Ascend Archive
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: (ASCEND) 6.1.7 Microcode for Max

At 21:35 31/08/98 -0400, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:

>On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Neale Banks wrote:
>>
>> The first box I upgraded hasn't missed a beat (almost 2 weeks).  The second
>> one (which is more heavily loaded) died once (Warning 140 followed by
>> multiple Warning 179s and eventual refusal to authenticate via radius - we
>
>	The one Maxen 4048 that I've upgraded to 6.1.7 has been up for
>7 days so far (power outage a week ago) with only a couple Warning 195's
>as the only problems shown in fatal-history...
>
>	Runnin pools -v on this system shows about 1658k

-------------------------------8<--------------------------------
 > fatal
[...]
SYSTEM IS UP:  Index: 100  Load: febik.m40 Revision: 6.1.7
        Date: 08/20/1998.       Time: 09:20:08

 > pools -v
Validating free lists...
0 errors; 211 buffers; 907936 bytes memory free
 >
-------------------------------8<--------------------------------

No complaints there.

-------------------------------8<--------------------------------
 > fatal
[...]
SYSTEM IS UP:  Index: 100  Load: febik.m40 Revision: 6.1.7
        Date: 08/25/1998.       Time: 07:33:45

WARNING:  Index: 140  Load: febik.m40 Revision: 6.1.7
        Date: 08/27/1998.       Time: 11:10:09
        Location: b002ca84 b002cd3c b002cd5c b01a5c24 b01a8074 b0085f40

WARNING:  Index: 179  Load: febik.m40 Revision: 6.1.7
        Date: 08/27/1998.       Time: 11:14:20
        Location: b002cf30 b002cff4 b0158f88 b0199448 b00231b4 b0062d90

WARNING:  Index: 179  Load: febik.m40 Revision: 6.1.7
        Date: 08/27/1998.       Time: 11:25:01
        Location: b002cf30 b002cff4 b0158f88 b0199448 b00231b4 b0062d90

WARNING:  Index: 179  Load: febik.m40 Revision: 6.1.7
        Date: 08/27/1998.       Time: 11:35:49
        Location: b002cf30 b002cff4 b0158f88 b0199448 b00231b4 b0062d90

WARNING:  Index: 179  Load: febik.m40 Revision: 6.1.7
        Date: 08/27/1998.       Time: 11:46:37
        Location: b002cf30 b002cff4 b0158f88 b0199448 b00231b4 b0062d90

OPERATOR RESET:  Index: 99  Load: febik.m40 Revision: 6.1.7
        Date: 08/27/1998.       Time: 12:25:19
        MENU Reset from unknown in security profile 9.

SYSTEM IS UP:  Index: 100  Load: febik.m40 Revision: 6.1.7
        Date: 08/27/1998.       Time: 12:26:42
 > pools -v
Validating free lists...
0 errors; 117 buffers; 536256 bytes memory free
 >
-------------------------------8<--------------------------------

Dean Frye of Ascend's APAC Support commented on the Warning 179's:

>This is a TCP sequence gap warning. You will get this if someone starts
>pummelling the box with wierd TCP segments. One of the Ascend kill programs
>did this. It has no adverse effect  apart from the warnings.

It is perhaps noteworthy that the box was struggling for memory after the
179s and ceased authenticating via RADIUS (hence the reboot).

Apart from that one incident, and some caution re free memory, I'm happy.
Of course, it is yet to stand the test of time.

Regards,
Neale.

++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++
To unsubscribe:	send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request@bungi.com
To get FAQ'd:	<http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq>