Re: (PM) Stable v.90

Larry Vaden (vaden@texoma.net)
Wed, 17 Jun 1998 13:27:38 -0500

Karl,

Are you OK with 3.7.2c3?

If not, what problems are you seeing on 3.7.2c3?

Perhaps another good question is what version are you running?

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Drassinower <scottd@cloud9.net>
To: Larry Vaden <vaden@texoma.net>
Cc: portmaster-users@livingston.com <portmaster-users@livingston.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: (PM) Stable v.90

|
|You said you are running b15 and are having problems. If those problems
|were just as bad with 3.7.2c3, then something not good is going on, and
|you should open a ticket with Lucent if you haven't done so already.
|
|I think Karl (and others) mentioned previously that they were ok
|with 3.7.2c3, but b15 was bad for them, so 3.7.2c3 won.
|
|--
| Scott M. Drassinower scottd@cloud9.net
| Cloud 9 Consulting, Inc. White Plains, NY
| +1 914 696-4000 http://www.cloud9.net
|
|On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Larry Vaden wrote:
|
|> Again,
|>
|> where's the 3.7.2.c4 code addressing the problems in 3.6.2c3?
|>
|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: Scott Drassinower <scottd@cloud9.net>
|> To: Larry Vaden <vaden@texoma.net>
|> Cc: portmaster-users@livingston.com <portmaster-users@livingston.com>
|> Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 1:08 PM
|> Subject: Re: (PM) Stable v.90
|>
|>
|> |On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Larry Vaden wrote:
|> |
|> |> We are running b15.
|> |>
|> |> Our most common problem is aborted connections of duration under one
|> minute
|> |> (aborted at user request per the log); typically 8 or 10 customer
|> attempts
|> |> to get a connection to run as long as they wish; Karl Denninger of
|> mcs.net
|> |> may have more meaningful info as he has a much larger site.
|> |>
|> |
|> |So if this is a common issue for you, make a decision.
|> |
|> |b15 stays because you want V.90, and users get screwed if they can't
|> |connect to b15.
|> |
|> |or
|> |
|> |V.90 people have to wait a while, everyone else is happy, and it is
highly
|> |doubtful that you will suffer serious revenue/reputation damage from the
|> |(possibly) pissed V.90 people.
|> |
|> |Everyone was warned ahead of time about the state of this software from
|> |Lucent and from other people's reactions on the list. Try it, if it
works
|> |that's ok, if not, it will get fixed. No one is commanding people to
run
|> |beta software at all, and certainly not if it is broken for you.
|> |
|> |If people are screaming at Lucent because they're losing money, they are
|> |screaming at the wrong people. The problem is that the immediate fix
(no
|> |V.90, 3.7whatever) will make people who announced V.90 and now need to
|> |bail look silly. It's easier at that point to blame someone else
instead
|> |of acknowledging the error.
|> |
|> |--
|> | Scott M. Drassinower scottd@cloud9.net
|> | Cloud 9 Consulting, Inc. White Plains, NY
|> | +1 914 696-4000 http://www.cloud9.net
|> |
|> |
|>
|>
|
|

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