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RE: (ASCEND) High Usage on the Ethernet port

Adam,
	Make sure you have bridging turned off on the ethernet port of
the router.  That will make a major difference.  Having a switch at each
of you sites is not a bad thing.   Not sure what type of switch you guys
are currently using, but nowadays a low end ethernet switch is not to
much more than an ethernet hub.


		Chris



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Adam Neat [SMTP:adamneat@ipax.com.au]
> Sent:	Thursday, March 12, 1998 2:15 AM
> To:	ascend-users@bungi.com
> Subject:	(ASCEND) High Usage on the Ethernet port
> 
> Hello everyone
> 
> I'm just wondering if anyone else has had any of these symptoms.
> 
> We have lots of Ascend 1800's here to interconnect our clients. 
> 
> Up until 1 month ago, we had the ascend routers/access routers sitting
> on the 
> main ethernet of the respective LAN's. We noticed that when
> utilisation of the 
> ethernet went higher than about 20% the ascend routers would grind to
> a snails 
> pace and throughput would become extreamly slow (WAN traffic to the
> 'net).
> 
> We then put in some ethernet switches and LAN routers to help
> compensate for 
> the large number of packets. This seems to have rectified the problem,
> however, 
> its a costly one each time we install a POP.
> 
> Is there something we have done wrong? our experience as systems
> designers cant 
> pinpoint this one. 
> 
> We are still using 5.0b13 (it think) as its very stable and we've
> never had 
> problems with it. 
> 
> We are wanting to up the ante to 6.0.something to get the extra SNMP
> MIB 
> functions.
> 
> Any discussion would be great.
> 
> Regards
> 
> adam
> 
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