RE: (PM) An issue with 3.8.2 after 21 days?

Erik Power (erik@sitespecific.net)
Mon, 1 Feb 1999 16:37:36 -0800

CT1. Loop start has never caused a problem, so we've never bothered to take
our lines down to switch them to wink.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-portmaster-users@livingston.com
[mailto:owner-portmaster-users@livingston.com]On Behalf Of Jason A.
Lixfeld
Sent: Monday, February 01, 1999 4:23 PM
To: Erik Power; portmaster-users@livingston.com
Subject: RE: (PM) An issue with 3.8.2 after 21 days?

FXS loop start? What is that? Are your lines PRI or DEA?

At 03:43 PM 2/1/99 -0800, Erik Power wrote:
>No problems here.
>
>an1> ver
>Livingston PortMaster PM-3 ComOS 3.8.2
>System uptime is 18 days 4 minutes
>
>an1> sh line0
>---------------------- line0 - T1 Inband DS0 ---------------
>
> Status: UP Framing: ESF Encoding: B8ZS PCM: u-law
>
> Signaling: FXS loop start
>
> Receive Level: +2dB to -7.5dB
>
> Alarms Violations
> ----------------------------- -----------------------------
> Blue 0 Bipolar 0
> Yellow 0 CRC Errors 0
> Receive Carrier Loss 0 Multiframe Sync 0
> Loss of Sync 0
>
>
>an1> sh mem
>System memory 4194304 bytes - 3158652 used, 1035652 available
>96:2 208:5 192:3 640:1 1168:1 112:5 176:6 240:5 144:6 2048:5 224:2 64:6
>4240:3 592:2 32:12 2064:0 128:5 80:10 16:101 160:7 48:6
>System nbufs 2558 - 77 used, 2481 available
>System blocks 576 - 10 used, 566 available
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-portmaster-users@livingston.com
>[mailto:owner-portmaster-users@livingston.com]On Behalf Of jon-lists
>Sent: Monday, February 01, 1999 3:30 PM
>To: Tony Harris
>Cc: portmaster-users@livingston.com
>Subject: Re: (PM) An issue with 3.8.2 after 21 days?
>
>
>It stopped giving clients a network connection. I didn't go into it very
>far, but it appeared that PPP started not working for X number of ports
>after a few days (nowhere near 21 days... maybe 4).. as soon as I reflashed
>3.8 into it the problem went away. I would just start seeing less ports in
>use for that specific time of day. The kicker was when a customer called
>having trouble, I had him try to connect 5 times in a row, then I rebooted
>and told him to try again and he got in no problem. Couple days later it
>started up again. This time I just reflashed 3.8 in there and rebooted and
>everything has been fine since. (month I would bargain)
>
>It's really a shame, since the 3.8.2 modem code appeared to be quite a bit
>better, I noticed some better connection rates in the early times after
>rebooting.
>
>memory usage looked normal when it started flaking out. I don't have a clue
>what the problem was, I had an idea of SNMP, but someone else had SNMP
>enabled and wasn't having a problem, if I remember correctly. *shrug*
>
>At 05:05 PM 2/1/99 -0600, you wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>Someone had mentioned that they had trouble with 3.8.2 after 21 days of
>use.
>>Could that person, or anyone else experiencing this PLEASE email me what
>the
>>symptoms were?
>
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Regards,

Jason A. Lixfeld
Director, Network Operations
I.D. Internet Direct Ltd. (VSE-IDX)
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