I'd have to agree with MZ on that.
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Livingston PortMaster PM-25 ComOS 3.5.1b17
System uptime is 67 days 4 hours 26 minutes
Port Speed Mdm Host Type Status Input Output
Pend
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S0 19200 off Device IDLE 8948385 11186
0
S1 115200 on ptp1 Netwrk ESTABLISHED 571098974 3170507239
1353
S2 115200 on ptp2 Netwrk ESTABLISHED 326742410 2677464204
0
S3 115200 on ptp3 Netwrk ESTABLISHED 349839251 2471213044
0
S4 115200 on ptp4 Netwrk ESTABLISHED 422433397 3209195972
1119
S5 115200 on ptp5 Netwrk ESTABLISHED 507978559 2937573324
0
S6 115200 on ptp6 Netwrk ESTABLISHED 413310285 2307534562
0
S7 115200 on ptp7 Netwrk ESTABLISHED 516628670 3268264227
0
S8 115200 on ptp8 Netwrk ESTABLISHED 393866685 2961537754
0
S9 115200 on ptp9 Netwrk ESTABLISHED 439193636 2845024279
0
S10 115200 on ptp10 Netwrk ESTABLISHED 363918159 2552800920
0
S11 115200 on ptp11 Netwrk ESTABLISHED 360262823 3015110771
0
S12 115200 on ptp12 Netwrk ESTABLISHED 437928536 3227222804
0
S13 115200 on ptp13 Netwrk ESTABLISHED 388103492 2541857893
0
S14 115200 on ptp14 Netwrk ESTABLISHED 344565089 2539854874
2855
S15 115200 on ptp15 Netwrk ESTABLISHED 395000919 2608929229
0
S16 115200 on ra1 Login/ IDLE 464153043 2871438632
0
S17 115200 on ptp17 Netwrk ESTABLISHED 285325152 2515435292
0
S18 115200 on ptp18 Netwrk ESTABLISHED 358979658 2650364652
1040
S19 115200 on ptp19 Netwrk ESTABLISHED 361113046 2707218307
0
S20 115200 on ptp20 Netwrk ESTABLISHED 389700767 2915018309
0
S21 115200 on ptp21 Netwrk ESTABLISHED 547167610 3122492715
0
S22 115200 on ptp22 Netwrk ESTABLISHED 414131864 3068086713
0
S23 115200 on ptp23 Netwrk ESTABLISHED 395926444 2786553964
0
S24 115200 on ra1 Login/ IDLE 0 0
0
System memory 1048576 bytes - 975360 used, 73216 available
208:1 2048:8 1152:2 640:3 176:7 128:3 144:9 4240:3 96:36 64:1 80:12 16:279
160:4 32:92 48:31
System nbufs 1400 - 158 used, 1242 available
That is off the box at the front of our hunt group. It has all 23 ports
occupied almost 24 hours a day (probably something like 23:59). Its got
snmp,ospf,ipx running. It just sits there chugging along. The cable for
S24 is screwed but I hate replacing 8 cables to catch one bad one.
And yes I have OSPF jammed into 1 meg of memory. Its called _careful_
setup and haveing the bigger routers filter what updates they send and
only send the TS what it needs to do its job,
>
<SNIP>
>
> The modem code has been a bitch - I'm not happy either. As the most visible
> person to the public on these lists, and a slew of industry lists and
> newsgroups, I get beaten up for it daily - in public. And out field reps
> and support people don't have a picnic either. This is probably the biggest
> issue I've seen in my nearly 2 years (time flies eh?) at Livingston, but I
> can see the end of the tunnel and it will be great to have that over and
> done with.
>
Modems are a pain in the a** so I can only guess the code for em must be
just as bad.
> > There are also the stability issues with the PM3. I have had far to
> >many PM3s lock up, or just freak out, and require a power cycle.
>
> I believe you've told support about these, I would expect you had. I don't
> know what to say about that, since I have other people telling me the PM-3
> is the most stable thing they've ever seen. *shrug* A lot of the telco
> signalling issues were like that - 99% of people are loving it, 1% are in
> hell. We keep eliminating fringe cases and making it better, that's all we
> can do.
Sorry don't run PM-3's here, currently its cheaper here to do the POTS
routine. (besides why fix something that hasn't/isn't broke?) Oh we plan
on the PM-3's for any new purchases, especially when Lucent gets thier
fingers out of thier but and gets that completed and working.
I just flat out refuse to let USR or Ascend equipment IN my NOC. Been
there, done that, didn't work for shit. No thank you.
>
> -MZ
> --
> Livingston Enterprises - Chair, Department of Interstitial Affairs
> Phone: 800-458-9966 510-737-2100 FAX: 510-737-2110 megazone@livingston.com
> For support requests: support@livingston.com <http://www.livingston.com/>
> Snail mail: 4464 Willow Road, Pleasanton, CA 94588
>
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