Re: (PM) Modem Code

craig heading (tasdevil@winsoft.net.au)
Mon, 03 May 1999 08:06:13 +1000

I have been having so much grief I was given the new beta modem code to
try out..... much improved. apparantly the PM gets caught doing retrains
in teh middle of retrains which causes the "spiral of death" syndrome
causing the modem to hang up, and they recognised that V90 does NOT drop
back to V34 (it disconnects - unfortunately it still does) whereas the
flex does...

Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
> At 10:49 PM 4/3/99 , Christopher E. Brown wrote:
> > This trash is getting pretty old. The stats are not directly
> >comparable between platforms. The stats are not calculated in the same
> >manner. Keep in mind that the abnormal stats include anything that cannot
> >finish a connect. Including people calling with a voice phone, broken
> >modems calling, noise on the line preventing connect, whatever.
> >
>
> No. Those stats are taken from the RADIUS logs. They are calls that are
> completed and authenticated. These are not take from syslog.
>
> Sat Apr 3 23:12:29 1999
> Acct-Session-Id = "2C00FC5F"
> User-Name = "blah"
> NAS-IP-Address = 209.112.4.5
> NAS-Port-Id = 45
> NAS-Port-Type = Async
> Acct-Status-Type = Stop
> Acct-Session-Time = 78
> Acct-Authentic = RADIUS
> Connect-Info = "28800 LAPM/V42BIS"
> Acct-Input-Octets = 4453
> Acct-Output-Octets = 45722
> Called-Station-Id = "2365"
> Acct-Terminate-Cause = User-Request
> LE-Terminate-Detail = "User Request - Call Circuit Closed"
> Service-Type = Framed-User
> Framed-Protocol = PPP
> Framed-IP-Address = 192.168.1.1
> Acct-Delay-Time = 0
> Timestamp = 923199149
> Request-Authenticator = Verified
>
> >appless to rocks there is not much to say. 5%, come on, we are not
> >talking random disconnects here, but random disconnects, failed calls,
> >voice calls, dropping in the middle of neg...
>
> No, we are not. Granted, stats between platforms and reporting methods
> between various implementations are not 100% comparable, but I think the
> information is more useful than just religiously supporting one platform
> over another. If you have any metrics to show that the PM3 is superior or
> on-par with other terminal servers I would be happy to hear it. I would
> love to stick with the Portmasters.
>
> ---Mike
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