RE: (ASCEND) Setting the Date/Time on a P75

[Matt Holdrege <matt@ascend.com>]

At 12:37 PM 3/7/98 EST, Tim Basher wrote:
>> In the Pipeline 50/75/130 Addendum manual under Displaying packets, I
>> found the following paragraphs on page 7-3:
>...
>> In the following example, the Pipeline unit's time and date have not
>> been explicitly set, either by user command or SNTP server. So, the
>> date and time in the captured packet is invalid.
>
>I have to say, that is pretty misleading.  The Pipeline 75 does not have
>a real-time clock and thus no time/date or SNTP support and thus could
>never be set.
>
>This is why there is a problem some caller-id equipment attached to the
>P75 analog phone jack, when the ISDN switch does not provide a Date/time
>information element - the P75 does not have a time value of its own to
>use as a substitute.

Sounds like a documentation error to me. We'll let our techpubs folks know.

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