Re: How do you spot bad telco lines and/or modems

Steve Davies (steve@iafrica.com)
Fri, 17 Nov 1995 09:16:47 +0200 (GMT+0200)

On Thu, 16 Nov 1995, Larry Vaden wrote:

> Using multiple PM2e30s, what techniques are in use to spot the telco
> lines/modems that users report as offering an answer, but not connecting?
>
> Our telco CO has a limit of 15 lines in an individually addressable hunt
> group, therefore our incoming lines are not individually addressable.
>
> Using USR 28.8 Sportsters.
>
> Is there a way to get an ATI6 type log?

Here is what we have started doing:

Every night we scan the syslog output on our machine, and count the
number of logins recorded by our Portmasters on each port. We then
generate a list sorted by the number of logins. One can examine this
report regularly and easily see which ports are not getting any logins.

Steve