September 2001 - USR-TC - mailman.xmission.com

(usr-tc) TC Stops routing
by Scot Desort 25 Sep '01

25 Sep '01

I am running HiperARC 4.1.59. We have not changed any code or setting on this box for over a year. Of late, the call volume into this box has been very high, often maxing it out (this box only has 4 PRI's on HiperDSP's coming into it). Suddenly, every 10 days or so, users are no longer to route to anything outside of the TC box. They can connect. They can ping the ethernet port on the TC, but anything beyond that dies. I can dial into another TC box and telnet to this TC, so the ethernet port is actually responding to traffic from outside interfaces. It's just that users connected to that physical box can't route out. Issuing a reboot command at the HARC console corrects the problem for another week or 2. Is there anything I should be looking for that might be causing this? Is this a memory issue (wouldn't think so with only 4 PRI's connected)? Is this a code issue - I know the code rev is a little old, but is has proven very stable for us in every other aspect. Never once experienced the hung modem pairs on this box. When call volume into this box was lower, it had been running without a reboot for 16 months. I am not running RIP or OSPF on this box either. Any thoughts? -- Scot - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo(a)xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.

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Re: (usr-tc) V.92 Ripoff (fwd)
by Dayton Internet 25 Sep '01

25 Sep '01

Especially now that the other vendors who have v.92 product with 1 year free support are giving up to $5000 trade per 96 port unit it looks like some more of us are going to be come x-3com. I especially dont like the thumb in the nose that I got from 3com's president after several email dialogs and seemingly a viable discussion, then suddenly nothing......even tho I re-emailed several times. P.S. I still have 100 shares of 3Com stock! That makes me a shareholder. Did you hear about the Sony chairman giving attention to his shareholders because he doesnt want to "lose face"! --Rich Adams, President-Dayton Internet Services, Dayton, Ohio-- --w8mfd(a)dayton.net--www.dayton.net--www.dayton.com--937-586-2500-- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 17:49:55 -0400 From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm(a)iglou.com> Reply-To: usr-tc(a)lists.xmission.com To: usr-tc(a)lists.xmission.com Subject: Re: (usr-tc) V.92 Ripoff Also sprach John Scrivner >Do you think USR 3 Commworks will figure out that most of their future >growth is running away from them for EOLing all of their older gear? If >I had a say in their company I would tell the engineers to get busy >real fast and develop a FREE upgrade for V.92 for all cards from Quad >through the 96 Port cards. I have been bled enough and so has the >majority of the other ISP's I talk to. We are getting ready for the >cold season when everyone buys ports. Will you be buying TC's? I doubt >I will. Given that they've been told this, explicitely, multiple times and they exhibit no evidence of understanding this. No. Someone seriously needs to slap Irfan Ali upside the head a bit and get him to realize this. Perhaps someone needs to slap Bruce Claflin upside the head to get him to realize the situation as it exists with CommWorks and us. I am personally still astounded that Al Huefner still has a job with CommWorks. If I were the 3Com shareholder and knew the situation as I know it as a customer of 3Com, I'd be considering filing a shareholder lawsuit at the clear incompetence exhibited by not putting this man on the street. He is personally responsible for the support policies at CommWorks, and therefore is personally responsible for the vast majority of CommWorks' customer loses over the past 3 years. As a reminder...3Com uses standard email addresses for employees, so email can be sent to these people, and anyone else in the company, by using the pattern firstname_lastname(a)3com.com. al_huefner(a)3com.com irfan_ali(a)3com.com bruce_claflin(a)3com.com That all is, of course, unless your me and your email is blocked at their email server, because of some bogus claims of violating 3Com's security. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm(a)iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456 - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo(a)xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo(a)xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.

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(usr-tc) V.92 Ripoff
by John Scrivner 24 Sep '01

24 Sep '01

Do you think USR 3 Commworks will figure out that most of their future growth is running away from them for EOLing all of their older gear? If I had a say in their company I would tell the engineers to get busy real fast and develop a FREE upgrade for V.92 for all cards from Quad through the 96 Port cards. I have been bled enough and so has the majority of the other ISP's I talk to. We are getting ready for the cold season when everyone buys ports. Will you be buying TC's? I doubt I will. John Scrivner - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo(a)xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.

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(usr-tc) Edgeserver Pro Card & Quad Modems not talking
by notuteye＠mail.ucomgh.com 24 Sep '01

24 Sep '01

Can somebody help me with one of the weirdest problems? I have 4xquad analog/digital modem cards in a total control hub. I also have an NMC and an Edgeserver Pro card. The strange thing is that the modems do not detect or respond to incoming calls. I have configured them as per the edgeserver documentation and have set dip switches 3,5&8 up. I have also followed to the letter every step in the edgeserver config. Can anybody offer advice on this? -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo(a)xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.

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(usr-tc) Used HiperDSPs
by Jobe Bittman 24 Sep '01

24 Sep '01

I am trying to find 2 used HiperDSPs. Our company has emailed and called the ISP-NETWROKHARDWARE guy who's always advertising on the list, but still haven't heard back. Has anyone dealt with these people before or can anyone suggest another place to pick up a couple used DSPs? Thank you, Jobe Bittman System Administrator Terracom Network Services - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo(a)xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.

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(usr-tc) PRI NFAS configuration and removal
by Mark Thornton 19 Sep '01

19 Sep '01

I have a HyperDSP that was a member of a NFAS group that I am trying to set up without an NFAS group. I cannot find where to turn off NFAS. The docs are not very descriptive of the NFAS commands anyway, and I have found no reference to deleting NFAS. Anyone have some experience they can share? Mark Thornton San Marcos Internet, Inc 512-393-5300 - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo(a)xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.

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(usr-tc) T1 vs. E1 Hiper DSP's
by Mark Thornton 17 Sep '01

17 Sep '01

Is there a difference in the T1 and E1 DSP's? Can an E1 DSP be configured as a T1 DSP? Mark Thornton - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo(a)xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.

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(usr-tc) EMERGENCY - Help with Netserver LAN-LAN
by Charles Sprickman 16 Sep '01

16 Sep '01

Hello, We've lost the router that provides backhaul at one of our POPs in downtown Manhattan. Our equipment is in the restricted zone east of the World Trade Center area, so we are unable to reach it for repairs, and have so far been unable to contact the personnel on duty for assistance in verifying the status of the router. As a workaround, I'm looking to do some hackery. The only POP we have physical access to has lots of spare POTS lines, and an old Netserver-based 45A chassis. The crippled POP has ARCs, and I can dial in and authenticate locally to get access to the CLI. What I would like to do is the following: -set up a local user on the arc that has no session timeout and allows up to 8 sessions to be bonded together with MLPPP -set up the netserver to dial out on 8 POTS lines to the crippled location and log in as the user set up above -set the default route on the ARC to point to the dial-in session Essentially I want to get bandwidth from POP to POP via 8 POTS lines as a band-aid measure until I can get to the crippled POP to replace/reboot/repair the router. It will be slow, but... better than nothing, which is what we've got. My main problems are: -can I point default to a dialed-in session on the arc, and how -my netserver skills have really faded... -I'm thinking I'll get stuck on MLPPP, setting up the local user to dial out, and nailing the session up. Anyone around that can answer that arc question (and give some hints on making a local user) and/or remembers a good deal about the netserver cli? Thanks, Charles | Charles Sprickman | Internet Channel | INCH System Administration Team | (212)243-5200 | spork(a)inch.com | access(a)inch.com - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo(a)xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.

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(usr-tc) TCM software upload/tftp
by Charles Sprickman 10 Sep '01

10 Sep '01

Hi, How exactly does the software upload feature work in TCM? I've been trying to update some cards from behind a firewall, and have not had much luck. I've opened up incoming tftp (udp port 69), but I still get the "tftp timed out" error. Is there a (semi) easy way to just do this with ucd-snmp, some perl, a tftp server, and the correct OID's? How are the cards indexed for software download? Thanks, Charles | Charles Sprickman | Internet Channel | INCH System Administration Team | (212)243-5200 | spork(a)inch.com | access(a)inch.com - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo(a)xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.

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Re: (usr-tc) Flashing Hyper Arc
by David DenHollander 10 Sep '01

10 Sep '01

How do you flash the ARC card from the console port? I've only tried it through the ethernet port. Please reply to jdn(a)adoptable.com Thanks, JD >Return-Path: <owner-usr-tc(a)lists.xmission.com> >Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:56:28 +0900 >From: Jonathan Byrne <byrnej(a)gol.com> >To: usr-tc(a)lists.xmission.com >Subject: Re: (usr-tc) Flashing Hyper Arc >Mail-Followup-To: usr-tc(a)lists.xmission.com >X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse(a)gol.com >Sender: owner-usr-tc(a)lists.xmission.com >Reply-To: usr-tc(a)lists.xmission.com > >Steve Johnson (linuxnut(a)sonic.net) wrote: > >> smoothly untill I hit 80% then I get an TFTP error, Access Violation and it > >I see also, but see it a lot less on 128 meg ARCs. If it's >nearby, I just go there and flash it over the console port, which >works fine. > >Cheers, > >Jonathan >-------- ><PLUG TYPE="shameless"> >Leaving Japan end of September, available for employment in California. ></PLUG> > > >- > To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo(a)xmission.com" > with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. > For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send > "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. > David DenHollander (403)254-1100 Main (403)201-2815 Fax List your equipment for free http://www.adoptable.com/ - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo(a)xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.

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