Fewer Modem Cards

Jon Rust (jpr@vcnet.com)
Wed, 23 Jul 97 12:05:03 -0700

It finally occured to me that with a user base of both ISDN and analog
customers, it's HIGHLY unlikely that all 46 modems (48 for some of us)
will ever be in use. With this in mind, are there any drawbacks to having
only, say, 40 modems worth of cards in a PM-3? It will still work, right?
I mean, it won't turn into a pumpkin or anything will it? :-)

But seriously, besides the chance that >40 analog users will all call in
at one time, with no ISDN callers at all, are there any drawbacks?

For example, right now 11 out of 28 ports in use are ISDN calls in 1 of
my POPs. The other is 5 out of 18.

I've got months of RADIUS logs stored up, I wonder how tough it would be
to parse through them and see what the max modem use was at any one
time...

Thx,
jon