(PM) Re: Trouble upgrading on busy PM3
Chris Adams (cadams@ro.com)
5 May 1999 12:16:40 -0500
Once upon a time, Thomas C Kinnen <tkinnen@livingston.com> said:
>Jake Messinger wrote:
>> :I just upgraded 5 PM3's to 3.8.2c2 with pmconsole, all had users online
>> :and all 5 upgrades finished without a single problem. In fact, I did not
>> :have a single failed upgrade since we own PM3's.
>>
>> I have done several experiments and have noted that on a busy network, when
>> the Pm 3 is busy, the upgrade will fail quite often.
>
>The Busy Network is the key I would think and not the actually number of
>users. Remember TFTP and PMConsole/PMVision is UDP based and not TCP Based.
So does the PM3 drop UDP packets when it is busy? I have a switched
ethernet network and see collision rates around 0.1% on my PM3s usually.
I don't have problems like this when I use TFTP to upgrade my Cisco and
Ascend stuff.
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