RE: (ASCEND) multishelf TNT

["Mitchell Arnone" <mitchell.arnone@occ.treas.gov>]

I agree that it doesn't much matter whether you consolidate modems in one 
shelf and T-1/E-1s in the other of leave them configured as is.  I have 
left both TNTs configured in a similar manner as yours and I find it works 
well.  The benefit I have realized is that should I lose the slave, I still 
have a fully functional environment.  Of course if I lose the master, then 
I have nothing.

As for connecting the shelves, you will need two straight-through cables.  
Some folks have used level 5 (or Cat 5) cables without a problem but if you 
do not use the cables provided by Ascend then supposedly you will not 
receive technical support should problems arise with the shelf 
configuration.  The Ascend cables are specially configured to handle the 
load between shelves and they are very impressive (insofar as cables can be 
impressive).  I recommend getting the cables from Ascend... it is worth it. 
 Actually, each TNT is supposed to come with one cable so if you have two 
TNTs then you should already have two cables.

Mitch



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Original Text
From: "Zanten, Marco van" <Marco.Zanten@Alcatel.nl>, on 8/20/99 4:12 AM:
To: SMTP@DC2@OCC["'Ascend mailing list'" <ascend-users@bungi.com>]

Indur,

The card location does not matter much to my opinion.

Set the master shelf to master in the system profile
set the slave shelf to slave in the system profile
and set the rotary switch of the slave to 2
connect them up using the appropriate cables (I think a FTP cable
straight is to be used)
note that port 1 of the taxibus on the master needs to be connected to
port 2 of the slave and vise versa.

reset -a and your done.

Good luck

Marco van Zanten

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jason Nealis [SMTP:nealis@rcn.com]
> Sent:	vrijdag 20 augustus 1999 0:19
> To:	Indur Ait
> Cc:	ascend-users@bungi.com
> Subject:	Re: (ASCEND) multishelf TNT
> 
> 
> Traditionally what I did prior to the high-density CSM3 modem cards
> came out was
> to put all my T1 cards and HDLC/ENET cards in the to the master shelf
> and
> make the slave shelf just a big modem box. It worked well in our
> environment. 
> 
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> 
> Jason Nealis
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> On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 04:12:22PM +0300, Indur Ait stated
> > I have two working TNT's and now I have to stack they together.
> First
> > TNT has 8xE1 card and modems, and second TNT has 8xE1 card and
> modems.
> > Should I put all E1 cards to first, master TNT?
> > Can someone give me some hints, how configure multishelf TNT?
> > 
> > 
> > Indur Ait
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