Why can't Livingston support Stac Compression? This becomes a drag when
clients want to use equipment such as Ascends which at least has
compression options available.
At 08:36 AM 8/11/97 -0500, you wrote:
>On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Ben Gasser wrote:
>
>> Our client has a Novell Netware 3.12 server on there end with the Ascend
>> P50 on an ethernet segment and another segment made up of token ring. The
>> clients are using Internet Explorer 3.02. The clients IP segments are 28
>> bit subnets of our class c. When a user pings a web page from the token
>> side everything seems to be fine, but when they attempt to load a web page
>> they tend to get time out errors.
>
>What do your syslogs say? Are you seeing any dns requests on the dns
>server? Are their machines pointing to the right dns server? What if they
>specify just ip address on the URL line? Do they still get the time outs?
>
>>
>> This problem did not seem to crop up until we went from bridging a P50->P50
>> to routing P50->5Bri.
>>
>>
>> At 01:07 PM 8/5/97 -0400, you wrote:
>> >Ben:
>> >We do this all the time around here. As was stated before, the P50 will
>> >automatically try the second number if the first is busy.
>> >
>> >There may be several reasons why your second call is not completing. Most
>> >likely one or the other BRI is not configured properly. From the P50, try
>> >the following. From System->Diag->Term Server,
>> >do a
>> >show isdn
>> >
>> >command. Make sure that you're not getting any invalid SPID messages.
>> >Then try
>> >
>> >test xxxyyyy
>> >
>> >where "xxxyyyy" is the second telephone number on the P50. That should do
>> >a line-to-line test call. If either of these tests doesn't complete
>> >correctly, you've got a line/P50 configuration problem on the P50 end.
>> >Make sure that the ISDN line is configured properly. We usually ask for
>> >NI-1 with Circuit switched data on both B chanels.
>> >
>> >On the Livingston end, you really should have the lines set up as a hunt
>> >group. We've had trouble where Bell has configured our lines as CSVD
>> >(circuit switched voice + data) on the first B and CSD (circuit switched
>> >data) on the second. On some switches, the combination of voice and
data B
>> >chanels don't hunt properly.
>> >We've corrected that by asking for CSD on all B chanels.
>> >
>> >You can 'attach' to the first port and dial a v.120 isdn call to the
second
>> >port as shown below.
>> >
>> >attach s20
>> >
>> >atd xxxyyyy
>> >
>> >If you can't get a connection, neither will the remote p50.
>> >
>> >
>> >It really sounds like there's an ISDN configuration problem on one or both
>> >ends.
>> >
>> >Hope this helps,
>> >
>> >Bob
>> >
>> >> From: Ben Gasser <netwkhlp@gabs.net>
>> >> To: portmaster-users@livingston.com
>> >> Date: Sunday, August 03, 1997 1:46 PM
>> >> Subject: Ascend P50 -> PM2
>> >>
>> >> >We have have a client who has an Ascend Pipeline 50 and is
attempting to
>> >> >connect into our PM2 with a 5 Bri card. Our problem is bonding both of
>> >> the
>> >> >B channels together, especially since the client will be dialing
into out
>> >> >PM2 using IP.
>> >> >
>> >> >The Pipeline 50 seems to make the call and attach to the first availble
>> >> >channel, but the second channel attempts to dial in and attach to the
>> >> same
>> >> >port on the PM2 with no success, especially since the first call has
>> >> >already used the port.
>> >> >
>> >> >Please help with any thoughts or ideas, especially if you have done
this
>> >> >successfully.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >Ben Gasser, CNE
>> >> >National Network Serivices, Inc.
>> >> >Voice: 913.491.5388
>> >> >Fax: 913.491.1529
>> >> >
>> >
>> >Robert M. Zachok rmz@exit109.com
>> >Atlantic Internet Technologies
>> >628 Shrewsbury Ave., Red Bank, NJ 07701
>> >908.758.0505, 908.758.0869 (FAX)
>> >
>> Ben Gasser, CNE
>> National Network Services, Inc.
>> bengasser@gabs.net
>> (v) 913.491.5388
>> (f) 913.491.1529
>>
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