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Re: (ASCEND) MAX 4048 + 5.0Ap38 oddity



On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Mike Hughes wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Jason Nealis wrote:
> 
> > 
> >  Weird, I'm running AP38 and I haven't seen any of these resets, But, 
> > users have been complaining about horrible throughput in some of the 
> > sites. (Do all of your max's reboot?)
> > 
> > Jason
> 
> I'm getting this rebooting on my Maxen (all 4000/4060 p38 load eik.m40), 
> but it seems to primarily affect the boxes on the front of my hunt group, 
> which is configured for "overflow" operation (when a PRI fills, then 
> calls come up in the next PRI on the group), obviously because they take 
> more calls. The first Max in the group would need rebooting every 36-48 
> hours.
> 

 Here we are all PRI and some CT1's. with our hunt's configured
to sequentially hunt. Also we push 3 PRI's into each box so they
are pretty busy all the time, 

> Are your hunt groups configured to run using a cyclic, or longest without 
> a call, algorithm - hence spreading your call load out over all the boxes 
> on that PoP?

 Sequential here, We find it easier to troubleshoot ascend issues
with sequential hunting, (It makes it a lot faster to find that
bad modem pack :)


Jason Nealis
Erols Internet

> 
> I have asked my Telco if I can have a different hunting algorithm, but our
> rep says it can't be done at the moment (Apparently they are going get a
> new switch with these options on, specially for ISPs). So, I have done
> some creative re-juggling of the PRIs to spread the load out better for
> now. Sadly, this PoP is not in the same building as my office, so I have 
> to traipse over to Telehouse London if I want to do anything like that.
> 
> This problem started in p36 for me, and it has been in with TAC (both the 
> Euro-TAC, and now Dave Walsh) since then.
> 
> (I also get the problem where some of the circuits on a PRI do not come 
> back into service after a reboot, and the Telco NMC reports alarms from 
> the switch).
> 
> Mike
> 

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