Re: (ASCEND) COMPLETE BULLSHIT

[Jason Nealis <nealis@rcn.com>]

The dongle thing is an external cable that hangs off the ethernet port of the 6xxx and you
connect your Cat 5 cable to it from the hub or switch. It looks just like an ethernet cable
hanging off a PCMCIA card. 

Jason Nealis
RCN


On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 10:36:01AM -0400, PowerNet stated
> What is this dongle thing?
> 
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> On 10/12/99, at 8:35 PM, Clint Sharp wrote: 
> 
> >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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