RE: (ASCEND) COMPLETE BULLSHIT

[Clint Sharp <clint@typhoon.org>]

Do you have the Ethernet dongle on that 6000? Some older 10 Mbit hubs have
problems with the 10/100 autosensing stuff, and putting that dongle on it
has fixed the problem on a couple of maxes for me (although the problem
isn't usually intermittent, it usually just won't work without the
dongle).

Clint

On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Troy Settle wrote:

> 
> 
> ** 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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