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Re: (ASCEND) Re: Ascend OSPF?
They gave us all of these suggestions (changing the version for #1,
of course) a YEAR ago. So make that at least 55 weeks and counting.
Our maxen crashes anywhere from 10 minutes to three days after turning
OSPF on.
Big Brother tells me that Todd Bishop said:
>
> David,
>
> I don't know if you caught my previous post about this problem but I
> thought I'd post it again JIC. As an update, the below suggestions from
> Ascend haven't helped me much and we are know at three weeks and
> counting...
>
> This is a known bug TR2930 that Ascend is working on a fix for. They
> gave me an estimate of "at least two weeks" about two weeks ago. They
> also gave me a few suggestions to ease things until the fix arrives...
>
> 1. An upgrade to 5.0Ap38 on all 4 of our Max 4000's: Previously we
> were running 5.0Ap33. (5.0Ap33 was worse.)
>
> 2. Turning "Pool Summary=Yes" in Ethernet->Mod Config->Wan Options.
>
> 3. Setting the "Priority=0" in Ethernet->Mod Config->OSPF Options.
>
> 4. Place the max in any area other than 0(backbone). This will prevent
> other areas from injecting Summary Links to the area where Maxen are
> located.
>
> 5. Place the max in a stub area(if only modem users connect to the max
> and they get IP from pool).
>
> Read up on Pool Summary before applying that one before you use it in
> case you are assigning addresses from pools in RADIUS which allows any
> any of your Maxen to have addresses assigned from the same address
> block. I had to assign /26 address subnets to use for pools for each
> individual Max first. Pool summary will then summarize the routing
> announcements to your OSPF network, i.e. instead of having a single /32
> route to every individual dialup customer announced to each other Max on
> your network, you'll have a single /26 route for all of the dialups on
> that Max announced to the other Maxen. It shortens your routing table
> considerably, especially if you have a lot of Maxen. Sort of like using
> CIDR.
>
> Todd Bishop
> Unicom Communications, Inc.
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