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Re: (ASCEND) Establishing P75 connection to ISP takes long time



	I have a Netwarp 128, Pipeline 50, Pipeline 75, and a MAX. My radius
is not setup incorrectly. The problem does happen in the radius 
auth process, gradually getting worse until a reboot of the MAX
gets the login time back to less than a second growing more and more 
until the next MAX reboot.

	2.2.9 on the Netwarp, 5.1Ap9 on the Pipelines, and 5.0Ap38 on the 
MAX.

	

> Date:          Tue, 13 Jan 1998 15:30:58 -0600
> To:            peterb@fredbom.se (Peter Bjorkbom)
> From:          Luke Parrish <lparrish@iAmerica.net>
> First of all, *No* it should not take 5 or 6 seconds to establish a
> connection. I would guess that this hold up, is caused by the RADIUS
> authentication process. I assume they are using RADIUS. They either have
> their RADIUS server setup incorrectly, or they have a *very* large list of
> users in their users file. And the MAX is having to search through every
> single one of them to log you in... We had this problem earlier in the
> year, this was fixed by taking all hostnames out of our clients file, and
> putting only ip address's. 
> 
> When you do talk to your ISP about this, ask them if they are using local
> authentication or RADIUS, and if RADIUS, ask them if that could maybe be
> the problem...
> 
> Then again that could have nothing at all to do with it... But thats my guess.
> 
> 
> 
> At 08:28 AM 1/14/98 -0000, you wrote:
> >Im using a Pipeline 75 for internet access with static IP adressing. 
> >
> >It is working fine with one exception - it takes 5 to 6 seconds to connect
> to the ISP.
> >
> >The ISP is using Ascend equipment at their end (MAX. I do not know the
> exact model and software release yet - hoping that the big ISP company will
> provide me with that info SOON!!!)
> >
> >I have tried many, many different configurations (turned on and off most
> features that can be configured in the P75 including different compression
> schemes, PPP-MPP, etc.), but none
> >of this made no difference.
> >
> >I have noticed that the CRC: field in the 20-300 'WAN Stat' box increments
> by 1 or 2 each time the P75 connects to the ISP. This happens between the
> Call Connected message and the LAN Session Up message. It seems that there
> is a problem during that stage in the connection. I believed that it might
> be a bit-failure in the ISDN connection and therefore had the Telco check
> it out. Their testing equipment states that there is not a single bit
> failure on the ISDN line!
> >
> >Im sick and tired of this and have started to dream at night of other
> router brands (last time was a ACC Congo Voice Router...help...).
> >
> >Is this behavior of the P75 connection acceptable or normal? Ive seen
> other people having a connection time near 1 second using other routers.
> >
> >Does anyone have a clue?
> >
Roger Salisbury		
AXS4U Networking Inc.	
rogers@axs4u.net	
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