On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Jeff Haas wrote:
> Harry Dijkstra of CyberComm was heard to say:
> > > > Well, about every day's all the bri's on the livingston are death. We now
> > > > have the problem on 4 systems.
> > >
> > > Are these european BRI's? And I am assuming English is not your first
> > > language? Every how many days?
> >
> > Well, yeah. I'm from Holland. Yes, they are european BRI's
> > Sometimes it's every day, sometimes it's once every 3 or 4 days.
>
> I've spent too much time debugging this type of problem.
>
> In our case, it was due to what our telco (Ameritech) is calling
> "routine exercise" on the line. At some regular period of time, they
> will remove the BRI from service, do some quick tests, and put it back
> into service. They *generally* don't do this if there is a call on the
> line.