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(ASCEND) Nailed Modem Users - No No




Okay, onto another topic besides K56Flex.  :)

Anyhow, I'm sure there are lots of ISPs and dial-up modem pool owners
on this list, so I've got a rather common question that I'm looking for
an answer to.

How do people approach customers who nail up modems 24x7?

I've currently got over 1000 Max ports, and around 10% of those are 
what I would consider nailed connections.  The customer has a program that
just keeps them logged into the service all the time, no matter what we
do.

Now I offer up suggestions of what we're looking into, tell me what you
think.

We're writing an SNMP tool, a la aview, that we're going to monitor all
of the sessions on all of our Maxes.  When a session has been logged into
the service for say...XXX hours (maybe 12), then we're going to tag that
account in a little database with a record of the in/out octets.  If after
X cycles of checking this account, they haven't done a certain amount of
traffic, we kick them off, and record the fact we kicked them off.  If 
after X times of being kicked off they're still doing it, the program 
will send the customer a message about it.  After X messages, we disable
the account.

How are other people handling this situation.  Do you see the same ratio
of modems always active (10%)?

Just curious.

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