 139/tcp
> >
> >But, alas, it doesn't. I've tried applying the same filter to
> the ehternet
> >incoming interface as well. No luck. Any clues?
> >
> >
> Check that filter access is on for the QAM port..
> -M
>
>
>
>
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) USR MLPPP with Linux From: mike <mwronski@coredump.ae.usr.com> Date: 1998-07-28 17:59:09
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Chuck Simons wrote:
>You guys are doing better than I am, I have yet to get a mp connection up
>and running on an NT box.
>I think the problem is on the USR side. Everyone on the list tells me, There
>is no configuration thats need to be done on the USR box. Hence, they think
>it's the NT side.
>I have heard to verify that "set mp on" has been done on the USR end.
>Problem is, "set mp on" generates an error when I type it in after telneting
>to the netserver.
>
What version of code are you running? Also, do the following and send me
the output..
set debug 0x51
set console
-start logging the screen output
-make an attempt at a MP call.
-Stop logging
reset console
-Mike
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Filtering Windows File sharing.. From: mike <mwronski@coredump.ae.usr.com> Date: 1998-07-28 18:11:32
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Randy Cosby wrote:
>Using the cable access router card (a souped-up hiper card, same syntax on
>most things), I verified and then applied the following filter to the QAM:1
>outgoing interface:
>
>HiPerCMTS>> show filter windows.fil
>
>RULES FOR FILTER /./windows.fil SHOW PROTOCOLS: ALL
>#filter
>IP:
>010 REJECT udp-dst-port = 137;
>020 REJECT udp-dst-port = 138;
>030 REJECT tcp-dst-port = 139;
>040 REJECT udp-src-port = 139;
>050 REJECT udp-src-port = 138;
>060 REJECT tcp-src-port = 137;
>
>This should block use of windows file sharing:
>(from windows nt services file)
>nbname 137/udp
>nbdatagram 138/udp
>nbsession 139/tcp
>
>But, alas, it doesn't. I've tried applying the same filter to the ehternet
>incoming interface as well. No luck. Any clues?
>
>
Check that filter access is on for the QAM port..
-M
Hi,
I am looking for a radius version able to spawn an external program which
can give some suplementarry attributes to the NAS. I.e. we have users with
access only between 11pm and 8am and I want that the external program to
give to the radius server something like session-timeout= xx where xx in
the number of seconds until 8am. This program could be a real-time
interface to a SQL database written in perl.
The second question is if there are patches for USR Vendor Specific
Attributes for the Cistron Radius. Actually we are using Merit which is
a little too slow. The NAS-es are USR Total Control, cisco and
Livingston.
I am looking only for free software running on Unix.
TIA,
-vsv
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Network Administrator, Dynamic Network Technologies
Calea Victoriei 155, bl.D1, sc.7, et.3, sector 1, 71102, Bucuresti, Romania
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Subject:(usr-tc) hub status led From: -=X=- <xlogan@novagate.com> Date: 1998-07-28 22:32:30
Hello
I've been checking on 3com's web site and checking the archives of this
list. I've found some questions and answers about the hub status led on
the NMC, but I want to make sure I understand it.
Right now the LED is red. I've been looking all over trying to find out
why it's red, but there is none that I can find. I've heard it could be
the power supply, but we only have one and it tests OK. I've run the
tests, put the IP's in. I can ping it, I can use TCM to get to it. But
that darn LED is red and it is starting to bug me :-)
Any indication of why it would be red? My next step it to try to swap it
with a NMC here and see what happens.
Also, as long as I am mentioning it, right now I have all green lights
(except for that one red led) and the PRI seems to be set fine and
GTE can trace the call to the trunk, but when you dial the lead
number you get a fast busy. I've done the set s# active and modem on and
some other things, but it's still fast busy. Could this hub status light
have anything to do with it? I'll be calling GTE again tomorrow to see if
they can run some more tests, but I don't want to yell at them when it's
something at my end. ;-)
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Dan Allen - System Admin.
-Novagate Communications Corp.-
Hello,
I am currently using MRTG to monitor modem usage on a bunch of netserver
based TC hubs. The setup I am using was working out quite well for me
until I added a hiper chassis. The method I was using before
(interfaces.ifNumber.0 - 1) doesn't seem to work on the HiperARC as it
reports all interfaces regarless if they are active or not. Has anyone
found a easy way to monitor these things? For reference here is the
section of mrtg.cfg that I am currently using to monitor one of our modem
pools ( 3 48 port hubs).
Target[tcpool]: .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0&.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0:public@netserver1
+ .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0&.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0:public@netserver2 +
.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0&.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0:public@netserver3 - 3
MaxBytes[tcpool]: 144
Options[tcpool]: gauge, growright
Unscaled[tcpool]: dwmy
Ylegend[tcpool]: Users Online
ShortLegend[tcpool]: Users
Legend1[tcpool]: Users Online
LegendO[tcpool]:
Title[tcpool]: TC Modem Pool
PageTop[tcpool]: <H1>Users online</H1>
Horace Demmink
PathWay Computing
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) MRTG with HiperARC From: Frank Basso <frank@got.net> Date: 1998-07-29 09:32:56
I think all of us would like a copy.
-Frank
-----Original Message-----
Cc: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com>
>On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Horace Demmink wrote:
>
>> I am currently using MRTG to monitor modem usage on a bunch of netserver
>> based TC hubs. The setup I am using was working out quite well for me
>> until I added a hiper chassis. The method I was using before
>> (interfaces.ifNumber.0 - 1) doesn't seem to work on the HiperARC as it
>> reports all interfaces regarless if they are active or not. Has anyone
>> found a easy way to monitor these things? For reference here is the
>> section of mrtg.cfg that I am currently using to monitor one of our modem
>> pools ( 3 48 port hubs).
>>
>> Target[tcpool]: .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0&.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0:public@netserver1
>> + .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0&.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0:public@netserver2 +
>> .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0&.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0:public@netserver3 - 3
>> MaxBytes[tcpool]: 144
>> Options[tcpool]: gauge, growright
>> Unscaled[tcpool]: dwmy
>> Ylegend[tcpool]: Users Online
>> ShortLegend[tcpool]: Users
>> Legend1[tcpool]: Users Online
>> LegendO[tcpool]:
>> Title[tcpool]: TC Modem Pool
>> PageTop[tcpool]: <H1>Users online</H1>
>
>Hey - this is great! I'm implementing it on our system. :) Thanks! I'd
>be happy to find out how you do that with the the ARC's as well. If they
>reply directly to you but don't put in on the list, could you forward a
>copy to me? Thanks :)
>
>Kevin
>
>E-Mail: s1kevin@tims.net
>Web: http://users.sota-oh.com/~s1kevin/
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notice
>
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) MRTG with HiperARC From: Kevin Benton <s1kevin@tims.net> Date: 1998-07-29 10:52:17
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Horace Demmink wrote:
> I am currently using MRTG to monitor modem usage on a bunch of netserver
> based TC hubs. The setup I am using was working out quite well for me
> until I added a hiper chassis. The method I was using before
> (interfaces.ifNumber.0 - 1) doesn't seem to work on the HiperARC as it
> reports all interfaces regarless if they are active or not. Has anyone
> found a easy way to monitor these things? For reference here is the
> section of mrtg.cfg that I am currently using to monitor one of our modem
> pools ( 3 48 port hubs).
>
> Target[tcpool]: .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0&.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0:public@netserver1
> + .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0&.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0:public@netserver2 +
> .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0&.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0:public@netserver3 - 3
> MaxBytes[tcpool]: 144
> Options[tcpool]: gauge, growright
> Unscaled[tcpool]: dwmy
> Ylegend[tcpool]: Users Online
> ShortLegend[tcpool]: Users
> Legend1[tcpool]: Users Online
> LegendO[tcpool]:
> Title[tcpool]: TC Modem Pool
> PageTop[tcpool]: <H1>Users online</H1>
Hey - this is great! I'm implementing it on our system. :) Thanks! I'd
be happy to find out how you do that with the the ARC's as well. If they
reply directly to you but don't put in on the list, could you forward a
copy to me? Thanks :)
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) MRTG with HiperARC From: Kevin Benton <s1kevin@tims.net> Date: 1998-07-29 12:33:40
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Horace Demmink wrote:
> I am currently using MRTG to monitor modem usage on a bunch of netserver
> based TC hubs. The setup I am using was working out quite well for me
> until I added a hiper chassis. The method I was using before
> (interfaces.ifNumber.0 - 1) doesn't seem to work on the HiperARC as it
> reports all interfaces regarless if they are active or not. Has anyone
> found a easy way to monitor these things? For reference here is the
> section of mrtg.cfg that I am currently using to monitor one of our modem
> pools ( 3 48 port hubs).
>
> Target[tcpool]: .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0&.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0:public@netserver1
> + .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0&.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0:public@netserver2 +
> .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0&.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0:public@netserver3 - 3
Make sure that your community string is correct for the ARC. It will
work, just that you need to be sure you have access to that chassis
from your machineand that you've got the right community. I learned how
to count users from the above, and with what you showed me, I applied it
to my own NetServers and ARC's. This is great! :)
Kevin
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) MRTG with HiperARC From: Kevin Benton <s1kevin@tims.net> Date: 1998-07-29 12:39:40
A copy of ???
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Frank Basso wrote:
> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 09:32:56 -0700
> From: Frank Basso <frank@got.net>
> Reply-To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> Subject: Re: (usr-tc) MRTG with HiperARC
>
> I think all of us would like a copy.
>
> -Frank
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Benton <s1kevin@tims.net>
> To: Horace Demmink <horace@pathwaynet.com>
> Cc: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com>
> Date: Wednesday, July 29, 1998 8:17 AM
> Subject: Re: (usr-tc) MRTG with HiperARC
>
>
> >On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Horace Demmink wrote:
> >
> >> I am currently using MRTG to monitor modem usage on a bunch of netserver
> >> based TC hubs. The setup I am using was working out quite well for me
> >> until I added a hiper chassis. The method I was using before
> >> (interfaces.ifNumber.0 - 1) doesn't seem to work on the HiperARC as it
> >> reports all interfaces regarless if they are active or not. Has anyone
> >> found a easy way to monitor these things? For reference here is the
> >> section of mrtg.cfg that I am currently using to monitor one of our modem
> >> pools ( 3 48 port hubs).
> >>
> >> Target[tcpool]: .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0&.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0:public@netserver1
> >> + .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0&.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0:public@netserver2 +
> >> .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0&.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0:public@netserver3 - 3
> >> MaxBytes[tcpool]: 144
> >> Options[tcpool]: gauge, growright
> >> Unscaled[tcpool]: dwmy
> >> Ylegend[tcpool]: Users Online
> >> ShortLegend[tcpool]: Users
> >> Legend1[tcpool]: Users Online
> >> LegendO[tcpool]:
> >> Title[tcpool]: TC Modem Pool
> >> PageTop[tcpool]: <H1>Users online</H1>
> >
> >Hey - this is great! I'm implementing it on our system. :) Thanks! I'd
> >be happy to find out how you do that with the the ARC's as well. If they
> >reply directly to you but don't put in on the list, could you forward a
> >copy to me? Thanks :)
> >
> >Kevin
> >
> >E-Mail: s1kevin@tims.net
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) MRTG with HiperARC From: David OBrien <growler@ac.net> Date: 1998-07-29 12:55:29
It still didn't work but thanks for the effort.
Liping
-----Original Message-----
[mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Curt Shambeau
Sent: Monday, July 27, 1998 5:24 PM
> I have a trunk T-1 when connected to a dual T-1, Quad modems and netserver
> bundle,
> I get X2 and V.90, 56K.
>
> When I move the T-1 to a DSP on a hyper bundle chassis, only V.34,
33.6bps.
Probably need to restore defaults on the HDM. I have had similar
instances when flashing new code will put the settings for v.90, x2, etc
in a disable mode. Check the 'modulation settings' or something like that
via TCM on the modems of the HDM. You'll probably see a whole bunch of
disabled features. A full "restore from defaults" on the HDM should fix
it.
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It still didn't work but thanks for the effort.
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[mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Curt Shambeau
Sent: Monday, July 27, 1998 5:24 PM
> I have a trunk T-1 when connected to a dual T-1, Quad modems and netserver
> bundle,
> I get X2 and V.90, 56K.
>
> When I move the T-1 to a DSP on a hyper bundle chassis, only V.34,
33.6bps.
Probably need to restore defaults on the HDM. I have had similar
instances when flashing new code will put the settings for v.90, x2, etc
in a disable mode. Check the 'modulation settings' or something like that
via TCM on the modems of the HDM. You'll probably see a whole bunch of
disabled features. A full "restore from defaults" on the HDM should fix
it.
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Subject:(usr-tc) Black Majic From: Terry Kennedy <terry@olypen.com> Date: 1998-07-29 13:27:16
Well guys - this one's for the pro's out there...
We recently moved our Netserver/quads from digital to analog
( replaced them with the hiperARC\dsp combo's ) in place of
our old Annex/multitech box's in order to better faciltate our
RADIUS needs. ( Annex's don't do RADIUS well).
So... we removed the T1 cards, set the modems to the nic and
turned the whole mess on. Works fine except..... constant complaits
of people being disconnected. Loss of carrier seems to be the
dominant reason. I went through this with multitech
modems and ended up adjusting transmitter levels. That's the
Black Majic part. I remember all too well helping one customer
only to have created other trouble in doing this. The transmitter
levels are at 11db. I would imagine this is a negative level? So
anyone cares to give me a little insight as to how yours are set, if
they are different at all, I would appreciate it.
I have already up the carrier loss from 7 to 20.
Idle timeout on the modems is shut off.
Any ideas aside from messing with these levels?
3.7.24 code on the netserver
5.10.9 code on the modems
Terry Kennedy
OlyPen, Inc.
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) MRTG with HiperARC From: Mike Andrews <mandrews@termfrost.org> Date: 1998-07-29 15:48:10
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Horace Demmink wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am currently using MRTG to monitor modem usage on a bunch of netserver
> based TC hubs. The setup I am using was working out quite well for me
> until I added a hiper chassis. The method I was using before
> (interfaces.ifNumber.0 - 1) doesn't seem to work on the HiperARC as it
> reports all interfaces regarless if they are active or not. Has anyone
> found a easy way to monitor these things? For reference here is the
> section of mrtg.cfg that I am currently using to monitor one of our modem
> pools ( 3 48 port hubs).
Here's what I'm using...
Target[hostname]: 1.3.6.1.4.1.429.4.2.1.10.0&1.3.6.1.4.1.429.4.2.1.10.0:community@hostname
I don't know if this handles MLPPP right, and one known problem is that if
you telnet into the ARC to do maintenance, your telnet connection is
counted... but other than that, this seems to work for us.
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) MRTG with HiperARC From: Scott Gardner Anderson <gardner@interport.net> Date: 1998-07-29 16:16:06
> I am currently using MRTG to monitor modem usage on a bunch of netserver
> based TC hubs. The setup I am using was working out quite well for me
> until I added a hiper chassis. The method I was using before
> (interfaces.ifNumber.0 - 1) doesn't seem to work on the HiperARC as it
> reports all interfaces regarless if they are active or not. Has anyone
> found a easy way to monitor these things? For reference here is the
Noticed the same problem myself - I use
snmpwalk -v 1 {device} {commuity} interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifSpeed
and parse out any speed above 0 but less than 100000 (to filter out the
ethernet interfaces).
SGA
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Asking $7,500 for above bundle.
OR separately:
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Subject:(usr-tc) Counting connections From: Mark R. Lindsey <mark@vielle.datasys.net> Date: 1998-07-29 16:44:10
I think what you really mean is to count up the number of modems in use,
right? Looking at the mdmCsStatus tree for onlineAnswer modems makes the
most sense to me. It works for HDMs and quads.
I've been measuring this object for several months now, and it seems to
the best I've found. If I only measure logins, then I'm not really
measuring what interests me: I'm really interested in how busy my hunt
group is. My sample catches modems in the connect and disconnect
phases.
Further, if you set some arbitrary connect speed floor, you're going to
miss those weird, 9600bps connections. (I'd fire any ISP that didn't let
me connect with v.32.) You might want to sample for low-speed connections
for other purposes, though.
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Subject:(usr-tc) ARC SNMP Replies to ...interfaces.0 From: Kevin Benton <s1kevin@tims.net> Date: 1998-07-29 16:52:00
4.0.29 replies with the total number of interfaces. 4.0.19 replies with
the number of *active* interfaces. Would 3Com please either do one of the
below?
1) Change it back to the way it was by reporting the number of interfaces
in-use,
2) Allow users to select whether or not ...interfaces.0 (as per the
previous posts on this list) would reply with the total number of
interfaces, or the total number of active interfaces which would help us
determine number of active connections, or
3) Give us a totally separate mib entry for the number of channels being
used via snmp.
My personal preference would be to be able to monitor the number of
channels in use on a T1 level, but the above would be acceptable for the
intermediate time.
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On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Mark R. Lindsey wrote:
> I think what you really mean is to count up the number of modems in use,
> right? Looking at the mdmCsStatus tree for onlineAnswer modems makes the
> most sense to me. It works for HDMs and quads.
>
> I've been measuring this object for several months now, and it seems to
> the best I've found. If I only measure logins, then I'm not really
> measuring what interests me: I'm really interested in how busy my hunt
> group is. My sample catches modems in the connect and disconnect
> phases.
>
> Further, if you set some arbitrary connect speed floor, you're going to
> miss those weird, 9600bps connections. (I'd fire any ISP that didn't let
> me connect with v.32.) You might want to sample for low-speed connections
> for other purposes, though.
Why should I count what the chassis has a very easy time giving to me? My
servers have enough work to do polling 14 3com chassis', other dial-up
equipment, routers, etc. I have my mrtg refresh rate to once every five
minutes. If mrtg isn't done in five minutes, then it's taking way too
long. At this point, allowing mrtg to count would take too long.
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) hub status led From: Cassandra M. Perkins <cassy@loop.com> Date: 1998-07-29 18:07:48
I had the same problem with the hub status led being solid red. I would
take the card out of the chassis and let it cool down. When I
re-installed it, the problem would go away for a few minutes and then
return. The chassis is at the very top of my rack. The rack had a cover.
When I removed it the problem went away. Check to see if you have enough
space between equipment and proper air flow. It might solve your problem.
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On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, -=X=- wrote:
> Hello
>
> I've been checking on 3com's web site and checking the archives of this
> list. I've found some questions and answers about the hub status led on
> the NMC, but I want to make sure I understand it.
>
> Right now the LED is red. I've been looking all over trying to find out
> why it's red, but there is none that I can find. I've heard it could be
> the power supply, but we only have one and it tests OK. I've run the
> tests, put the IP's in. I can ping it, I can use TCM to get to it. But
> that darn LED is red and it is starting to bug me :-)
>
> Any indication of why it would be red? My next step it to try to swap it
> with a NMC here and see what happens.
>
> Also, as long as I am mentioning it, right now I have all green lights
> (except for that one red led) and the PRI seems to be set fine and
> GTE can trace the call to the trunk, but when you dial the lead
> number you get a fast busy. I've done the set s# active and modem on and
> some other things, but it's still fast busy. Could this hub status light
> have anything to do with it? I'll be calling GTE again tomorrow to see if
> they can run some more tests, but I don't want to yell at them when it's
> something at my end. ;-)
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
>
>
> Dan Allen - System Admin.
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>
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Kevin Benton <s1kevin@tims.net> writes:
> Why should I count what the chassis has a very easy time giving to me?
I guess it depends on what you want. If you want to know how many IP
level interfaces have been instantiated (or defined depending on
implementation) on the terminal server, then it's an easy query.
But if you're interested in the specific status of your modems (e.g.,
want to count modems more than interfaces since they may not be the
same), or you care about your DS0 availability (again, not necessarily
the same as modems or IP interfaces), then that information isn't
immediately available at an aggregated level.
Might it be useful for the NMC to have some internally aggregated
tables that would be available for query externally? Sure. But is it
that hard to do the aggregation yourself? Nope.
To a large extent "counting users" is an ambiguous request, since
exactly what you want to count might be different in different
contexts. The Total Control gear has a lot of flexibility at the low
level for querying anything you might want, but not as many
pre-existing options at the aggregated level.
> My
> servers have enough work to do polling 14 3com chassis', other dial-up
> equipment, routers, etc. I have my mrtg refresh rate to once every five
> minutes. If mrtg isn't done in five minutes, then it's taking way too
> long. At this point, allowing mrtg to count would take too long.
If you're taking anywhere near minutes to poll 14 chassis and other
gear, I'm betting that just a few tweaks could get you very large
improvements in cycle time - particularly if you have everything
serialized at this point. Polling in parallel (possibly with some
grouping factor to avoid overloading a local machine or link with
traffic bursts, but with only 14 hubs I don't think that's an issue)
you should probably be able to poll everything in under 30 seconds -
barring timeouts or network lossage requiring retransmission.
We ping monitor about 10,000 individual devices from a central
location with cycle times well below 5 minutes, and this includes
throttles to avoid very high pps rates at the central site.
Simultaneously, SNMP polls for all interface statistics of every
router in the network (don't have an accurate count, but at least
several thousand) with a 5 minute cycle time.
Granted, that's with dedicated code, so MRTG's model may force some
serialization, but you might be able to make just some small
adjustments in terms of parallelization and get pretty good gains in
terms of speed.
Just for a data point, if you're slightly efficient with your query
you can grab all the mdmCsStatus information for a doubled-up chassis
(12 quad cards and 2 HDMs) in about 14-15 seconds.
Or, if you're interested in DS0 utilization rather than modems, you
can grab bulk status objects in about 1-2 seconds even for a fully
loaded hub of HDMs.
So if you query them in parellel, you should be able to get all 14
hubs in that same 14-15 second period - you just need a small script
to do it and then output the single value that MRTG wants.
I think there's a pretty lengthy thread available in the archives
(mdmCsStatus is in the subject I think) when we last covered a lot of
this ground. Given that some of the aggregate information isn't
necessarily directly available (good feature request, but you still
need to live with what is around), it covers a variety of techniques
you can use to get other sorts of info.
Of course, individual requirements vary - and if querying the
MIB-II interfaces parameter is suitable, it's clearly a great object
to plug straight into MRTG. Just don't discount the availability of
other info at different granularities just because it might require a
little extra processing on the poller side.
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Subject:(usr-tc) Why Is USR's Brand Being Destroyed? Fire Those 3Com Assholes! From: Dwight G. Jones <djones@imagen.net> Date: 1998-07-29 21:18:02
We bought two used USR-TC racks months ago and they're on the shelf.
The only response I got from USR techs on this USR-TC list was an
auto-response saying he was out of the office, and I wasn't high on his list
when he got back either. Nada city - they have no idea how coarse an
approach this is.
These dudes, dragged out from the local employment office, don't know the
dues USRobotics paid throughout the BBS generation, and they certainly have
to learn the business all over again, no one's reminding them.
It's their Execs who should be fired, they defend their support lines with
VERY high fees in place of documentation. Who's the rocket-scientist 3Com
stuffed-shirt asshole who dreamed up THIS strategy?
Wake up, morons, there's a difference between a Sportster modem and a TC
Rack! You don't have to blackball EVERYBODY.
Best Regards;
Dwight G. Jones
Imagen Communications Inc.
http://www.imagen.net
Information Architects tm
This from an ISP CEO list:
We have also had problems with USR and the NetServer. While we haven't had
any bad ports, we have had the problem with ISDN adapters and the ISDN
throughput has not been acceptable compared to other equipment.
We are also still waiting for the new code for v.90. 3com released the code
long ago for the TC units, but the netservers are still on hold.
Tech support at 3com is very bad compared to Livingston/Lucent. We were
forced to purchase a per incident from 3com simply because a feature that
should have been in the documentation was not (we simply wanted to disable
the ISDN on a few ports for hunting reasons). We were forced to pay $250
for the necessary information that should have been in the documentation..
not to mention being on hold for hours and numerous call backs and such
nonsense.
In contrast, Tech support at Livingston/Lucent is great... we have a few
PM2s and have only had to call twice, but both times were a pleasant
experience (as pleasant as these things can go).
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) interview From: Scott Kreuser <scott@c2.constant.com> Date: 1998-07-30 08:59:40
I care ALOT. Actually I'm very frustrated with the hype 3com
has created about their VOIP solution. Every 3com web page
basically says it is available now. However, I cannot get one
person over at 3com to tell me where/when/if it is even available.
In my opinion VOIP will be how we ISPs will compete with cable modems
and other broadband access technologies that we will not have
access too. When your customers can get 2/mbs through there cable
company for the same price as a 56k connect through you.. well,
what would you choose?? Value added service/bundling of new services
will be the only way to compete + we will be the ones who will be
able to deliver these new services first!
Scott
> Is it just me, or is it really starting to seem like IP telephony is all
> NAS vendors care about nowadays??
>
> Is it just me, or do none of the ISP's out there actually care about this?
>
> Maybe I'm just smoking crack, or haven't had my morning caffeine fix...
>
> (And I'm not singling 3com out here.)
>
>
> Mike Andrews (MA12) icq 6602506 -------------- mandrews@dcr.net
> Senior Systems/Network Administrator --- mandrews@termfrost.org
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> "If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?..."
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Why Is USR's Brand Being Destroyed? Fire Those 3Com Assholes! From: Jamie Orzechowski <mhz@recorder.ca> Date: 1998-07-30 09:02:18
I am starting to DETEST 3Com/USR ... If we could do it again .. livingston
would be beside me ... I have yet to have a straight answer from them and
they have never fixed any of my problems ...
-----Original Message-----
Assholes!
>
>> It's their Execs who should be fired, they defend their support lines
>> with VERY high fees in place of documentation. Who's the
>> rocket-scientist 3Com stuffed-shirt asshole who dreamed up THIS
>> strategy?
>
>Amen.
>
>We're waiting on replacment parts for our racks. In their infinite
>wisdom, they've decided to do all replacements out of SINGAPORE (we're in
>Australia). We have to make international phone calls to talk to them
>(we can't - our phones/faxes are ISD barred). They e-mail us attachments
>we can't read. They tell us our product doesn't exist.
>
>They tell us their standard warranty arrangements for TC class equipment
>is to have us return the faulty component and wait up to 30 days for a
>replacement. They should realise they're not selling $200 modems here,
>it's 'high end' server equipment and a 30-day RTB warranty isn't worth
>sh*t.
>
>They told us we'd have to move to a support contract sometime in the
>future, but they never bothered to tell us just when that was happening or
>what the deal would be.
>
>> In contrast, Tech support at Livingston/Lucent is great... we have a few
>> PM2s and have only had to call twice, but both times were a pleasant
>> experience (as pleasant as these things can go).
>
>We've already reminded 3COM that we won't be buying any more of their
>equipment unless things improve. Livingston is looking very attractive at
>this stage, and to that end we've already made enquiries with a view to
>purchasing their equipment instead.
>
>...now when USR was USR, things were great - at least they were here in Oz
>- can't speak for the rest of the world. 3COM downsized most of the USR
>employees out of existance in Australia :-(
>
>Regards,
>
>Bob Purdon,
>Technical Manager,
>Southern Internet Services.
>
>
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) interview From: Mike Andrews <mandrews@termfrost.org> Date: 1998-07-30 09:44:20
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Brian wrote:
> Interview with 3Com's CEO in this weeks InternetWeek magazine, he talks
> about integrating IP telephony/SS7 with USR TC gear............
Is it just me, or is it really starting to seem like IP telephony is all
NAS vendors care about nowadays??
Is it just me, or do none of the ISP's out there actually care about this?
Maybe I'm just smoking crack, or haven't had my morning caffeine fix...
(And I'm not singling 3com out here.)
Mike Andrews (MA12) icq 6602506 -------------- mandrews@dcr.net
Senior Systems/Network Administrator --- mandrews@termfrost.org
Digital Crescent, Frankfort, KY ----- http://www.termfrost.org/
"If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?..."
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) interview From: Jeff Binkley <jeff.binkley@asacomp.com> Date: 1998-07-30 11:29:00
-> On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Brian wrote:
->
-> > Interview with 3Com's CEO in this weeks InternetWeek magazine, he talks >
-> about integrating IP telephony/SS7 with USR TC gear............
-> Is it just me, or is it really starting to seem like IP telephony is all NAS
-> vendors care about nowadays??
->
-> Is it just me, or do none of the ISP's out there actually care about this?
-> Maybe I'm just smoking crack, or haven't had my morning caffeine fix...
-> (And I'm not singling 3com out here.)
No, what's happening is everyone is eyeing the crown jewel of the long
distance carriers; their $200 billion+ switched voice market. Up until
now you had to play by their very rigid rules. regulations and in a
heavily capital overhead industry. Did you ever wonder how companies
like Ascend, Nortel and Lucent got so big ? Ever buy a central office
switch (i.e. ESS, DMS etc..) ? When I was at MCI figures like $4 million
plus were thrown around. How can they afford them ? Simply, by
charging per minute usage on a product which has about the highest
profit margin of any product in that industry. So the LD companies
don't want to see bypass, flat rate pricing, IP telephony etc..
unless they control the market. Watch how much IP telephony stuff
they buy and how they market it. Anyway, enoguh of my ramblings
but I think you see the prize and the motivation...
Jeff Binkley
ASA Network Computing
no it looks like in the next few years the 2 may become 1
At 09:44 AM 7/30/98 -0400, you wrote:
>On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Brian wrote:
>
>> Interview with 3Com's CEO in this weeks InternetWeek magazine, he talks
>> about integrating IP telephony/SS7 with USR TC gear............
>
>Is it just me, or is it really starting to seem like IP telephony is all
>NAS vendors care about nowadays??
>
>Is it just me, or do none of the ISP's out there actually care about this?
>
>Maybe I'm just smoking crack, or haven't had my morning caffeine fix...
>
>(And I'm not singling 3com out here.)
>
>
>Mike Andrews (MA12) icq 6602506 -------------- mandrews@dcr.net
>Senior Systems/Network Administrator --- mandrews@termfrost.org
>Digital Crescent, Frankfort, KY ----- http://www.termfrost.org/
>"If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?..."
>
>
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On 29 Jul 98, at 18:33, David Bolen <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com> wrote:
> Kevin Benton <s1kevin@tims.net> writes:
>
> > Why should I count what the chassis has a very easy time giving to me?
>
> Or, if you're interested in DS0 utilization rather than modems, you
> can grab bulk status objects in about 1-2 seconds even for a fully
> loaded hub of HDMs.
How? what's the mib item?
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) interview From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-30 13:18:16
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Jeff Binkley wrote:
> -> On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Brian wrote:
> ->
> -> > Interview with 3Com's CEO in this weeks InternetWeek magazine, he talks >
> -> about integrating IP telephony/SS7 with USR TC gear............
> -> Is it just me, or is it really starting to seem like IP telephony is all NAS
> -> vendors care about nowadays??
> ->
> -> Is it just me, or do none of the ISP's out there actually care about this?
> -> Maybe I'm just smoking crack, or haven't had my morning caffeine fix...
> -> (And I'm not singling 3com out here.)
>
> No, what's happening is everyone is eyeing the crown jewel of the long
> distance carriers; their $200 billion+ switched voice market. Up until
> now you had to play by their very rigid rules. regulations and in a
> heavily capital overhead industry. Did you ever wonder how companies
> like Ascend, Nortel and Lucent got so big ? Ever buy a central office
> switch (i.e. ESS, DMS etc..) ? When I was at MCI figures like $4 million
> plus were thrown around. How can they afford them ? Simply, by
> charging per minute usage on a product which has about the highest
> profit margin of any product in that industry. So the LD companies
> don't want to see bypass, flat rate pricing, IP telephony etc..
> unless they control the market. Watch how much IP telephony stuff
> they buy and how they market it. Anyway, enoguh of my ramblings
> but I think you see the prize and the motivation...
Realilstically however, these days you can purchase a ESS5 Lucent switch
for around $1million dollars or so, and even better than that, you can buy
your own switch that will do 32-125 PRI lines for anywhere from
$50,000-$300,000. It certainly is cost effective for an ISP to buy there
own switch, and pay NO telco charges, vs. paying $20,000 a month in telco.
When I think of doing our own switching, I am not thinking 3Com. However,
I can see them building this into there equipment, to get some cool
functionality. I personally feel that many of us (isp's) will have our
own switches over the next few years, which of course run SS7. Being able
to tie features on the 3Com into our switches via SS7, is going to be
really nice.
Brian
>
> Jeff Binkley
> ASA Network Computing
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Brett Hawn said once upon a time:
>
>We've upgraded several of our HiPer's the the V.90 code, and they're working
>great... for x2/v90 customers. However they appear to really _BITE_ for
>folks using v.34. Most of them get really shoddy connection speeds (we've
>personally seen as low as 9600bd) and get booted randomly with 'lost
>carrier'. Has anyone else seen this? USR is there is fix for this?
The new code has been working great here. No major problems across the
board. I'll have to test out the v.34 problems.
Brett Hawn said once upon a time:
>
>We've upgraded several of our HiPer's the the V.90 code, and they're working
>great... for x2/v90 customers. However they appear to really _BITE_ for
>folks using v.34. Most of them get really shoddy connection speeds (we've
>personally seen as low as 9600bd) and get booted randomly with 'lost
>carrier'. Has anyone else seen this? USR is there is fix for this?
The new code has been working great here. No major problems across the
board. I'll have to test out the v.34 problems.
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Timeouts.. From: Pete Ashdown <pashdown@xmission.com> Date: 1998-07-30 13:29:26
Tatai SV Krishnan said once upon a time:
>
>Idle time out does work with the radius server. If for any reason it is
>not working for you, let me know the version of the hiper arc code and if
>possible get me a snoop trace of the authentication.
It isn't so much that the idle-timeout doesn't work. It works great if
nothing is sent. It is the fact that the ARC counts just about everything
as activity. All some unknowledgeable subscriber needs to do is leave the
room with ICQ running and their connection is up all day.
It would be utterly swell if we could define what is counted as network
activity on the ARC. This was a feature of the very first Xylogics Annex I
bought in 1993. It amazes me that the idea isn't more widespread.
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Why Is USR's Brand Being Destroyed? Fire Those 3Com Assholes! From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-30 13:29:31
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Andres Kroonmaa wrote:
>
> Tell you what, since changeover to 3Com, things DO have improved, at least
> for me. With USR you'd die before getting any help, unless you had contract.
> What concerns hardware swaps, then of the few that I had to do, all went
> impressively smooth and fast, even to the extent that I was amused to the
> extreme. (they found that I have PSUs that might explode ;), they said
> they would replace them for free, and when I sent them confirm that yes,
> I want to, things went off and rolled in full speed, I was notified by
> mail from at least 5 people who all did handle the shipment, was given
> the DHL tracking number and in just few days the PSUs were here)
> And, when Hiper did crash every 5 mins for its bugs, 3com sent an engineer
> over here, gave us engineering version of code that was more stable,
> and did send us 2 free NetServers just to keep our service up until Hiper
> code was fixed. I wouldn't call this a bad support. And we have only software
> upgrade contract with 3Com.
I too feel that 3Com has to be given Credit in area's. They make a good
product, and they have some very cluefull support people to help offset
some of the clueless. I can speak positivly of a number of people:
Sanjeav
Krishna
Ken Tam
Mike Wronski
Skip Lasher
the above people are probably busier and busier each day, than they were
the previous day, no doubt alot of load must be put on them, but all have
shown to be positive about there jobs, genuinly concerned with the
customer and the product, and seeing that attention is put where it
matters.
I have seen some pretty bad support people at 3Com, and hopefully they are
working the necessary means to improve training and get people up to par.
Its difficult, because as we all know, its hard to learn all there is to
know about this stuff, especially when your not working in a real
enviroment such as an ISP. Once you train someone, how do you keep them
from leaving that job, and going to work for some isp or consulting firm
getting paid more? Its a rough balance.
If you pay them too cheap, they will take your training and leave. If you
pay them too much the cost of support contracts may go up as well.
My solution is I don't take bs from tech support people. If they don't
know what I am talking about, then I ask them to escalate, and believe me,
I have no patience with this, so I usually am successfull, and why
shouldn't I be? Its for the betterment of myself and 3Com, that the call
be handled by someone who knows what I am talking about. Anyone can
document the issue, and I usually let them do that. Sometimes you will be
surprised, as I was when Ken Tam did level1 and he knew solutions to all
my problems.
1. try tech support, but escalate if you have to. You may just find an
ace even at level 1 (it can happen).
2. Try to take a test/training that will allow you to get directly to
level 2 applications engineering. Once again, this is for the betterment
of both 3Com and you. You are not wasting there level 1 person's time,
and your not wasting your time either. Furthermore, once you accomplish
this, you will be well educated and probably not call much at all.
3. Use this list as a first line support, it works for us :)
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Jason W said once upon a time:
>
>This one has me stumped... On three of our USRTC
>chassis, one is using the HiPer Arc, we are having
>connection problems. Basically a user will dial in and
>after authentication, the error msg..."dial up networking
>could not negotiate a compatible set of network protocols
>you specified....blablabla" This only happens to 2 or 3
>ports on the device. If I have someone physically reset
>the card, the problem goes away.
Make sure the only protocol the user has in their Network settings is
TCP/IP. We've had this same problem with some boxes that have NetBUI, IPX
and all that other crap Microsoft throws on by default.
"Andres Kroonmaa" <andre@ml.ee> writes:
> How? what's the mib item?
I've enclosed some previous notes (should also be in the archive with
the rest of the thread) that contains some details. I know that the
HDM cards are supporting the bulk objects as of TCS 3.1 (the V.90
release) - 1.2.x.
-- David
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In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 12 Jan 1998 14:26:52 +0100
Message-ID: <CMM.0.90.2.884635228.db3l@valheru.ny.ans.net>
Robert von Bismarck <rvb@petrel.ch> writes:
> This is probably documented somewhere, but I need to know how many users
> are currently connected to a TC Hub via SNMP (so I can list this in my
> MRTG stats).
There are several ways, depending on which card(s) you wish to query
for that information. However, each method also has some pros and
cons associated with it.
You can't get it from the NETServer via SNMP since it only has MIB-II
and while you could check interfaces for PPP customers or TCP streams
for non-PPP, it wouldn't include users still logging on. You can,
however, probably get more of what you want with an embedded telnet
session to do a "show all" or "show session".
If all you service is PPP customers, then the other response posted
her that checks for the interfaces should work pretty well, although
it'll only include users who have successfully started the PPP
negotiation such that the NETServer has added an interface for them.
As far as other SNMP options, there are probably three possible methods:
(1) Querying the DS0 status on any line cards in the chassis to
determine which channels are occupied.
(2) Querying the modem status on any modem cards in the chassis to
determine which modems are occupied.
(3) Querying the LED status and gauging utilization from the chassis
LEDs being displayed on the cards.
(1) DS0 status on line cards
This would be completely accurate (providing you queried all line
cards). However, you do need to adjust the object you use by the line
card type:
Per-Channel Bulk
---------------------------------------------------
Dual T1(*) ds0StatDs0 ds0BulkAccessStatDs0Modem
Dual PRI ids0StatDs0 ids0BulkAccessStatDs0Mdm
HDM usrds0StatDs0 usrds0BlkAccessStatDs0Mdm(+)
(*) This is either the original 186 dual T1 card or the newer 386 dual
T1/PRI card running the T1 code.
(+) This object is not yet populated properly on the HDM code base.
It's also technically in the DS1 mib (rds1.mib) rather than the
DS0 mib even though the prefix is wrong.
You'll find that the per-channel objects are very slow to query on the
Dual card (slow, but not unbearably so on the HDM) so I'd strongly
suggest the bulk objects, which basically have the normal status
objects for every channel encoded byte by byte.
(2) Querying the modem status
You can use the "mdmCsStatus" object for each modem in the chassis
(quad and HDM) to get the current status and judge those that aren't
currently idle as in use. The actual response by the modems is quite
fast (unlike the per-channel DS0), but there are a lot of these
objects to query and no "bulk" equivalent.
However, if you cluster a large number of modems into a single SNMP
PDU you can probably get status for a doubled up chassis (48 modems in
quads, and another 48 in two HDM cards) in under 15 seconds.
(3) Checking LED status
This is actually the fastest method, but with the introduction of HDMs
it loses on exactness.
Using the chassis LED objects:
uchasFrontPanelLedColor, uchasFrontPanelLedColor2
uchasFrontPanelLedStates, uchasFrontPanelLedStates2
you can query all of the LEDs in the chassis. If you know which cards
are modems, you can use an amber LED for training and a green for
online to count users. (The *2 objects are for cards with more than
12 LEDs, like the HDM). The breakdown of these objects are documented
in the NMC MIB reference - or at least for the main objects, since the
*2 objects are newer, but they follow the same format just for LEDs >
12.
The rub is with the introduction of HDMs. Since they don't have an
LED for each modem (but rather one per 10% of the modems) you have to
guess a bit with HDMs in a chassis. But you can't beat the speed,
since you're just querying 4 objects and can do so in a single PDU.
So what do I do?
For my purposes, I have a "show chassis" command in one of our tools
that presents a front view of a chassis (cards, LEDs, etc..) and it
uses the LED information to quickly summarize usage as in my point
(3). For HDMs, I'm forced to estimate somewhat, although prior to
that point it was an exact count.
The other more typical approach we use is from (1) for the DS0 status,
since it lets us get a summary view of all input channels into a hub.
For that, I've done code that always tries the bulk query (selecting
the appropriate one for the card(s) in question) first, and then
issues appropriate channel queries for any channels not properly
returned in the bulk object. I've found that just checking for 0
values in the bulk object serves well here, since it covers both cases
where the NMC supports the bulk object but the card does (earlier
code) as well as issues where the card doesn't support it properly
(like current HDMs). Oh, and some versions of the dual E1 PRI code
incorrectly leaves out the 32nd channel on a span in the bulk object,
so this picks up that and requeries it directly.
Unfortunately, this isn't like a single object to query to give this
summary. That's mostly because the TC is a distributed architecture,
where the line, modems and terminal server functionality is distinct,
so asking a question like "how many users are on" is more ambiguous
than you might think, since the answer may differ depending on which
card you are talking to and what it considers idle or "on". In some
cases, what you probably want more than anything else is the NETServer
view of online users, but unfortunately it doesn't do SNMP anywhere
near as well as the rest of the chassis in terms of providing access
to all of its information.
So to work with MRTG you'd need to encapsulate this intelligence in a
script or program that could then output the right value. My guess is
that the LED poll would probably be suitable for your purposes
(particularly if you don't have HDMs yet).
Oh, and I just realized that there was a similar request last year
that I also answered, so I'll include that response below (although it
doesn't cover HDMs since they weren't out at the time) for added
reference.
-- David
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In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 30 Jul 1997 16:16:49 -0400
Message-ID: <CMM.0.90.2.870336536.db3l@foo.ans.net>
Bosco Tsang <bosco@ipoline.com> writes:
> Is it possible for me to get a user count for USR Total Control via SNMP,
> so that I can plot it out via MRTG? What are the OIDs?
I'm not sure how implementable these methods are with MRTG (is that an
SNMP display tool of some sort?), but if all you're really concerned
with is simultaneous port count (as opposed to username information or
other NETServer authentication type of stuff), there are a few
approaches you can take. The NETServer itself won't help all that
much (it supports very little via SNMP) but you can try:
* Walking the mdmCsStatus object. This will give you a list of
objects for each modem (e.g., mdmCsStatus.2001 is for modem 1 in
slot 2). Count those that have an enumerated value of
onlineAnswer(8) - or onlineOriginate(7) too if you do outbound,
and you'll have a count of "live" modems. You can look at other
enumeration values to see users that are training, or in other states.
It's not the fastest in the world, but walking a hub with 48 modems
should take about 10 seconds or so.
You can "cheat" if you know just how many modems there are, by
constructing a query that uses GetNext, and queries the objects just
in front of the known modems. For example, if you know you have 48
modems in slots 2-13, instead of doing 48 GetNext queries to walk
table dynamically, build a single query that queries the objects:
mdmCsStatus.2000, mdmCsStatus.2001,
mdmCsStatus.2002, mdmCsStatus.2003,
mdmCsStatus.3000, mdmCsStatus.3001,
(etc...)
mdmCsStatus.13002, mdmCsStatus.13003
and then issue a single GetNext query (or just a few to avoid making
the PDU too large). The instances will "roll" to the appropriate
modem (e.g., your .2000 query will get you modem 2001), and you'll
have many less PDUs to handle, cutting down the overhead. You can
query a hub worth of modems this way in only about 2-3 seconds.
Note that this approach is only useful for hubs where the modems
handle all callers, so if you have ISDN hubs that pass callers
right to the NETServer this won't count them.
* Ask your circuit card(s) what the status of their individual
span channels are. You can break it out by those that are connected
in or out, busied out, etc.. any of the enumerations as shown
in the MIBs for ds0StatDs0 (channelized T1) or ids0StatDs0 (PRI).
One approach is to actually walk the appropriate MIB tree but I
wouldn't recommend it if you can parse an opaque object instead,
because walking the DS0 status tree is deathly slow, even trying
the trick above - the interface to the T1/PRI cards is just too
slow.
Instead, I would suggest querying the newer bulk access objects
(ds0BulkAccessStatDs0Modem for channelized configurations and
ids0BulkAccessStatDs0Mdm for PRI). These objects are a single
opaque value with information on all channels in one query, and
allow you to query the span information in a single SNMP object
in well under a second. The instance for the objects is the
entity of the DS1 span (e.g., 1001 for the first DS1 in slot 1).
You do have to break the information apart a bit, once you get it
back, but for the performance it's worth it. For the channelized
T1 case the object is two bytes per channel. The first byte is
the ds0StatDs0 enumeration and the second the ds0StatModem
enumeration. So just pluck out every other byte for your DS0
channel status.
In the PRI case, the bulk object is 4 bytes per channel, the first
being the ids0StatDs0 enumeration, the second the ids0StatDevConnTo
enumeration, followed by ids0StatSlotConnTo and ids0StatChanConnTo
(the latter two are actually 0xFF for no connection which isn't
really documented in the objects themselves). So pluck out the
first of every 4 bytes and you've got your DS0 status.
Once you've got the status of your channels you can break them
out, and sum them up however you'd like.
-- David
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Subject:(usr-tc) Resetting parmaerters on the HyperDSP's From: Terry Kennedy <terry@olypen.com> Date: 1998-07-30 13:55:42
When making a change to the modem settings on the
HiperDSP's such as carrier loss or transmitter level,
does one have to reboot the card or does the setting
take place on the next call? Also same question for
the quads?
-----Original Message-----
>4.0.29 replies with the total number of interfaces. 4.0.19 replies with
>the number of *active* interfaces. Would 3Com please either do one of the
>below?
>
>1) Change it back to the way it was by reporting the number of interfaces
>in-use,
>
>2) Allow users to select whether or not ...interfaces.0 (as per the
>previous posts on this list) would reply with the total number of
>interfaces, or the total number of active interfaces which would help us
>determine number of active connections, or
>
>3) Give us a totally separate mib entry for the number of channels being
>used via snmp.
>
>My personal preference would be to be able to monitor the number of
>channels in use on a T1 level, but the above would be acceptable for the
>intermediate time.
>
>Kevin
>
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Black Majic From: Andres Kroonmaa <andre@ml.ee> Date: 1998-07-30 14:08:52
On 29 Jul 98, at 13:27, Terry Kennedy <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com> wrote:
> Well guys - this one's for the pro's out there...
>
> We recently moved our Netserver/quads from digital to analog
> ( replaced them with the hiperARC\dsp combo's ) in place of
> our old Annex/multitech box's in order to better faciltate our
> RADIUS needs. ( Annex's don't do RADIUS well).
>
> So... we removed the T1 cards, set the modems to the nic and
> turned the whole mess on. Works fine except..... constant complaits
> of people being disconnected. Loss of carrier seems to be the
> dominant reason. I went through this with multitech
> modems and ended up adjusting transmitter levels. That's the
> Black Majic part. I remember all too well helping one customer
> only to have created other trouble in doing this. The transmitter
> levels are at 11db. I would imagine this is a negative level? So
> anyone cares to give me a little insight as to how yours are set, if
> they are different at all, I would appreciate it.
Try reducing modem output levels to -15db, (but no more) might
help to some extent.
----
The following is perhaps more for 3com staff to read, and what I
am facing is somewhat surprising to me, as I have considered USR
modem technology quite robust and good. Now I am forced to review
that position.
Most of our customers with non-3Com modems are constantly complaining
about disconnects, holes in transfers (retrain effects), slow connect
times (again retrains) All the same customers have no problems when they
connect to our cisco 5200 box. Note that box TC and cisco are connected
to the same CO, and are in the same hunt group.
One of our power-users tried to diagnose the cause and ended up with
some interesting facts. He was using some IDC modem, which has some
fancy features for modem-hackers, like signal spectrum analizer, AND
noise spectrum analiser.
1) He found that there is considerable amount of noise when callin TC,
while there is much less analog noise when calling cisco's. The noise
can't appear on the digital line, so there is something wrong with
DSP processing, or transmit levels overloading something somewhere.
2) signal spectrum was almost equally nice on both
3) noise spectrum was bad. low and high side of frequencies had lots of
noise (perhaps mains inducted lowband noise and higband noise from
crosstalks). This is pretty common on the lines around here...
Now, USR does not cope with that ok, while cisco (microcom modems) does
very well.
I am told by some modem-gurus, that USR modems have a fundamental design
flaw:
- USR modem measures line signal spectrum distribution AND ONLY average
signal to noise ratio in the whole spectrum.
- It _assumes_ that noise distribution is _even_ across the whole spectrum.
- based on average S/N level and signal specrum it determines carrier
frequency and operating window within the spectrum.
- in case it is right in its assumption of even noise distribution,
everything is fine.
- in case your lines have un-even noise distribution, with spikes in low
and/or high frequencies, USR modem selects WRONG carrier and window
for operation on the given line.
USR modems do NOT measure noise distribution in the spectrum,
(you cannot read out any data about it from the modem)
and it does NOT adapt itself to line-noise distributed unevenly.
the result:
- it gets fooled by cute signal spectrum available, especially when
- there seems to be good S/N on the whole range.
So,
- it tries to operate on the frequency range that has lots of noise
(or spikes) and select inappropriate carrier frequency and range.
Manifests as:
- long and painful connecting with many retrains
- frequent disconnects before connecting, or unable to connect at all
- final connect speeds 21600/v34 on lines that are capable of 31200
- frequent retrains during session
- carrier loss and disconnects
Given non-trivial task (or 3Com's reluctance) to change DSP code,
almost noone expects things to improve in near future... ;(
But it would be lovely, if some tech guy from 3com could comment on
these observations, and if confirm the behaviour, would get the
Message: not all lines around are so perfect, and a modem from leading
modem manufacturer must cope with that.
PS. following are few illustrations of real-life lines as viewed from
client modem where USR modems looses badly.
-023-|
-025-|
-027-| _________
-029-| *************_____
-031-| _*********************_____
-033-| ******************************_____
-035-|_**************************************____
-037-|***********************************************__
-039-|*************************************************
-041-|*************************************************
-043-|*************************************************
-045-|*************************************************
-047-|*************************************************
-049-|*************************************************
-051-|*************************************************
-053-|*************************************************
----------------Signal-Strength------------------ Average: -32 dB
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3
1 3 4 6 7 9 0 2 3 5 6 8 9 1 2 4 5 7 8 0 1 3 4 6 7
5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
-053-|***___
-055-|******
-057-|******_
-059-|*******
-061-|********
-063-|********_
-065-|**********
-067-|***********_
-069-|**************_
-071-|******************_______
-073-|*******************************_______
-075-|*****************************************__*_____
-077-|*************************************************
-079-|*************************************************
-081-|*************************************************
-083-|*************************************************
-----------------Noise-Strength------------------ Average: -70 dB
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3
1 3 4 6 7 9 0 2 3 5 6 8 9 1 2 4 5 7 8 0 1 3 4 6 7
5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
009-|
011-|
013-|__
015-|**
017-|**
019-|**
021-|**_
023-|***_
025-|*****_
027-|******_
029-|*******
031-|*******_
033-|********_
035-|*********_
037-|**********__ ______________*
039-|************______________________***************
--------------Signal-to-Noise-Ratio-------------- Average: 36 dB
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3
1 3 4 6 7 9 0 2 3 5 6 8 9 1 2 4 5 7 8 0 1 3 4 6 7
5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
...
...
>Carrier Freq ( Hz ) 1600/1600 <--- (higher carrier at 2400 - 1800 Hz)
Symbol Rate 2400/2400
SNR ( dB ) 42.6
Speed: 21600/21600
-22 . X X X X X X x x x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
-24 . X X X X X X X X X X X x x . . . . . . . . . . . 3
-26 . X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X x x . . . . . . . 5
-28 . X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X x x . . . 7
-30 . X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X 9
-32 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X 11
Level --------------------Frequency-------------------- Attn
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Andres Kroonmaa mail: andre@online.ee
Network Manager
Organization: MicroLink Online Tel: 6308 909
Tallinn, Sakala 19 Pho: +372 6308 909
Estonia, EE0001 http://www.online.ee Fax: +372 6308 901
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Why Is USR's Brand Being Destroyed? Fire Those 3Com Assholes! From: Bob Purdon <bobp@southcom.com.au> Date: 1998-07-30 14:33:45
> It's their Execs who should be fired, they defend their support lines
> with VERY high fees in place of documentation. Who's the
> rocket-scientist 3Com stuffed-shirt asshole who dreamed up THIS
> strategy?
Amen.
We're waiting on replacment parts for our racks. In their infinite
wisdom, they've decided to do all replacements out of SINGAPORE (we're in
Australia). We have to make international phone calls to talk to them
(we can't - our phones/faxes are ISD barred). They e-mail us attachments
we can't read. They tell us our product doesn't exist.
They tell us their standard warranty arrangements for TC class equipment
is to have us return the faulty component and wait up to 30 days for a
replacement. They should realise they're not selling $200 modems here,
it's 'high end' server equipment and a 30-day RTB warranty isn't worth
sh*t.
They told us we'd have to move to a support contract sometime in the
future, but they never bothered to tell us just when that was happening or
what the deal would be.
> In contrast, Tech support at Livingston/Lucent is great... we have a few
> PM2s and have only had to call twice, but both times were a pleasant
> experience (as pleasant as these things can go).
We've already reminded 3COM that we won't be buying any more of their
equipment unless things improve. Livingston is looking very attractive at
this stage, and to that end we've already made enquiries with a view to
purchasing their equipment instead.
...now when USR was USR, things were great - at least they were here in Oz
- can't speak for the rest of the world. 3COM downsized most of the USR
employees out of existance in Australia :-(
Regards,
Bob Purdon,
Technical Manager,
Southern Internet Services.
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Why Is USR's Brand Being Destroyed? Fire Those 3Com Assholes! From: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@interpath.net> Date: 1998-07-30 15:20:02
Bob Purdon was heard to say:
>They tell us their standard warranty arrangements for TC class equipment
>is to have us return the faulty component and wait up to 30 days for a
>replacement. They should realise they're not selling $200 modems here,
>it's 'high end' server equipment and a 30-day RTB warranty isn't worth
>sh*t.
I can only speak of things within the USA, but I've not had a problem getting
parts replaced. We don't have a 24hr replacement contract either -- we have
spare hardware on hand as even 24hr replacement is too slow depending on the
failure. They get replacement hardware back to us with a few weeks (always
less than a month.)
>> In contrast, Tech support at Livingston/Lucent is great... we have a few
>> PM2s and have only had to call twice, but both times were a pleasant
>> experience (as pleasant as these things can go).
>
>We've already reminded 3COM that we won't be buying any more of their
>equipment unless things improve. Livingston is looking very attractive at
>this stage, and to that end we've already made enquiries with a view to
>purchasing their equipment instead.
I think most of their clients have said the same thing, but it isn't sinking
in as far as I've seen. I will give them some credit... the support center
is actually answering the phones in less than 15 minutes and <gasp> they
are actually helpful.
--Ricky
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Why Is USR's Brand Being Destroyed? Fire Those 3Com Assholes! From: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@interpath.net> Date: 1998-07-30 15:20:02
Bob Purdon was heard to say:
>They tell us their standard warranty arrangements for TC class equipment
>is to have us return the faulty component and wait up to 30 days for a
>replacement. They should realise they're not selling $200 modems here,
>it's 'high end' server equipment and a 30-day RTB warranty isn't worth
>sh*t.
I can only speak of things within the USA, but I've not had a problem getting
parts replaced. We don't have a 24hr replacement contract either -- we have
spare hardware on hand as even 24hr replacement is too slow depending on the
failure. They get replacement hardware back to us with a few weeks (always
less than a month.)
>> In contrast, Tech support at Livingston/Lucent is great... we have a few
>> PM2s and have only had to call twice, but both times were a pleasant
>> experience (as pleasant as these things can go).
>
>We've already reminded 3COM that we won't be buying any more of their
>equipment unless things improve. Livingston is looking very attractive at
>this stage, and to that end we've already made enquiries with a view to
>purchasing their equipment instead.
I think most of their clients have said the same thing, but it isn't sinking
in as far as I've seen. I will give them some credit... the support center
is actually answering the phones in less than 15 minutes and <gasp> they
are actually helpful.
--Ricky
Goemon Ishikawa said once upon a time:
>
>On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Pete Ashdown wrote:
>> Brett Hawn said once upon a time:
>> >We've upgraded several of our HiPer's the the V.90 code, and they're working
>> >great... for x2/v90 customers. However they appear to really _BITE_ for
>> >folks using v.34. Most of them get really shoddy connection speeds (we've
>> >personally seen as low as 9600bd) and get booted randomly with 'lost
>> >carrier'. Has anyone else seen this? USR is there is fix for this?
>> The new code has been working great here. No major problems across the
>> board. I'll have to test out the v.34 problems.
>
>Are you talking about HiperDSP 1.2.5? We are about to upgrade for v.90 and
>I want to make sure we are using the right release. I don't like suprises.
>^_^;
I am. I upgraded a few days after it came out. That was a couple of weeks
ago and things have been just peachy. They fixed the ISDN support for
Cisco and Webramp adapters as well. Plus ISDN connects much faster
overall.
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Why Is USR's Brand Being Destroyed? Fire Those 3Com Assholes! From: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@interpath.net> Date: 1998-07-30 15:43:53
Brian was heard to say:
>I am on *alot* of lists. Routers, access equipment, isp related,
>operating system related, hardware related. I have never been on a list
>where there were so many people who felt so strongly and negative about a
>company. The only thing that comes close is the tyan motherboards
>newsgroup.
Hehehh... Personally, I like Tyan MBs... when they work. If it breaks, you'll
wish you'd never have heard of Tyan. (But ASUS is just as bad about returns.)
>When we first got TC hubs it was very frustrating because of
>tech support, back then I use to wait on hold over an hour to talk to
>them.
That seems to be the standard case. Once you've learned how the things work,
then your happy with them. But getting to the happy-ground is very difficult
as there is very little accurate documentation on the hardware and it changes
faster than it can be documented. Plus, some things are just plain broken.
>In the defense of 3Com, I will say that it's very important that if you
>have an "issue", to call their tech support and open a ticket on it, that
>is the least that must get done. Level 2 and Level 3 tech
>support/engineering is very good in most cases, it's the front line that
>is lacking.
You can also open a TT via the totalservice web site.
>I personally hope 3com makes improvments so that all of us our happy once
>again, because I am genuinely concerned about the health of the company
>that engineers the access equipment we use. The better 3Com does, the
>better we are as a company for the future.
They need to learn how to market stuff. 5k$US per chassis support contracts
are just out of the question -- that's half the price of replacing the chassis.
1800$US software support is tolerable, but also unreasonable as I don't have
anything to show that they are, in fact, supporting the software. They have
not been fixing some of the well known netserver problems and they plan to
discontinue the netservers (with some insane swap out program that ends in
about a month.) It's like resurecting the dead to get USR/3Com to even
admit to some of the bugs in the RADIUS server code.
It's taken them 14 months to add 6 lines of code to the RADIUS server to
allow native crypt() passwords in the database. (Something that took me a
day to do from the time I was handed the source code. Something that takes
about 5min for someone familiar with the code.) They knew that was required
from the moment we started talking to them. That support is now in SA6 as
part of the TCS 3.5 beta. (Nothing personal, but I don't trust them.)
--Ricky
I am running 1.2.5 and I have the same problems ... people getting kicked
off for no apparent reason ... running NETServer's with this code ...
-----Original Message-----
>On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Pete Ashdown wrote:
>> Brett Hawn said once upon a time:
>> >We've upgraded several of our HiPer's the the V.90 code, and they're
working
>> >great... for x2/v90 customers. However they appear to really _BITE_ for
>> >folks using v.34. Most of them get really shoddy connection speeds
(we've
>> >personally seen as low as 9600bd) and get booted randomly with 'lost
>> >carrier'. Has anyone else seen this? USR is there is fix for this?
>> The new code has been working great here. No major problems across the
>> board. I'll have to test out the v.34 problems.
>
>Are you talking about HiperDSP 1.2.5? We are about to upgrade for v.90 and
>I want to make sure we are using the right release. I don't like suprises.
>^_^;
>
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Subject:(usr-tc) Routing problem? From: Chad J. LaFrenz <clafrenz@rof.net> Date: 1998-07-30 16:59:59
Hello All--
Running 7 TC's with the latest code on all cards (no Hyper's). 6 of these
are on 209.38.34 as is our main mail/web server (Digital Alpha running DEC
Unix 4.0c). The 7th is on 209.38.35. The server nic is stacked with both
Class Cs and gated is running.
Problem: Someone dials in and gets onto the 7th rack (which is also at the
end of our hunt group). They can surf the web going anywhere in the world
that they want to; however, they cannot get to our web server nor can they
check their mail on the main server. The same customer can then hang up,
change nothing, dial back in, get on TC 1-6 and everything works just fine.
From the server I cannot ping their ptp address either although I can ping
the 7th TC's Netserver card. I can ping their ptp from an NT box that sits
on the network. So, there is obviously something wrong between the DEC box
and the 209.38.35 addresses. Item of note: We do have some .35 addresses
aliased to the NIC as hosted domains (as we do on the .34 addresses as well)
and they work just fine. The routing on the net0 interface is set to
Quiet(Off). This used to be set to broadcast, listen. Neither setting has
made any difference in reference to the problem. Here is some output of the
TC's routing table:
0.0.0.0 /0 209.38.35.251 NS 1 net0 0
209.38.35.51 /32 209.38.35.51 HLCO 16 Unknown 0
209.38.35.87 /32 209.38.35.87 HLC 1 ptp14 0
209.38.35.56 /32 209.38.35.56 HLC 1 ptp36 0
209.38.35.89 /32 209.38.35.89 HLC 1 ptp21 0
209.38.34.0 /24 209.38.35.251 NSC 1 net0 0
209.38.35.0 /24 209.38.35.129 NLC 1 net0 0
The setups of the TCs are identical. I even did the Restore from defaults,
Save to NVRAM, and reboot sequence. I have no problems (except some random
disconnecting still) with the other 6 TCs.
Anyone run into this? Am I missing something real simple? I have a new
Hyper bundle that is not on-line yet would it solve the problem? Or is the
DEC box setup improperly?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Chad J. LaFrenz
Senior System Administrator
RoFIntUG
V: 970-945-4920 F: 970-947-1923
Proudly serving the Aspen, Glenwood Springs, Rifle, and Vail Valleys.
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Routing problem? From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-30 18:35:37
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Chad J. LaFrenz wrote:
> Hello All--
>
> Running 7 TC's with the latest code on all cards (no Hyper's). 6 of these
> are on 209.38.34 as is our main mail/web server (Digital Alpha running DEC
> Unix 4.0c). The 7th is on 209.38.35. The server nic is stacked with both
> Class Cs and gated is running.
Here is my solution, you may love it, you may hate it, I don't know but it
works :)
If you run OSPF on your servers, which is what we do, do something like
this (assuming your router is at 209.38.34.1:
rip no {
} ;
ospf yes {
area 1 {
authtype none ;
networks {
209.38.35.0 ;
209.38.34.0 ;
} ;
interface eth0;
} ;
} ;
static {
default gateway 209.38.34.1 retain;
} ;
If you run only RIP (yuck!) than use this for your servers:
rip yes {
nobroadcast ;
} ;
static {
default gateway 208.206.76.1 retain;
};
Now, on your USR boxes, simply enable RIPv2.
Now on your Cisco router, do this if your using OSPF on server and RIP on
USR boxen (like we do):
router ospf 10
redistribute connected subnets
redistribute static
redistribute rip subnets
network 209.38.34.0 0.0.0.255 area 1
network 209.38.35.0 0.0.0.255 area 1
!
router rip
version 2
timers basic 30 30 2 60 300
passive-interface Serial0/0.1 (or whatever your serial interfaces are)
network 209.38.34.0
network 209.38.35.0
no auto-summary
If you just run RIPv2 on your gated/3com boxes, just use the router rip
stuff and don't put the router ospf stuff in.
Your config may be tweaked a little (you may have more passive interfaces,
you may wish to use a different ospf area, all that can be changed).
The above rocks for us, all static/ip subnet customers can dial into any
box and everything gets distributed nice and aggregated etc.
Brian
>
> Problem: Someone dials in and gets onto the 7th rack (which is also at the
> end of our hunt group). They can surf the web going anywhere in the world
> that they want to; however, they cannot get to our web server nor can they
> check their mail on the main server. The same customer can then hang up,
> change nothing, dial back in, get on TC 1-6 and everything works just fine.
> >From the server I cannot ping their ptp address either although I can ping
> the 7th TC's Netserver card. I can ping their ptp from an NT box that sits
> on the network. So, there is obviously something wrong between the DEC box
> and the 209.38.35 addresses. Item of note: We do have some .35 addresses
> aliased to the NIC as hosted domains (as we do on the .34 addresses as well)
> and they work just fine. The routing on the net0 interface is set to
> Quiet(Off). This used to be set to broadcast, listen. Neither setting has
> made any difference in reference to the problem. Here is some output of the
> TC's routing table:
>
> 0.0.0.0 /0 209.38.35.251 NS 1 net0 0
> 209.38.35.51 /32 209.38.35.51 HLCO 16 Unknown 0
> 209.38.35.87 /32 209.38.35.87 HLC 1 ptp14 0
> 209.38.35.56 /32 209.38.35.56 HLC 1 ptp36 0
> 209.38.35.89 /32 209.38.35.89 HLC 1 ptp21 0
> 209.38.34.0 /24 209.38.35.251 NSC 1 net0 0
> 209.38.35.0 /24 209.38.35.129 NLC 1 net0 0
>
> The setups of the TCs are identical. I even did the Restore from defaults,
> Save to NVRAM, and reboot sequence. I have no problems (except some random
> disconnecting still) with the other 6 TCs.
>
> Anyone run into this? Am I missing something real simple? I have a new
> Hyper bundle that is not on-line yet would it solve the problem? Or is the
> DEC box setup improperly?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chad J. LaFrenz
> Senior System Administrator
> RoFIntUG
>
> V: 970-945-4920 F: 970-947-1923
>
> Proudly serving the Aspen, Glenwood Springs, Rifle, and Vail Valleys.
>
> http://www.rof.net
>
>
>
>
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Subject:RE: (usr-tc) Why Is USR's Brand Being Destroyed? Fire Those 3Com Assholes! From: Dwight G. Jones <djones@imagen.net> Date: 1998-07-30 21:13:18
As the originator of this thread, I'd like to add that we are also
developers of ISP billing software (Imagen's PayMaster). We were hoping to
be able to configure, use and test our products on an old friend from back
in 1987 - USR equipment. Instead we are embarrassed in our own ISP customer
community by 3Com's non-approach to customer support. We have busy signals
because of inactive racks, the telco had installed the needed extra lines
months ago.
I'm not a hardware tech, or a programmer for that matter - the dudes who
have to make the Network work - I'm a CEO of a small software firm. It hurts
when it's not enough to do your own job, and you have to cover the next
guy's as well. The hardware loses value FAST in that environment, just as
our software would - perhaps more so. ASIC chips don't do PR, unless you
want to argue with error messages..
In the end I think it's poor management to try to avoid technical support,
or to try to make it into a profit center. Word of mouth is generated by
people, not equipment. If there is anything that distinguishes a network
professional, it is that he takes his trade seriously.
Best Regards;
Dwight G. Jones
Imagen Communications Inc.
http://www.imagen.net
Information Architects tm
-----Original Message-----
[mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Charles Sprickman
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 1998 7:14 PM
3Com Assholes!
So here's my story...
Previously known as "HiPer and Dead Air" or somesuch.
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Why Is USR's Brand Being Destroyed? Fire Those 3Com Assholes! From: Andres Kroonmaa <andre@ml.ee> Date: 1998-07-30 21:13:40
Tell you what, since changeover to 3Com, things DO have improved, at least
for me. With USR you'd die before getting any help, unless you had contract.
What concerns hardware swaps, then of the few that I had to do, all went
impressively smooth and fast, even to the extent that I was amused to the
extreme. (they found that I have PSUs that might explode ;), they said
they would replace them for free, and when I sent them confirm that yes,
I want to, things went off and rolled in full speed, I was notified by
mail from at least 5 people who all did handle the shipment, was given
the DHL tracking number and in just few days the PSUs were here)
And, when Hiper did crash every 5 mins for its bugs, 3com sent an engineer
over here, gave us engineering version of code that was more stable,
and did send us 2 free NetServers just to keep our service up until Hiper
code was fixed. I wouldn't call this a bad support. And we have only software
upgrade contract with 3Com.
Of course, when I asked from an engineer honestly, why so gentle attention,
he said that they pay special attention to new startups and pilot projects.
(I guess sort of new market area penetration). Well, this leads to
simple general attitude: as long as you are of interest to the vendor,
they dance around you, and as soon as they loose interest in you, you're
on your own. Of course, you could buy that interest, and huge customers
of any vendor are always under special attention.
In general, I've got the impression, that both, USR and 3com can design
and build very nice hardware that works and is pretty reliable, but they
have deepest problems with their software, and sometimes they are plain
in deep shit. I know its tough to write a code and debug it, I know they
work hard on it, but I still have yet to see a vendor that rolls out
firmware code with so many issues and so few features in it.
Being mainly massmarket products vendor, 3com is largely as a box-mover
like computer-2000 or alikes. You can buy a cisco from such, but go and
try to get support for a real problem from them.. So it is, when you call
just ordinary support, you get a guy that handles windows driver setup
problems for some sportster perhaps, and in a organisation that large as
3com, it make take ages before they find the right person. I haven't ever
called 3Com support line, so I can't comment on that, but I believe that
its always a matter of who you get on the phone...
Basically, when you buy 3Com hardware, expect to get it working yourself,
(just as some 3com PCI network adapter?) and if you can't, tough luck.
Don't expect any help from vendor, and you might be even pleased when it
really does help you...
Things are improving. code is better, support is better. But all this
Hiper stuff is still in its infancy, and we all suffer its birthpain.
You should have known the risk when selecting 3Com over Cisco or others.
I guess that 3Com has lost lots of trust, and next time someone decides
on vendor for some high-tech hardware, 3Com would need to drop another
20% off the price compared to Cisco to make them even consider... but
we are mostly in only one of the markets...
PS. I'd still like to thank those few exUSR/3Com engineers who take their
time to monitor this list and provide useful hints. Although most probably
this isn't their duty, they have perhaps saved us tons of "on-hold hours".
Many thanks to you! And let 3Com move more support to such lists - this
is the least it can do to compensate for the trouble we all are getting.
On 30 Jul 98, at 9:02, Jamie Orzechowski <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com> wrote:
> I am starting to DETEST 3Com/USR ... If we could do it again .. livingston
> would be beside me ... I have yet to have a straight answer from them and
> they have never fixed any of my problems ...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Purdon <bobp@southcom.com.au>
> To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com>
> Date: Thursday, July 30, 1998 12:35 AM
> Subject: Re: (usr-tc) Why Is USR's Brand Being Destroyed? Fire Those 3Com
> Assholes!
>
>
> >
> >> It's their Execs who should be fired, they defend their support lines
> >> with VERY high fees in place of documentation. Who's the
> >> rocket-scientist 3Com stuffed-shirt asshole who dreamed up THIS
> >> strategy?
> >
> >Amen.
> >
> >We're waiting on replacment parts for our racks. In their infinite
> >wisdom, they've decided to do all replacements out of SINGAPORE (we're in
> >Australia). We have to make international phone calls to talk to them
> >(we can't - our phones/faxes are ISD barred). They e-mail us attachments
> >we can't read. They tell us our product doesn't exist.
> >
> >They tell us their standard warranty arrangements for TC class equipment
> >is to have us return the faulty component and wait up to 30 days for a
> >replacement. They should realise they're not selling $200 modems here,
> >it's 'high end' server equipment and a 30-day RTB warranty isn't worth
> >sh*t.
> >
> >They told us we'd have to move to a support contract sometime in the
> >future, but they never bothered to tell us just when that was happening or
> >what the deal would be.
> >
> >> In contrast, Tech support at Livingston/Lucent is great... we have a few
> >> PM2s and have only had to call twice, but both times were a pleasant
> >> experience (as pleasant as these things can go).
> >
> >We've already reminded 3COM that we won't be buying any more of their
> >equipment unless things improve. Livingston is looking very attractive at
> >this stage, and to that end we've already made enquiries with a view to
> >purchasing their equipment instead.
> >
> >...now when USR was USR, things were great - at least they were here in Oz
> >- can't speak for the rest of the world. 3COM downsized most of the USR
> >employees out of existance in Australia :-(
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Bob Purdon,
> >Technical Manager,
> >Southern Internet Services.
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Andres Kroonmaa mail: andre@online.ee
Network Manager
Organization: MicroLink Online Tel: 6308 909
Tallinn, Sakala 19 Pho: +372 6308 909
Estonia, EE0001 http://www.online.ee Fax: +372 6308 901
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Why Is USR's Brand Being Destroyed? Fire Those 3Com Assholes! From: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com> Date: 1998-07-30 22:13:32
So here's my story...
Previously known as "HiPer and Dead Air" or somesuch.
I nervously set up my first HiPer chassis after going through all the PDFs
(remember the days of free printed manuals?) and everything looked peachy.
Lots of nice new things on the ARC like the command completion and all.
Take rack to colo, triple check telco settings. All lights green, it
looks happy. However it wouldn't take a call. Just dead air. Twiddle
twiddle twiddle thinking there's a config mistake since it's new software.
The nightmare begins...
I decide to call support (no contract on this unit yet, but it's brand
new) and we go through all the typical painful clueless troubleshooting
which amounts to blowing out all configs, reloading all software, etc.
Then the techs (level 1 for the first few calls) proceed to log in and
bre^H^H fix things themselves while I wait on hold sitting on the cold
hard floor of the telco colo for a few hours. They are stumped. I don't
know what they've done, as they *don't talk to you while running around
with full admin privs in your equipment*. They vaguely suggest a telco
issue, but don't back it up with any reasoning.
Cool down for a few days... Call back again and deal with another tech
that sounds like more of a newbie but is open to suggestions (I later find
out she is level 2). This time the tech logged in again and would be me
on hold to confer with someone every 10 minutes or so. Then a nice 3 hour
hold. I have a paint bucket to sit on this time, comfy... When she
returns, the suggestion is to return the ARC and DSP. I suggest switching
to a known good T from one of our other chassis. Same deal. The
quad/Netserver chassis works on the new T but the HiPer doesn't work on
the old. At that point she was willing to rule out the telco finally.
At this point we turn to our local rep to try and get someone on site.
They are convinced it's pilot error and suggest we pay for their install
service. I work on getting him to escalate, and I eventually end up with
a very helpful person in level 3. He's stumped too, but is going through
a logical path of troubleshooting and bouncing ideas off me. This is what
my first contact with support should have been like.
Eventually, we pull all HiPer cards and I bring them back to the office
and install them in an old 45A chassis and watch it take a call. Chassis
must be bad somehow, right? Bzzz! Weeks later, I find my replacement
chassis (yep, they shipped advance) at the colo. I'd sent a fax to
"logistics" asking for two things, shipping directly to the colo and a
confirmation that it would go there. Eventually someone at the telco
called to ask if I was the owner of a big box taking up space there. Swap
it all in to the new chassis, and blammo, same problem. WTF??!
I ended up solving the problem on my own using some of the info about
static configs and "ownership" that the last tech had given me. On a
whim, I tried booting with a static config with the NMC removed. That
worked. So it was an extremely flaky NMC that was capable of nuking the
bus even with a static config and no NMC chassis awareness set. Odd, but
true.
So when does this nightmare end? I don't know. All I wanted was a new
NMC. My tech (I'll call him Brian M. -- Hey Brian!! They need to clone
you!) finished the paperwork to OK a replacement. So the fair thing is to
waive the 30-day limit on advance shipment and get me a new card ASAP,
right? They shipped defective equipment that literally cost me at least 9
full days of work, and took their time escalating to a tech that could
diagnose the faulty hardware they sent me, but they still apply the 30-day
limit and will ship me a "repaired" (I prefer the term "used") card once I
ship them the broken one.
What a complete crock.
Sorry for the ramble, but I needed to vent. This equipment makes me want
to get a therapist.
Charles
On Fri, 31 Jul
1998, Bob Purdon wrote:
> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 10:56:38 +1000 (EST)
> From: Bob Purdon <bobp@southcom.com.au>
> Reply-To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> Subject: Re: (usr-tc) Why Is USR's Brand Being Destroyed? Fire Those 3Com Assholes!
>
>
> > Tell you what, since changeover to 3Com, things DO have improved, at
> > least for me. With USR you'd die before getting any help, unless you had
> > contract.
>
> I'm finding the opposite here - with USR we had excellent support. Now
> we're getting a much lower level of service :-(
>
> > What concerns hardware swaps, then of the few that I had to do, all went
> > impressively smooth and fast, even to the extent that I was amused to
> > the extreme. (they found that I have PSUs that might explode ;), they
> > said they would replace them for free, and when I sent them confirm that
> > yes, I want to, things went off and rolled in full speed, I was notified
> > by mail from at least 5 people who all did handle the shipment, was
> > given the DHL tracking number and in just few days the PSUs were here)
>
> We typically had overnight service from USR.
>
> We've since been told our NETserver cards are suspect (the FC2/FC3 chipset
> thing, that we raised with them shortly after we purchased the units and
> were told there was no known problem). Getting replacements is a painful
> process. I think we're up to a week or more now, and I still haven't
> heard what's happening.
>
> > And, when Hiper did crash every 5 mins for its bugs, 3com sent an
> > engineer over here, gave us engineering version of code that was more
> > stable,
>
> Back when USR were USR, they sent an engineer down here to isolate one
> particular problem. Very impressive service back then.
>
> > (I guess sort of new market area penetration). Well, this leads to
> > simple general attitude: as long as you are of interest to the vendor,
> > they dance around you, and as soon as they loose interest in you, you're
> > on your own.
>
> I'm inclined to think that's what's happened here. I'll bet the Telstra's
> and Optus's (large Telcos here in Oz) are getting better responses than we
> are.
>
> > Basically, when you buy 3Com hardware, expect to get it working
> > yourself, (just as some 3com PCI network adapter?) and if you can't,
> > tough luck. Don't expect any help from vendor, and you might be even
> > pleased when it really does help you...
>
> We've had no problems when it comes to phone support, although we do
> resolve most issues ourselves anyway. It's what happens (lately) if
> something breaks :-(
>
> > I guess that 3Com has lost lots of trust
>
> Amen.
>
> > PS. I'd still like to thank those few exUSR/3Com engineers who take
> > their time to monitor this list and provide useful hints. Although most
> > probably this isn't their duty
>
> DEFINITELY! They're worth their weight in gold!
>
> Regards,
>
> Bob Purdon,
> Technical Manager,
> Southern Internet Services.
>
>
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The easy way to upgrade the arc is as follows:
on the arc add a tftp client
add tftp cli <ip addr of the unix box>
now from your unix box tftp the code to the arc
and call the new code as netserve.dmf
once the tftp is done - when ever you reboot the arc the new code will be
loaded.
krish
\ T.S.V. Krishnan \
\ Network System Engineer \ ( : - : )
\ 3Com ............ \
----------------------------------------------/
tkrishna@bubba.ae.usr.com
----------------------------/ http://interproc.ae.usr.com ----/
The Yadda Yadda Search - for simple anwers - http://interproc.ae.usr.com/tkb.html
Any Sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable for a feature.
- Rick Kulawiec
On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Brian wrote:
> Its been a while since I have upgraded ARC code.
>
> Can someone please refresh my memory:
>
> Can you upgrade the arc code while users are online, and then just do a
> reboot to come up on the new code? Or will upgrading code effect users?
> I know the reboot is of course going to drop users, but I am wondering if
> users can still dial in and all while the code upgrade is in progress.
>
> Brian
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> Network Administrator | Shreveport, Louisiana - http://www.shreve.net/
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Why Is USR's Brand Being Destroyed? Fire Those 3Com Assholes! From: Bob Purdon <bobp@southcom.com.au> Date: 1998-07-30 23:55:54
> I know what alot of you are going through. I can honestly say I haven't
> "called" tech support in about 10 months
We rarely call them either.
Now we find that to get spares in any reasonable timeframe we need a
support contract. Fine, I can grok that. Shame the annual fee seems to
be about 25% of what we paid for the damn stuff.
Prior to needing a contract, USR were very helpful with warranty
exchanges. 3COM are a pain in the ass. We weren't even formally told we
needed a contract, or what the details would be. First we really knew was
when we needed something. Great.
> and that what we have here going now is extremely reliable (every once
> in a while an interface goes down however).
Extremely reliable here too, until a NETserver started rebooting.
Apparently they consider 30 day replacements on this type of equipment to
be an appropriate warranty system. That's 30 days AFTER you send them the
dud. Geez, these aren't $200 disposable modems or network cards!
> I feel things have gotten better.
In Australia, when USR were USR, things were wonderful. Now that USR is
3COM it's damn painful. We're very unlikely to do any further business
with them, and have already approached the local Livingston reseller.
From memory, Livingston were about half the price too...
Regards,
Bob Purdon,
Technical Manager,
Southern Internet Services.
On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Randy Cosby wrote:
> Just wanted to verify, the file name is netserve.dmf for the hiperarc?
>
The file can be named as ne040035.dmf or any dmf name, the hiper arc only
if it sees a file called netserve.dmf - then it will try to load the
same. Else it it just ignore the other files.
krish
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> > [mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Tatai SV Krishnan
> > Sent: Thursday, July 30, 1998 10:35 PM
> > To: Brian
> > Cc: USRobotics TC Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: (usr-tc) Upgrading ARC code
> >
> >
> > The easy way to upgrade the arc is as follows:
> >
> > on the arc add a tftp client
> >
> > add tftp cli <ip addr of the unix box>
> >
> > now from your unix box tftp the code to the arc
> > and call the new code as netserve.dmf
> >
> > once the tftp is done - when ever you reboot the arc the new code will be
> > loaded.
> >
> > krish
> >
> > -----------------------------------------
> > \ T.S.V. Krishnan \
> > \ Network System Engineer \ ( : - : )
> > \ 3Com ............ \
> > ----------------------------------------------/
> > tkrishna@bubba.ae.usr.com
> > ----------------------------/ http://interproc.ae.usr.com ----/
> > The Yadda Yadda Search - for simple anwers -
> http://interproc.ae.usr.com/tkb.html
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------\
> Any Sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable for a feature.
> - Rick Kulawiec
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------/
>
> On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Brian wrote:
>
> > Its been a while since I have upgraded ARC code.
> >
> > Can someone please refresh my memory:
> >
> > Can you upgrade the arc code while users are online, and then just do a
> > reboot to come up on the new code? Or will upgrading code effect users?
> > I know the reboot is of course going to drop users, but I am wondering if
> > users can still dial in and all while the code upgrade is in progress.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Brian Feeny (BF304) | ShreveNet Inc. - Premium Internet Service Provider
> > Network Administrator | Shreveport, Louisiana - http://www.shreve.net/
> > signal@shreve.net | Web Hosting, Virtual Domains, Storefronts,
> > (318)222-2NET x 109 | Database/Web Integration, 56k, ISDN, T1
> >
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On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Pete Ashdown wrote:
> Brett Hawn said once upon a time:
> >We've upgraded several of our HiPer's the the V.90 code, and they're working
> >great... for x2/v90 customers. However they appear to really _BITE_ for
> >folks using v.34. Most of them get really shoddy connection speeds (we've
> >personally seen as low as 9600bd) and get booted randomly with 'lost
> >carrier'. Has anyone else seen this? USR is there is fix for this?
> The new code has been working great here. No major problems across the
> board. I'll have to test out the v.34 problems.
Are you talking about HiperDSP 1.2.5? We are about to upgrade for v.90 and
I want to make sure we are using the right release. I don't like suprises.
^_^;
Have any of you negotiated out of a 3 year contract with USWest? I think I
remember a comment from someone here about that fairly recently. We have
been contacted by a reseller offering a 6% discount and are wondering what
real world experiences ISP's are seeing with terminating USWest contracts.
I have some frame relay circuits and also some digital trunks going to our
TC hubs. They are 3 year contracts for the most part that are about a year
old. We've moved and upgraded lines over the past year or so too and it
would be a mess tracing those back to the original agreement. I was told
when they first came out with these a couple years ago by my rep that
USWest would not enforce the penalty side but he has long since moved on.
I hear that the penalty is 40% of the remaining term. Even at 6% the
savings are substantial, any of you buying from resellers?
Thanks,
Greg Coffey CoffeyNet 307-234-5443
142 S. Center St. www.coffey.com
Casper, WY 82601
yes, just did it yesterday. Flash then reboot. customers won't
be affected. One thing I did find was that when I rebooted the
first DSP ( after loading new code on both arc and dsp ) was that
the first dsp in the hunt group locked up. Maybe because it was
flooded with calls. I found it better to let it boot and then plug span
1 back in.
-----Original Message-----
>Its been a while since I have upgraded ARC code.
>
>Can someone please refresh my memory:
>
>Can you upgrade the arc code while users are online, and then just do a
>reboot to come up on the new code? Or will upgrading code effect users?
>I know the reboot is of course going to drop users, but I am wondering if
>users can still dial in and all while the code upgrade is in progress.
>
>Brian
>
>
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>(318)222-2NET x 109 | Database/Web Integration, 56k, ISDN, T1
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Why Is USR's Brand Being Destroyed? Fire Those 3Com Assholes! From: Bob Purdon <bobp@southcom.com.au> Date: 1998-07-31 10:56:38
> Tell you what, since changeover to 3Com, things DO have improved, at
> least for me. With USR you'd die before getting any help, unless you had
> contract.
I'm finding the opposite here - with USR we had excellent support. Now
we're getting a much lower level of service :-(
> What concerns hardware swaps, then of the few that I had to do, all went
> impressively smooth and fast, even to the extent that I was amused to
> the extreme. (they found that I have PSUs that might explode ;), they
> said they would replace them for free, and when I sent them confirm that
> yes, I want to, things went off and rolled in full speed, I was notified
> by mail from at least 5 people who all did handle the shipment, was
> given the DHL tracking number and in just few days the PSUs were here)
We typically had overnight service from USR.
We've since been told our NETserver cards are suspect (the FC2/FC3 chipset
thing, that we raised with them shortly after we purchased the units and
were told there was no known problem). Getting replacements is a painful
process. I think we're up to a week or more now, and I still haven't
heard what's happening.
> And, when Hiper did crash every 5 mins for its bugs, 3com sent an
> engineer over here, gave us engineering version of code that was more
> stable,
Back when USR were USR, they sent an engineer down here to isolate one
particular problem. Very impressive service back then.
> (I guess sort of new market area penetration). Well, this leads to
> simple general attitude: as long as you are of interest to the vendor,
> they dance around you, and as soon as they loose interest in you, you're
> on your own.
I'm inclined to think that's what's happened here. I'll bet the Telstra's
and Optus's (large Telcos here in Oz) are getting better responses than we
are.
> Basically, when you buy 3Com hardware, expect to get it working
> yourself, (just as some 3com PCI network adapter?) and if you can't,
> tough luck. Don't expect any help from vendor, and you might be even
> pleased when it really does help you...
We've had no problems when it comes to phone support, although we do
resolve most issues ourselves anyway. It's what happens (lately) if
something breaks :-(
> I guess that 3Com has lost lots of trust
Amen.
> PS. I'd still like to thank those few exUSR/3Com engineers who take
> their time to monitor this list and provide useful hints. Although most
> probably this isn't their duty
DEFINITELY! They're worth their weight in gold!
Regards,
Bob Purdon,
Technical Manager,
Southern Internet Services.
Just wanted to verify, the file name is netserve.dmf for the hiperarc?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com
> [mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Tatai SV Krishnan
> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 1998 10:35 PM
> To: Brian
> Cc: USRobotics TC Mailing List
> Subject: Re: (usr-tc) Upgrading ARC code
>
>
> The easy way to upgrade the arc is as follows:
>
> on the arc add a tftp client
>
> add tftp cli <ip addr of the unix box>
>
> now from your unix box tftp the code to the arc
> and call the new code as netserve.dmf
>
> once the tftp is done - when ever you reboot the arc the new code will be
> loaded.
>
> krish
>
> -----------------------------------------
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On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Brian wrote:
> Its been a while since I have upgraded ARC code.
>
> Can someone please refresh my memory:
>
> Can you upgrade the arc code while users are online, and then just do a
> reboot to come up on the new code? Or will upgrading code effect users?
> I know the reboot is of course going to drop users, but I am wondering if
> users can still dial in and all while the code upgrade is in progress.
>
> Brian
>
>
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On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Marcelo Souza wrote:
>
> On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Jeff Binkley wrote:
>
> |-> It has recently been determined that our ARC is sending 2 Accounting
> |-> requests.
> |->
> |-> We are running 4.0.69
> |
> |Try 4.0.30, the latest version. I believe it is fixed in this release...
>
> 4.0.29 has the same problem, and I didn't see it in the release
> notes of the 4.0.30.
That is odd, I was told 4.0.29 had this fixed. I checked the release
notes as well and saw no fix. I am hoping its fixed though, as I am about
to go upgrade some chassis to fix this.
Brian
>
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> - Marcelo
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-> It has recently been determined that our ARC is sending 2 Accounting
-> requests.
->
-> We are running 4.0.69
Try 4.0.30, the latest version. I believe it is fixed in this release...
Jeff Binkley
ASA Network Computing
Subject:(usr-tc) Upgrading ARC code From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: 1998-07-31 11:11:03
Its been a while since I have upgraded ARC code.
Can someone please refresh my memory:
Can you upgrade the arc code while users are online, and then just do a
reboot to come up on the new code? Or will upgrading code effect users?
I know the reboot is of course going to drop users, but I am wondering if
users can still dial in and all while the code upgrade is in progress.
Brian
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On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Jeff Binkley wrote:
|-> It has recently been determined that our ARC is sending 2 Accounting
|-> requests.
|->
|-> We are running 4.0.69
|
|Try 4.0.30, the latest version. I believe it is fixed in this release...
4.0.29 has the same problem, and I didn't see it in the release
notes of the 4.0.30.
- Marcelo
|
|Jeff Binkley
|ASA Network Computing
|
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On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Tatai SV Krishnan wrote:
> The easy way to upgrade the arc is as follows:
>
> on the arc add a tftp client
>
> add tftp cli <ip addr of the unix box>
>
> now from your unix box tftp the code to the arc
> and call the new code as netserve.dmf
>
> once the tftp is done - when ever you reboot the arc the new code will be
> loaded.
And it *should* keep my 4.0.69 configuration file in tact correct? Or
will it corrupt it?
Brian
>
> krish
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>
> On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Brian wrote:
>
> > Its been a while since I have upgraded ARC code.
> >
> > Can someone please refresh my memory:
> >
> > Can you upgrade the arc code while users are online, and then just do a
> > reboot to come up on the new code? Or will upgrading code effect users?
> > I know the reboot is of course going to drop users, but I am wondering if
> > users can still dial in and all while the code upgrade is in progress.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
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I am running 3 Netserver Bundles and 1 new Hiper ARC Bundle=2E The Netserve=
r
Bundles are authenticating fine from the 3com Security and Accounting Server
(v=2E5=2E5=2E3) but the ARC Bundle, it fails=2E
The server gives me an error: The Packet has been dropped, due to a duplicate=2E=20=
I am running the 4=2E0=2E51 on the ARC=2E Can this be a software issue?
Please let me know
Thanks
-> Its been a while since I have upgraded ARC code.
->
-> Can someone please refresh my memory:
->
-> Can you upgrade the arc code while users are online, and then just do a
-> reboot to come up on the new code? Or will upgrading code effect users? I
-> know the reboot is of course going to drop users, but I am wondering if
-> users can still dial in and all while the code upgrade is in progress.
Yes, it takes a reset to active the new code.
Jeff Binkley
ASA Network Computing
Subject:Re: (usr-tc) When x2/v90 feature enable key is needed? From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com> Date: 1998-07-31 17:53:39
Thus spake Goemon Ishikawa
>3com tech support says, feature x2/v90 enable key is only needed for Quad
>cards, and not HiperARC+HiperDSP.
>Is this true?
Yes, perhaps 3Com realized that the feature key idea for modem
modulations was *really* ignorant (IMHO)
--
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Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) When x2/v90 feature enable key is needed? From: David Bolen <db3l@ans.net> Date: 1998-07-31 17:57:57
Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com> writes:
> Yes, perhaps 3Com realized that the feature key idea for modem
> modulations was *really* ignorant (IMHO)
Well, I don't really disagree with their approach of making it a new
feature in the early days, but it's plain strange (replace with your
own word choice) that it hasn't yet been permanently enabled on the
quads (just as they originally had ISDN as a feature and then
converted) - particularly given that the HDMs don't pay any attention
to the key.
I will admit though, that it provides the only non-intrusive mechanism
(on the quads) for disabling/activating the higher speed modulations,
so it's got a silver lining that I know we've used to our advantage.
-- David
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Show x2/v90 connect speed? From: David G. O'Brien <growler@ac.net> Date: 1998-07-31 18:03:42
I use the TCM on win95 to pull them out of the performace monitor
shows nice table of the connect speeds and the modulation type and all
kinds of useful info.
-Dave
At 06:49 AM 8/1/98 +0900, you wrote:
>How can you show on HiperARC if a connection is x2 or v90?
>
>User says they are connected at 49kbit with x2, but HiperARC shows:
>
>HiPer>> sh int slot:1/mod:1
>
>INTERFACE slot:1/mod:1 SETTINGS
>Description: GWC Modem Driver
>Type: RS232
>Speed: 33333
>High Speed: 0
>Administrative Status: Up
>Operational Status: Up
>
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Subject:Re:(usr-tc) Show x2/v90 connect speed? From: jcusmano@westcon.com Date: 1998-07-31 18:06:39
In Total Control Manager, run Performance Monitor and you will get all the=20=
info
you need=2E
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How can you show on HiperARC if a connection is x2 or v90?
User says they are connected at 49kbit with x2, but HiperARC shows:
HiPer>> sh int slot:1/mod:1
INTERFACE slot:1/mod:1 SETTINGS
Description: GWC Modem Driver
Type: RS232
Speed: 33333
High Speed: 0
Administrative Status: Up
Operational Status: Up
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Subject:(usr-tc) RIPv2 not working on 4.0.30? From: Andres Kroonmaa <andre@ml.ee> Date: 1998-07-31 19:52:30
Its strange, I've done all there is to make ripv2 to work on ARC.
But it doesn't send anything out.
The only way I can make it sending packets though is when I enable
RIP authentication. But I really don't want to change settings on
8+ boxes just because that damned thing won't talk otherwise.
Whats wrong, krish?
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Subject:(usr-tc) Frame Relay From: Kevin Lauer <lauerk@erinet.com> Date: 1998-07-31 20:26:03
Hello,
I'm trying to set up a chassis for frame relay, and just wanted to know
a few things.
-Can anybody tell me if the default LMI type used by the NetServer is
ANSI?
-Also, does it use the IETF standard for frame relay encapsulation?
TIA,
-Kevin
Subject:(usr-tc) mrtg and TCH solution From: Eric Billeter <ebilleter@cableone.net> Date: 1998-07-31 22:21:14
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Here is my solution to the MRTG / Total control usage
monitoring.
The zip has 4 files
mrtg sample cfg
hiperdsp.pl
tch-pri.pl
tch-t1.pl
Warning.. I am not a programmer.. I hate programming.. but I
hated not having the information easily more so.
Please don't criticize my code.. I already know there are
better ways to do things.
The nice thing about this way is if you take a circuit out of use,
it is not counted in your modem totals.
I use the 2 values returned for the current connections and the
capacity of the chassis.
I haven't tested it with mixed quad/dsp chassis either. I'll leave
that up to you.
Let me know what y'all think
Thanks
Eric T. Billeter Cable One
Internet Engineer 1314 North 3rd Street
ebilleter@cableone.net Phoenix, AZ 85004
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Subject:Re: (usr-tc) Why Is USR's Brand Being Destroyed? Fire Those 3Com Assholes! From: Bob Purdon <bobp@southcom.com.au> Date: 1998-08-01 01:26:00
> I'm finding the opposite here - with USR we had excellent support. Now
> we're getting a much lower level of service :-(
Having said that, over the last few hours we've had some pretty good
response from 3COM. We now have a new revision NETserver card and
hopefully all is well.
I'm very impressed with today's efforts...
Regards,
Bob Purdon,
Technical Manager,
Southern Internet Services.
How can you show on HiperARC if a connection is x2 or v90?
User says they are connected at 49kbit with x2, but HiperARC shows:
HiPer>> sh int slot:1/mod:1
INTERFACE slot:1/mod:1 SETTINGS
Description: GWC Modem Driver
Type: RS232
Speed: 33333
High Speed: 0
Administrative Status: Up
Operational Status: Up
Subject:(usr-tc) When x2/v90 feature enable key is needed? From: Goemon Ishikawa <goemon@hirune.gol.ad.jp> Date: 1998-08-01 06:52:01
When is x2/v90 feature enable key needed?
Using TCM, NMC says x2/v90 feature is disabled. But HiperDSP says
x2/v90 is enabled.
3com tech support says, feature x2/v90 enable key is only needed for Quad
cards, and not HiperARC+HiperDSP.
Is this true?