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Re: (ASCEND) MAX 1800 bri prob



> I guess that you've not seen the performance problems that we have. It was a
> horrible problem to ping the M1800 and get 100% response but pinging a remote
> P75 would get only 65% of the packets back. As you can imagine, telnet
> sessions were quite painful and FTPing files was almost impossible.

Nope, never had any performance problems. A BRI/channel either works or
it doesn't. (That's of course what's supposed to be the nice thing about
ISDN: You don't get 31200 out of your 33600 modem!)

> Ascend asked us for a packet trace of our Ethernet so they'd get an idea of
> what's going around on the M1800's Ethernet. I sent that to them, but the
> Ascend techs haven't yet come up with any explanation about why the M1800
> performs so poorly.

I wonder if you're doing any bridging. I refuse to turn on the global
bridging setting on any of my Maxen because I don't want the performance loss
incurred by putting the Ethernet into promiscuous mode. I'm probably overly
paranoid about the amount of performance you actually lose...

> One thing that may be helping create the problem is that we do bridging
> entirely... no routing. (Can't route many of the non-IP packets on our

Oh, I didn't read ahead before replying :-(

-Phil
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