Re: (PM) Setting a "static" IP address to each modem?

NOT a LE employee (livingston@iav.com)
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 21:08:17 -1000 (HST)

On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Chen Shiyuan wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, NOT a LE employee wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Chen Shiyuan wrote:
> >
> > > On the other hand, the reason why I want to do such a thing is because I
> > > want to have a better "auditing" of the modems so that I know that all
> > > users with a particular IP had used this modem before.
> >
> > ?? particular modem? you do realize that S1 does not equate to M1 as
> > modems on the PM3 are dynamically assigned.
>
> Really? Oops... I think I'm sounding idiotic, but I always thought they
> are the same.

do a sh all to see how the Sxx ports match with the Mxx ports

Sxx is the PRI port and Mxx is the modem

[snip]

> Okay, let me put it this way, what I'm thinking of :-
>
> I would like to be able to reference each digital modem with an address so
> that I can easily identify which users have used that digital modem before
> and if some funny problems occur, I can easily trace out if there is a
> fault with the modem or something else.

Currently there is no 'simple' way... telnetting in and doing sh mo is a
decent method to check, or... using one of the scripts/programs to check
the status like pmwho etc....

> Also, for easy identification, I would like to be able to know how many
> modems are currently used via the IP addressess used, i.e. if I see users
> coming in with IP 1.1.1.50, I would know that around 50 modems are used
> already. I don't want to do a telnet to the pm3 and do a show sessions or
> whatever...

Won't work like that as you may hit .50 but when people drop off of using
the lines like from .10-.20 the .50 is still active.... so without
actively checking all the ips you have a nonsense count.

You should seriously look at something like the pmwho scripts/programs or
tsmon aka pmmon from www.squashduck.com

OH! And you should also look through the archives for these lists at

http://www.nexial.nl

or the other archives listed on http://www.livingston.com

8) hope this helps you out....

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Sherwood

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