At 12:47 PM 10/12/95 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Dennis:
> Well, it looks like there's more comming out of the woodwork with this
>problem. We've seen it here and are currently working with Livingston to
>figure it out. The guy at the other end of the line from the one that
>first gave us trouble had seen it before also, which is how we knew not
>to bother calling the phone company again.
> I thing you'll find that it works fine if you disconnect the buss cable
>from the main board which goes to the other 2 10 port boards. You should
>also be able to make it go crazy by pingin it with pattern "ff". What
>made me do that was that it was having more problems with binary file
>transfers and image files. Looks like lots of bits on give it trouble.
> We are waiting for our rep at one site to reconnect the other 20 ports
>so we can retest the unit with 3.1.4 (which Brian uploaded to the unit
>the other day). We'll see if that does anything.
> My personal guess is that it's a hardware problem, either ringing on
>the data bus due to termination problems or problems with the drivers at
>the WAN port or supply impeadance feeding those drivers. When we pinged
>that unit with "ff", you'd see the first 4 to 6 characters come bach
>trashed, then the rest would be OK.
> I'll let you know what happens here.
>
>Chuck Scott, Pres.
>Freeway, Inc.
>cscott@freeway.net
>
>
>
Richard J Ihmels
rick@awinc.com
System Admin. / Support
A&W Internet Inc.
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