Re: ASCEND brain-dead implementation? Or something else
Karl Denninger (karl@Mcs.Net)
Thu, 3 Apr 1997 17:19:49 -0600
On Thu, Apr 03, 1997 at 03:11:00PM -0800, Kevin Smith wrote:
> At 07:44 PM 4/2/97 -0600, you wrote:
> >MPP, and OSPF for routing on our end. No routing on the customer side.
>
> MP....since MPP is Ascend's MP+ (RFC1934)...
>
> >The problem is the timeout on the PM3 interfaces. Since it appears ASCEND
> >is only transmitting on ONE channel, the timeout never gets reset, and the
> >line drops.
>
> Was this sent before the customer fixed the P50 - or is this still at issue?
>
> >My understanding of MPP is that this is broken behavior; you WANT to
> >ping-pong between logical interfaces.
>
> Correct. (Of both MP and MP+).
>
>
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It is no longer an issue, HOWEVER, I would think that an "nvram" rebuild
*should* be automatic on an upgrade, no?
You're going to get a lot of people who get burned by this misbehavior,
since its not at all obvious that there is a problem.
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