Re: PM3 + CT1 = Frustration!

Jay Hennigan (jay@west.net)
Wed, 20 Aug 1997 22:36:16 -0700 (PDT)

On Wed, 20 Aug 1997, Mark Conway Wirt wrote:

> The Situation
>
> A PM3, with 3 10 modem cards. ComOS version 3.5.1b20. The lines
> are FSX loop start (ESF, B8ZS). I'd prefer to have wink start
^^^^^^^^^
Are you _sure_ of this? Try D4 framing, AMI coding. ESF-B8ZS is common
on data lines, exceedingly rare on channelized voice lines.

> Also, the lines appear to be pretty dirty, but that's hard to be
> sure of. In 20 days of uptime, the one T1 has taken CRC errors
> (92), Sync errors (88), and Bipolar errors (65992). The other T1
> is a bit worse than that. Now, it doesn't look good, but those
> errors tally fast when a line goes down, so it *could* be that the
> line went down for a while and the line took all of those errors
> at once.

This also points to something optioned wrong with framing/coding.

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