Re: (PM) Microcom K56Flex (fwd)

Dick St.Peters (stpeters@NetHeaven.com)
Mon, 8 Jun 1998 23:58:11 -0400

MegaZone writes:
> Once upon a time Dick St.Peters shaped the electrons to say...
> >I'm kinda curious about this modem - it's not Rockwell, but it doesn't
> >seem to be Lucent either. I wasn't aware that there are flex modems
>
> Are you sure it is not Rockwell? All Microcomm modems I've seen personally
> have Rockwell chipsets. Did you open it? Can you tell the chip vendor on
> the DSP?

I haven't looked inside, but its "atiN" outputs have no resemblance to
the Rockwell responses, and "at+ms?" reports "ERROR".

Its "atiN" responses also don't resemble those of my Lucent-based
Hayes Optima.

My curiosity about Compaq/Microcom modems increased another notch when
a new user of ours with a Compaq system recorded this radius detail
file entry:

Fri Jun 5 23:04:04 1998
Acct-Session-Id = "0F006DE2"
User-Name = "cmh"
NAS-IP-Address = 198.69.28.133
NAS-Port = 15
NAS-Port-Type = Async
Acct-Status-Type = Stop
Acct-Session-Time = 4087
Acct-Authentic = RADIUS
Connect-Info = "64000 MNP/NONE" <-----****
Acct-Input-Octets = 195871
Acct-Output-Octets = 827835
Acct-Terminate-Cause = User-Request
Service-Type = Framed-User
Framed-Protocol = PPP
Framed-IP-Address = 206.231.156.158
Acct-Delay-Time = 0

(ComOS 3.7.2c3, AMI/D4 CT1 off a DMS10)

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