Re: (PM) OR-U question (fwd)
Willem Jan Withagen (wjw@surf.IAEhv.nl)
Tue, 18 Nov 1997 15:56:25 +0100 (MET)
In article <199711180130.RAA20956@server.livingston.com> you write:
>Once upon a time Tim Flavin shaped the electrons to say...
>>Been seeing when a OR-U drops or is reset that unit may take several
>>minutes to redial into us. I have the location set to auto and dial group
>>2 with both s1 and s2 set to dial group 2
>
>It shouldn't take 'several' minutes, but I think it waits a minute before
>trying again. This is legacy - modems take a while to reset and be ready
>to redial, so there was this pause. This has come up once or twice before
>and I've floated the idea of making the wait timer more intelligent - to
>not wait as long when dialing out on ISDN.
The same holds for ISDN dialback. It takes an office-router about 10 secs
to make up it's mind and to dial back. In the mean time, it just sits there
being pretty. Guess that this is also a leftover from modems.
Put as e consequence it takes the first ping 13 secs to get to the other
side.
--WjW
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