Unfortunately, I think a lot of Portmaster ISP's were recommending USR
Sporsters as an inexpensive alternative to Winmodems and other crap
modems...and now we are stuck with the blame of incompatibility.
On Friday August 1997, Rick Smith <rsmith@nac.net>
had this to say about "Re: Upgrade to 56k and 3.7 causing disconnects":
> Funny thing. We are experiencing the same things,
> BUT we've not even put the modems in yet. In fact,
> the night before last, we downgraded back to 3.5.1b20
>
There's no difference in modem code/compatibility between 3.5.1b20 and 3.7
--John-David Childs (JC612) @denver.net/Internet-Coach/@ronan.net System Administrator Enterprise Internet Solutions & Network Engineer 901 E 17th Ave, Denver 80218 It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. -- Bertrand Russell
> Any help out there Livingston ? > > Mike Wade wrote: > > > I'm experiencing the *exact* same problem. > > > > --- > > Mike Wade, Manager of Information Services > > Chattanooga Data Connection, Inc. > > http://www.cdc.net/~mwade/ > > mwade@cdc.net > > > > On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Oakman, Chris wrote: > > > > > I am having the same problems, any input would be > > > great. > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: CEvoy@lonet.ca [SMTP:CEvoy@lonet.ca] > > > > Sent: Friday, August 22, 1997 9:53 AM > > > > To: portmaster-users@livingston.com > > > > Subject: Upgrade to 56k and 3.7 causing disconnects > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > Is anyone else out there seeing disconnections to your users from > > > > upgrading > > > > to 3.7 and 56k cards? > > > > We upgraded last night and now have some pissed off users this > > > > morning. The > > > > only common thread seems to be that a lot of these users are running > > > > usr > > > > 33.6, though not all. They can stay connected from anywhere between 1 > > > > second and 1 hour. All of our ports are set to 0 for idle-timeout. And > > > > this > > > > is happening accross multiple chassis. Any ideas? > > > > --- > > Mike Wade, Manager of Information Services > > Chattanooga Data Connection, Inc. > > http://www.cdc.net/~mwade/ > > mwade@cdc.net > > > > -- > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > "Don't go with a spineless ISP; Rick Smith > we have more backbone." rsmith@nac.net > > (201) 983-0725 net @ccess corporation (201) 983-0453 Fax > http://www.nac.net > > Quake! games@nac.net MUDs! > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=