(usr-tc) SNMP went away...
Ever since I upgraded my HiPer ARC, snmp didn't work, so I started poking around... The last release I had seemed to have it on by default, whereas this one (4.2.32-1) seems to not; although it did allow me to script my additions of communities and whatnot without any complaints. So I did a "add netWORK seRVICE snmp serVER_TYPE snmpd enABLED yes". But was still unable to get any data. Looked at it, and it showed this status: HiPer-1>> list network SERVICES CONFIGURED NETWORK SERVICES Server Admin Name Type Socket Close Status snmp SNMPD 161 FALSE DISABLED tftpd TFTPD 69 FALSE ENABLED telnetd TELNETD FALSE ENABLED Issued "enabLE netWORK serVICE snmp", and it still says "disabled". What am I missing here? The manual makes no mention of doing anything beyond adding the service and even states it should be enabled by default when added... Any clues? Thanks, Charles -- =-----------------= = | Charles Sprickman Internet Channel | | INCH System Administration Team (212)243-5200 | | spork@inch.com access@inch.com | = =----------------= - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@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.
Community names? Mike Andrews (MA12) * mandrews@dcr.net * http://www.bit0.com/ VP, sysadmin, & network guy, Digital Crescent Inc, Frankfort KY Internet services for Frankfort, Lawrenceburg, Owenton, Shelbyville "Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things." On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Charles Sprickman wrote:
Ever since I upgraded my HiPer ARC, snmp didn't work, so I started poking around... The last release I had seemed to have it on by default, whereas this one (4.2.32-1) seems to not; although it did allow me to script my additions of communities and whatnot without any complaints.
So I did a "add netWORK seRVICE snmp serVER_TYPE snmpd enABLED yes".
But was still unable to get any data. Looked at it, and it showed this status:
HiPer-1>> list network SERVICES
CONFIGURED NETWORK SERVICES Server Admin Name Type Socket Close Status snmp SNMPD 161 FALSE DISABLED
tftpd TFTPD 69 FALSE ENABLED
telnetd TELNETD FALSE ENABLED
Issued "enabLE netWORK serVICE snmp", and it still says "disabled". What am I missing here? The manual makes no mention of doing anything beyond adding the service and even states it should be enabled by default when added...
Any clues?
Thanks,
Charles
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No, I tried it also and : CONFIGURED NETWORK SERVICES Name Type Socket Close Status snmp SNMPD 161 FALSE DISABLED SNMP TRAP COMMUNITIES IP Address Community Pool Validate Address public 208.149.160.15 useAddress H running arc 4.1.22 NMC 6.2.17. Paul Farber Farber Technology farber@admin.f-tech.net Ph 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545 On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Mike Andrews wrote:
Community names?
Mike Andrews (MA12) * mandrews@dcr.net * http://www.bit0.com/ VP, sysadmin, & network guy, Digital Crescent Inc, Frankfort KY Internet services for Frankfort, Lawrenceburg, Owenton, Shelbyville "Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Charles Sprickman wrote:
Ever since I upgraded my HiPer ARC, snmp didn't work, so I started poking around... The last release I had seemed to have it on by default, whereas this one (4.2.32-1) seems to not; although it did allow me to script my additions of communities and whatnot without any complaints.
So I did a "add netWORK seRVICE snmp serVER_TYPE snmpd enABLED yes".
But was still unable to get any data. Looked at it, and it showed this status:
HiPer-1>> list network SERVICES
CONFIGURED NETWORK SERVICES Server Admin Name Type Socket Close Status snmp SNMPD 161 FALSE DISABLED
tftpd TFTPD 69 FALSE ENABLED
telnetd TELNETD FALSE ENABLED
Issued "enabLE netWORK serVICE snmp", and it still says "disabled". What am I missing here? The manual makes no mention of doing anything beyond adding the service and even states it should be enabled by default when added...
Any clues?
Thanks,
Charles
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Thus spake Paul Farber
No, I tried it also and :
CONFIGURED NETWORK SERVICES Name Type Socket Close Status snmp SNMPD 161 FALSE DISABLED
SNMP TRAP COMMUNITIES IP Address Community Pool Validate Address public 208.149.160.15 useAddress H
running arc 4.1.22 NMC 6.2.17.
Looks like you configured the community names for your traps, but not for regular (client initiated) access. These are seperately configured...configuring one doesn't apply to the other. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@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@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.
Hmm... I can snmpwalk the ARC card [farber@admin ]$ snmpwalk arc-ii XXXXXXXX | more system.sysDescr.0 = "3Com Corporation HiPer Access Router Card Built on Oct 22 1999 at 11:28:15." system.sysObjectID.0 = OID: enterprises.usRobotics.usrSysOIDs.usrHiPerArc system.sysUpTime.0 = Timeticks: (115566772) 13 days, 9:01:07.72 system.sysContact.0 = "Paul Farber" system.sysName.0 = "ARC-II" system.sysLocation.0 = "570-628-5303" system.sysServices.0 = 76 interfaces.ifNumber.0 = 220 interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifIndex.1 = 1 interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifIndex.2 = 2 interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifIndex.3 = 3 interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifIndex.4 = 4 interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifIndex.5 = 5 interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifIndex.6 = 6 interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifIndex.7 = 7 interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifIndex.8 = 8 interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifIndex.9 = 9 interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifIndex.10 = 10 interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifIndex.11 = 11 interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifIndex.12 = 12 even though the snmpd service is not running??? I will admit to not knowing much about the 'services'. Paul Farber Farber Technology farber@admin.f-tech.net Ph 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545 On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Jeff Mcadams wrote:
Thus spake Paul Farber
No, I tried it also and :
CONFIGURED NETWORK SERVICES Name Type Socket Close Status snmp SNMPD 161 FALSE DISABLED
SNMP TRAP COMMUNITIES IP Address Community Pool Validate Address public 208.149.160.15 useAddress H
running arc 4.1.22 NMC 6.2.17.
Looks like you configured the community names for your traps, but not for regular (client initiated) access. These are seperately configured...configuring one doesn't apply to the other. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456
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Thus spake Paul Farber
Hmm... I can snmpwalk the ARC card
Then everything is working on the Arc...go forth and be happy. :) Actually...it could mean that you have read-only access and not read-write...but the SNMP agent is running and responding at least. :) -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@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@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.
Yeah but it says disabled :( I don't really write to the ARC card at all.... so I'm not missing anything. Paul Farber Farber Technology farber@admin.f-tech.net Ph 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545 On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Jeff Mcadams wrote:
Thus spake Paul Farber
Hmm... I can snmpwalk the ARC card
Then everything is working on the Arc...go forth and be happy. :)
Actually...it could mean that you have read-only access and not read-write...but the SNMP agent is running and responding at least. :) -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456
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At 09:33 PM 1/24/00 -0500, Jeff Mcadams wrote:
Thus spake Paul Farber
Hmm... I can snmpwalk the ARC card
Then everything is working on the Arc...go forth and be happy. :)
Actually...it could mean that you have read-only access and not read-write...but the SNMP agent is running and responding at least. :)
SNMP doesn't even show up in my CONFIGURED NETWORK SERVICES, yet MRTG is pulling stats fine... -- Kirk Mitchell-General Manager mitch@keyconn.net Keystone Connect Unlock Your World Altoona, PA 814-941-5000/886-2500 http://www.keyconn.net - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@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.
|-----Original Message----- |From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com |[mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of K Mitchell |Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 8:52 PM |To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com |Subject: Re: (usr-tc) SNMP went away... | | |At 09:33 PM 1/24/00 -0500, Jeff Mcadams wrote: |>Thus spake Paul Farber |>>Hmm... I can snmpwalk the ARC card |> |>Then everything is working on the Arc...go forth and be happy. :) |> |>Actually...it could mean that you have read-only access and not |>read-write...but the SNMP agent is running and responding at least. :) | |SNMP doesn't even show up in my CONFIGURED NETWORK SERVICES, yet MRTG is |pulling stats fine... | The SNMPD network service is not currently used by the Hiper ARC. Configuring it has nothing to do with being able to use SNMP on the HARC. All that is required is setting up the proper community strings. You DO NOT need to add the service. -M - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@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.
Then it's an easter egg of some sort? Wonder what other unused code is floating around the ARC flash memory??? Paul Farber Farber Technology farber@admin.f-tech.net Ph 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545 On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Mike Wronski wrote:
|-----Original Message----- |From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com |[mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of K Mitchell |Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 8:52 PM |To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com |Subject: Re: (usr-tc) SNMP went away... | | |At 09:33 PM 1/24/00 -0500, Jeff Mcadams wrote: |>Thus spake Paul Farber |>>Hmm... I can snmpwalk the ARC card |> |>Then everything is working on the Arc...go forth and be happy. :) |> |>Actually...it could mean that you have read-only access and not |>read-write...but the SNMP agent is running and responding at least. :) | |SNMP doesn't even show up in my CONFIGURED NETWORK SERVICES, yet MRTG is |pulling stats fine... |
The SNMPD network service is not currently used by the Hiper ARC. Configuring it has nothing to do with being able to use SNMP on the HARC. All that is required is setting up the proper community strings. You DO NOT need to add the service.
-M
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I guess it's a combination of two things: I'd just moved these racks to new ips and had completely forgotten the snmp polling box has some ipfw rules on it that only allowed snmp from my old address block I was using. So after looking at all the router access lists and all I started digging through the arc v4.2 manual for snmp goodies, thinking the upgrade busted my snmp... That brought me to the "network services" stuff, which apparently is broken as far as telling you the state of snmpd... Thanks, Charles -- =-----------------= = | Charles Sprickman Internet Channel | | INCH System Administration Team (212)243-5200 | | spork@inch.com access@inch.com | = =----------------= On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Paul Farber wrote:
No, I tried it also and :
CONFIGURED NETWORK SERVICES Name Type Socket Close Status snmp SNMPD 161 FALSE DISABLED
SNMP TRAP COMMUNITIES IP Address Community Pool Validate Address public 208.149.160.15 useAddress H
running arc 4.1.22 NMC 6.2.17.
Paul Farber Farber Technology farber@admin.f-tech.net Ph 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Mike Andrews wrote:
Community names?
Mike Andrews (MA12) * mandrews@dcr.net * http://www.bit0.com/ VP, sysadmin, & network guy, Digital Crescent Inc, Frankfort KY Internet services for Frankfort, Lawrenceburg, Owenton, Shelbyville "Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Charles Sprickman wrote:
Ever since I upgraded my HiPer ARC, snmp didn't work, so I started poking around... The last release I had seemed to have it on by default, whereas this one (4.2.32-1) seems to not; although it did allow me to script my additions of communities and whatnot without any complaints.
So I did a "add netWORK seRVICE snmp serVER_TYPE snmpd enABLED yes".
But was still unable to get any data. Looked at it, and it showed this status:
HiPer-1>> list network SERVICES
CONFIGURED NETWORK SERVICES Server Admin Name Type Socket Close Status snmp SNMPD 161 FALSE DISABLED
tftpd TFTPD 69 FALSE ENABLED
telnetd TELNETD FALSE ENABLED
Issued "enabLE netWORK serVICE snmp", and it still says "disabled". What am I missing here? The manual makes no mention of doing anything beyond adding the service and even states it should be enabled by default when added...
Any clues?
Thanks,
Charles
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Has the industry changed the acceptable modem ratio or is it still 8.0? I'm curious to find out if it's changed due to changing usage demands.
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Has the industry changed the acceptable modem ratio or is it still 8.0? I'm curious to find out if it's changed due to changing usage demands.
We don't monitor user-modem ratios...we just watch and as we start getting close to filling our lines we add more. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@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@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.
Do you patrol the modem usage to control abusers in any way? If so, how do you implement it in a positive way that doesn't offend the customers? I'm asking because this has become a bit of a problem with a few users who have decided that "unlimited" means just that. We do have an AUP that defines acceptable usage but I try to avoid being heavy handed with the clients. I don't really want session limits because I understand someone may need 24 hours to download the entire Linux anthology or NT upgrade and getting kicked off would be inappropriate. We are surviving with an 8:1 ratio at this time, but the ratio does seem to be declining slowly. Mark Thornton San Marcos Internet, Inc. 512-393-5300 ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com> To: <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 8:06 AM Subject: Re: (usr-tc) What Modem Ratio do you use?
Thus spake Brian Gordon
Has the industry changed the acceptable modem ratio or is it still 8.0? I'm curious to find out if it's changed due to changing usage demands.
We don't monitor user-modem ratios...we just watch and as we start getting close to filling our lines we add more. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456
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Thus spake Mark Thornton
Do you patrol the modem usage to control abusers in any way? If so, how do you implement it in a positive way that doesn't offend the customers? I'm asking because this has become a bit of a problem with a few users who have decided that "unlimited" means just that.
Well...first off, we make sure we don't use the term "unlimited" in any of our marketing material. :)
We do have an AUP that defines acceptable usage but I try to avoid being heavy handed with the clients. I don't really want session limits because I understand someone may need 24 hours to download the entire Linux anthology or NT upgrade and getting kicked off would be inappropriate. We are surviving with an 8:1 ratio at this time, but the ratio does seem to be declining slowly.
We do have session limits at 12 hours I think. We very rarely, if ever, have any complaints about them. What we've found, is that of the people that do complain about them, they're generally the people that are trying to make a $19.95/month account function as a dedicated line...thus we're loosing money on them and if they get ticked off at us and leave...its no loss to us...that frees our modems up for other customers that *do* make us money. Most things that would require that much download time can be done in chunks, not all at once. Alternatively...many sites support "reget" now in ftp, so that takes care of the problem as well. :) -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@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@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.
Well...first off, we make sure we don't use the term "unlimited" in any of our marketing material. :)
Neither do we. We use the term flatrate, but the general population seems to translate that on the fly.
We do have session limits at 12 hours I think. We very rarely, if ever,
That sounds reasonable. I may add that to our system.
Most things that would require that much download time can be done in chunks, not all at once. Alternatively...many sites support "reget" now in ftp, so that takes care of the problem as well. :)
I had forgotten about that added functionality. Do you ever proactively ask an abuser to find another provider? Mark Thornton San Marcos Internet, Inc. 512-393-5300 - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@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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Do you ever proactively ask an abuser to find another provider?
Not as such...we will occasionally tell a user that to continue service with us, we'll have to switch the account to a dedicated account...which amounts to the same thing, but can't really be construed as kicking them off. :) -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@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@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.
At 11:27 AM 1/25/00 -0500, Jeff Mcadams wrote:
Thus spake Mark Thornton
Do you patrol the modem usage to control abusers in any way? If so, how do you implement it in a positive way that doesn't offend the customers? I'm asking because this has become a bit of a problem with a few users who have decided that "unlimited" means just that.
Well...first off, we make sure we don't use the term "unlimited" in any of our marketing material. :)
Ditto here
We do have session limits at 12 hours I think. We very rarely, if ever, have any complaints about them.
We've had our session limit at 10 with no complaints. We drop the limit to 8 hours in the (we need to add a PRI) - (PRI gets installed) timeframe, then raise it back up. Actually we could probably get away with leaving it at 8 since nobody seems to notice. Our ratio, BTW, rarely gets far above 6:1 before we start seeing busies. Throughout the industry, this ratio seems to be dropping slowly as people use the Internet for more things. It's a 'Catch 22'...we want people to rely more on computers/Internet for their entertainment and information gathering, but this increased dependence also means that we need, on average, to dedicate more resources to servicing each customer. -- Kirk Mitchell-General Manager mitch@keyconn.net Keystone Connect Unlock Your World Altoona, PA 814-941-5000/886-2500 http://www.keyconn.net - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@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.
I have a session limit at 6 hours. It's gets the lazy people and the kiddies who just like to have a connection up. Some do complian.. but they quickly quiet down when I point out the service agreement they signed (and read.. hahahahha) Paul Farber Farber Technology farber@admin.f-tech.net Ph 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545 On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, K Mitchell wrote:
At 11:27 AM 1/25/00 -0500, Jeff Mcadams wrote:
Thus spake Mark Thornton
Do you patrol the modem usage to control abusers in any way? If so, how do you implement it in a positive way that doesn't offend the customers? I'm asking because this has become a bit of a problem with a few users who have decided that "unlimited" means just that.
Well...first off, we make sure we don't use the term "unlimited" in any of our marketing material. :)
Ditto here
We do have session limits at 12 hours I think. We very rarely, if ever, have any complaints about them.
We've had our session limit at 10 with no complaints. We drop the limit to 8 hours in the (we need to add a PRI) - (PRI gets installed) timeframe, then raise it back up. Actually we could probably get away with leaving it at 8 since nobody seems to notice. Our ratio, BTW, rarely gets far above 6:1 before we start seeing busies. Throughout the industry, this ratio seems to be dropping slowly as people use the Internet for more things. It's a 'Catch 22'...we want people to rely more on computers/Internet for their entertainment and information gathering, but this increased dependence also means that we need, on average, to dedicate more resources to servicing each customer.
-- Kirk Mitchell-General Manager mitch@keyconn.net Keystone Connect Unlock Your World Altoona, PA 814-941-5000/886-2500 http://www.keyconn.net
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Jeff Mcadams wrote:
We don't monitor user-modem ratios...we just watch and as we start getting close to filling our lines we add more.
That's what we do here. And over the past few years, I've noticed that more-lines-time happens as the ratio approaches 8/1. 7-7.5 seems to be the sweet spot where nobody gets (unreasonable) busy signals yet there's good utilization of the lines. [when I talk about reasonable busy signals, I'm meaning that sure, they *occasionally* get a busy, but an *immediate* redial gets 'em in] Then again, we don't play that silly 'unlimited' marketing game where we say it but don't mean it. We set a soft limit of 150/hours per month; if they go over, they get another $10 tacked onto their bill (which gives 'em another 100 hour block. Cycle repeats at 250, etc). Sure, a (very) few potential customers don't sign up because we won't say unlimited, but in my experience they're the PIA's anyway. Most of 'em see the light when we mention that 150 hours/month is about 5 hours per day, every single day, and they realize that they won't use anywhere near that. And I get a marketing bonus as well. No extra charge for multi-channel use. Hook up that shotgun modem. Feel free to log on at work while your family is also connected at home...I don't care, each channel just adds to their limit (2channels for 1 hour == 2hours). No headaches for me policing simultaneous use, and I actually like it when people want to stay on 24x7. *grin* Not to mention that I don't have to have any strange clauses in my contracts which attempt to redefine what 'unlimited' means, or force my opinions on what constitutes a valid connection. - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@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.
I thought the industry standard was 10.0 not 8.0... but that would explain why we've always had to run at about 7 to 7.5 here... Mike Andrews (MA12) * mandrews@dcr.net * http://www.bit0.com/ VP, sysadmin, & network guy, Digital Crescent Inc, Frankfort KY Internet services for Frankfort, Lawrenceburg, Owenton, Shelbyville "Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things." On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Brian Gordon wrote:
Has the industry changed the acceptable modem ratio or is it still 8.0? I'm curious to find out if it's changed due to changing usage demands.
Brian Gordon MCP, A+, Network + Network Administrator Westelcom Internet 518.566.6726 Voice 419.831.9137 Fax http://www.westelcom.com administrator@westelcom.com
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If I go more that 5-1 I get people to cancel! Paul Farber Farber Technology farber@admin.f-tech.net Ph 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545 On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Brian Gordon wrote:
Has the industry changed the acceptable modem ratio or is it still 8.0? I'm curious to find out if it's changed due to changing usage demands.
Brian Gordon MCP, A+, Network + Network Administrator Westelcom Internet 518.566.6726 Voice 419.831.9137 Fax http://www.westelcom.com administrator@westelcom.com
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I have a chassis configured thusly (all cards have latest code): 1 Dual PRI 6 quad ana/digi modem cards 6 digital modem cards 2 HiPerDSPs 1 HiPerARC 1 NMC 2 PSUs Coming into the PRI card are two ISDN spans. Span2 is merrily taking calls; all 6 modem cards are filling up nicely. Span1 is NOT taking calls...none of the cards are in use. When the first span fills up, I tried dialing into the lead number and get a voice message "I'm sorry...we are unable to complete your call..." The only difference between the two sets of cards is what I noted above. The first six are analog/digital. Is it possible these cards are unable to receive calls from an ISDN? Thus far, I have: 1] Gone through *all* the settings, the only thing different was ISDN Modem Call Control Option/V110 Rate Adaption which was ENable on the ana/digi cards and DISabled on the digital cards. I disabled it on the ana/digi cards to no avail. 2] Then, I compared the settings for the two ISDNs on the PRI card. Nothing odd or out of wack there. 3] Then I got Bell Atlantic on the job looking to see if somehow the size of the pool got set back on their switch. Meanwhile, I though I'd ask the list and see if you all had any clues to pass me. Thanks! ********************************************************* Michelle M. Mogil Network and Computing Systems 721 Rhodes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 vox: (607) 255-0516, fax: (607) 255-8420 email: mmm3@cornell.edu ********************************************** - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@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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Brian Gordon -
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K Mitchell -
Lon R. Stockton, Jr. -
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Mike Andrews -
Mike Wronski -
mmm3＠cornell.edu -
Paul Farber