RE: (ASCEND) COMPLETE BULLSHIT

["Troy Settle" <st@i-Plus.net>]

** it's a software bug--happens to 4048's too.

I *seriously* doubt it.  Out of 11 boxes running 7.0.22, this is the only
box it's happened on.

What's different about this box than all the others?

For starters, it has a 10/100 ethernet port.  Ok, that's 3 of the 11.

Now, of those 3, 2 are connected to a 10/100 switch running in 100MB / Full
duplex.  These 2 6000's haven't had their ethernet go down, but the Rx and
Tx stats are way off.  (100 million packets recieved, only 50k packets
transmitted???).

The remaining max is on a 10mbit hub, and is having problems.

There is only 1 warning in the fatal history, and it's not in reference to
anything related to ethernet (so Ascend says).

All this leads me to believe that it's a severe problem with the packet
and/or hardware drivers for the ethernet interface on the 6000 chassis.


** this happened to me too somewhere in 6.1.x--never happened in six months
** running 6.0.10.
**
** they told me it was fixed in 7.0.something so i upgraded--then it did it
** again two weeks later.  this only happened to the first one in the
** group--it gets the heaviest load.  then they emailed me 7.0.21e4--never
** happened again.  you would think the patch would be in 7.0.22.

I gave Ascend your name, and they looked up the ticket in question, and said
it was an unrelated problem (you were actually seeing errors logged in your
fatal history).

**
** i was just thinking about upping to 7.0.22 myself... maybe not now.  let
** us know what support sez--tia

The engineer I spoke with said that the fix in 7.0.21e4 was indeed carried
over to 7.0.22.  But, remember the #1 rule of dealing with Ascend: If it
ain't broke, don't even *think* of upgrading.

**
** i also asked if boxes running 7.x are compatible with ones on 6.x (like
** for stacking) but the guy implied he is only allowed to answer one
** question per call--lucent cracking the whip.  emailed the question but
** never got an answer.  grrrr...

No help here, other than to say that for a short time, we ran a mixed
environment, and we didn't get any complaints.  That could be as simple as
nobody's session tried stacking between boxes with different software.

--
  Troy Settle
  iPlus Internet Services


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