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(usr-tc) To TC or not to TC
by Steve Cobb 01 Jun '00

01 Jun '00

Hi all, We are a new ISP that is having a ton of problems with our USR TC equipment. We have two pops, one tc with 3 DSPs and one with 2. We are at the point of adding another DSP to each tc but as I said we are having a ton of problems. Sprint is our telco and they have no expertise with tc. Right now, we have been having problems for 10 DAYS! Our trunks mysteriously turn off until and our available modems slowly drop off. So my question is, what is the best hardware to switch to? I like the features of the usr tc, but we have no support. 3COM has been no help. I'm looking at going to an Ascend/Lucent product but I don't know which one. I would like the same manageability that the tc has. Any suggestions would be most helpfully. Of course, I need something that is x2 and ISDN ready. Thanks, Steve Cobb Computer Geeks - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo(a)xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.

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Re: (usr-tc) And you thought you were frustrated with 3COM
by Jamie Orzechowski 01 Jun '00

01 Jun '00

No ... was a misunderstanding =) ... We are only looking at CVX equipment right now ... Our 3Com gear it staying .... sorry for any mix-up ... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Nabil" <nabil(a)SpiritOne.com> To: "Jamie Orzechowski" <mhz(a)ripnet.com> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 5:26 PM Subject: Re: (usr-tc) And you thought you were frustrated with 3COM > On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Jamie Orzechowski wrote: > > > check out the Nortel CVX 1800! ... We are getting rid of our TC Gear (7 > > Racks - about 40 DSP's) and going to the Nortel CVX 1800 ... > > Are you looking to sell your TC racks? > > -a > - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo(a)xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.

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(usr-tc) Mac & TC
by jeff.binkley＠asacomp.com 01 Jun '00

01 Jun '00

Everyone, We continue to struggle with certain MAC computers connecting to our TC racks. The struggle is often on older MACs (prior to version 8) which don't always come with a browser and sometimes not even a PPP stack. Our latest problem child is a Mac Quadra 610 with 7.1 on it . I am wodering what folks are doing to provide software to MAC customers. We have a CDROM burner and we have the HyCD software which supposedly burns MAC CDROMs ( we downlaod the software off of the Internet and then burn the CDs) but we have had limited success with this. What are others doing to deal with the MACs ? THanks, Jeff Binkley ASA Network Computing - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo(a)xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.

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(usr-tc) Quad support ending...
by Stephen Amadei 01 Jun '00

01 Jun '00

After hearing 3Com swoon about the renamed "Total Control 1000" platform with it's DSPs and Quads and how everything is going to be nice, I just noticed in the compatibilty notes for TCS 4.0 (the only part I have access to) that this is to be the last tested compatibility software version for the Quads. Does this mean all Quad fixes are now finished? IMHO, I'm not ready to trash my Quads in favor of DSPs that drop more and connect at lower speeds. Any thoughts? ----Steve Stephen Amadei Dandy.net CTO Atlantic City, NJ - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo(a)xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.

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(usr-tc) My Hipers don't love me no mo...
by Stephen Amadei 31 May '00

31 May '00

Hey, guys. The day before leaving for ISPCON, I noticed the NMC we where using with some Quads wasn't X2 enabled... so in a panic, I was able (with someone's help here) to erase the password on another NMC with an X2 key, and get the system fixed up, before leaving... From Florida, I noted the NMC card was only 4.3.4 and wasn't recognizing the HiperDSP or HiperARC... which made for some interesting TCView and MRTG charts... but at least it was running. Yesterday, I finally got around to putting it on my to-do list. I would flash it to 6.1.17 and thats' it... but instead the goddamn NMC card keep timing out, and the flash failed. I then noted it only had 4 Megs DRAM, 2 Megs Flash... *grumble* I switch the flash with an 8 Meg, and put a 16 in DRAM slot 2, but the system ignores the 16 Megger... after fighting with different combos of cards, memory, flash and that infernal PCSDL program for hours, I am able to successfully get the card up on 6.0.9 without upsetting the dialled in customers. Whew... However, suddenly, all the customers get dropped off the DSP... and it's not picking up anymore... so I swap about some PRIs. The box looks normal from the front, but TCView only sees the DSP as a yellow card... the TCM doesn't acknowledge the DSP either, but I can click on the empty slot and bring up programmed settings. What should I try now? I'd like to update the system to 6.1.17, but does that require 8 Meg or Flash or DRAM... I have 8 Flash, but 4 DRAM right now... IIRC, 6.0.9 should like the HiperDSP's fine... right? This is probably a stupid question, but is there anyway to transfer an X2 key? ----Steve Stephen Amadei Dandy.net CTO Atlantic City, NJ - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo(a)xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.

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(usr-tc) dead connection
by K Mitchell 31 May '00

31 May '00

I'm having problems with a user who's connection doesn't seem to be working. He's logging on fine, but unable to get anywhere once connected. I've gone over all of his settings to no avail and, thinking possible TCP/IP corruption, reinstalled that. It did appear to change his traffic somewhat, but still no success getting anywhere. He's running an old Gateway with a 28.8 modem, running ARC 4.2.32 and DSP 0.49hw/2.0.81sw here. Here's the relevant ppp traces; Before reinstalling TCP/IP: Incoming PPP Data on interface: slot:1/mod:11 80 21 01 03 00 1c 02 06 00 2d 0f 00 03 06 cc ab | ! - | 1f a3 81 06 cc ab 1f 04 83 06 cc ab 1f 05 | | Outgoing PPP Data on interface: slot:1/mod:11 80 21 02 03 00 1c 02 06 00 2d 0f 00 03 06 cc ab | ! - | 1f a3 81 06 cc ab 1f 04 83 06 cc ab 1f 05 | | Incoming PPP Data on interface: slot:1/mod:11 21 45 00 00 60 1b 00 00 00 20 11 a6 94 cc ab 1f |!E ` | a3 cc ab 1f ff 00 89 00 89 00 4c 65 66 00 07 29 | Lef )| 10 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 01 20 45 48 45 42 46 45 | EHEBFE| 45 46 46 48 45 42 46 4a 43 41 43 41 43 41 43 41 |EFFHEBFJCACACACA| 43 41 43 41 43 41 43 41 41 41 00 00 20 00 01 c0 |CACACACAAA | 0c 00 20 00 01 00 04 93 e0 00 06 00 00 cc ab 1f | | a3 | | Outgoing PPP Data on interface: slot:1/mod:11 21 45 00 00 38 ab ad 00 00 ff 01 37 1e cc ab 1f |!E 8 7 | ff cc ab 1f a3 03 03 96 38 00 00 00 00 45 00 00 | 8 E | 60 1b 00 00 00 20 11 a6 94 cc ab 1f a3 cc ab 1f |` | ff 00 89 00 89 00 4c 65 66 | Lef | Incoming PPP Data on interface: slot:1/mod:11 21 45 00 00 60 1c 00 00 00 20 11 a5 94 cc ab 1f |!E ` | a3 cc ab 1f ff 00 89 00 89 00 4c 05 72 00 08 29 | L r )| 10 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 01 20 44 43 44 41 44 41 | DCDADA| 44 41 43 41 43 41 43 41 43 41 43 41 43 41 43 41 |DACACACACACACACA| 43 41 43 41 43 41 43 41 41 41 00 00 20 00 01 c0 |CACACACAAA | 0c 00 20 00 01 00 04 93 e0 00 06 80 00 cc ab 1f | | a3 | | Incoming PPP Data on interface: slot:1/mod:11 21 45 00 00 60 1d 00 00 00 20 11 a4 94 cc ab 1f |!E ` | a3 cc ab 1f ff 00 89 00 89 00 4c 62 64 00 09 29 | Lbd )| 10 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 01 20 45 48 45 42 46 45 | EHEBFE| 45 46 46 48 45 42 46 4a 43 41 43 41 43 41 43 41 |EFFHEBFJCACACACA| 43 41 43 41 43 41 43 41 41 44 00 00 20 00 01 c0 |CACACACAAD | 0c 00 20 00 01 00 04 93 e0 00 06 00 00 cc ab 1f | | a3 | | Outgoing PPP Data on interface: slot:1/mod:11 21 45 00 00 38 ab ae 00 00 ff 01 37 1d cc ab 1f |!E 8 7 | ff cc ab 1f a3 03 03 f6 2c 00 00 00 00 45 00 00 | , E | 60 1c 00 00 00 20 11 a5 94 cc ab 1f a3 cc ab 1f |` | ff 00 89 00 89 00 4c 05 72 | L r | Outgoing PPP Data on interface: slot:1/mod:11 21 45 00 00 38 ab af 00 00 ff 01 37 1c cc ab 1f |!E 8 7 | ff cc ab 1f a3 03 03 99 3a 00 00 00 00 45 00 00 | : E | 60 1d 00 00 00 20 11 a4 94 cc ab 1f a3 cc ab 1f |` | ff 00 89 00 89 00 4c 62 64 | Lbd | After reinstalling TCP/IP: Incoming PPP Data on interface: slot:2/mod:12 21 45 00 00 41 11 00 00 00 20 11 20 50 cc ab 1f |!E A P | 9b cc ff b0 16 04 01 00 35 00 2d 58 80 00 01 01 | 5 -X | 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 68 6f 6d 65 31 32 | home12| 08 6e 65 74 73 63 61 70 65 03 63 6f 6d 00 00 01 | netscape com | 00 01 | | Outgoing PPP Data on interface: slot:2/mod:12 21 45 00 00 38 d3 ab 00 00 0f 01 42 32 a7 98 02 |!E 8 B2 | 09 cc ab 1f 9b 0b 00 97 1c 00 00 00 00 45 00 00 | E | 41 11 00 00 00 01 11 40 50 cc ab 1f 9b cc ff b0 |A @P | 16 04 01 00 35 00 2d 58 80 | 5 -X | Incoming PPP Data on interface: slot:2/mod:12 21 45 00 00 41 12 00 00 00 20 11 1f 51 cc ab 1f |!E A Q | 9b cc ff b0 15 04 01 00 35 00 2d 58 81 00 01 01 | 5 -X | 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 68 6f 6d 65 31 32 | home12| 08 6e 65 74 73 63 61 70 65 03 63 6f 6d 00 00 01 | netscape com | 00 01 | | Outgoing PPP Data on interface: slot:2/mod:12 21 45 c0 00 38 53 17 00 00 f1 01 e0 04 a7 98 02 |!E 8S | 0a cc ab 1f 9b 0b 00 98 1b 00 00 00 00 45 00 00 | E | 41 12 00 00 00 01 11 3e 51 cc ab 1f 9b cc ff b0 |A >Q | 15 04 01 00 35 00 2d 58 81 | 5 -X | Incoming PPP Data on interface: slot:2/mod:12 21 45 00 00 3e 13 00 00 00 20 11 1e 54 cc ab 1f |!E > T | 9b cc ff b0 15 04 02 00 35 00 2a 91 55 00 01 01 | 5 * U | 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 77 77 77 04 68 6f | www ho| 6d 65 03 6d 73 6e 03 63 6f 6d 00 00 01 00 01 |me msn com | Outgoing PPP Data on interface: slot:2/mod:12 21 45 c0 00 38 54 d1 00 00 f1 01 de 4a a7 98 02 |!E 8T J | 0a cc ab 1f 9b 0b 00 5f 49 00 00 00 00 45 00 00 | _I E | 3e 13 00 00 00 01 11 3d 54 cc ab 1f 9b cc ff b0 |> =T | 15 04 02 00 35 00 2a 91 55 | 5 * U | Any ideas what this guy's problem might be? Thanks, -- Kirk Mitchell-General Manager mitch(a)keyconn.net Keystone Connect Unlock Your World Altoona, PA 814-941-5000 http://www.keyconn.net - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo(a)xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.

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Re: (usr-tc) dead connection
by K Mitchell 30 May '00

30 May '00

At 10:15 PM 5/30/00 -0400, Paul Farber wrote: >Just for giggles.. have you rebooted your chassis recenty? A lot of these >mysterious errors can be 'solved' by a good ol fashioned power-cycle. Been awhile since the chassis has been rebooted, but I'm leaning towards it being something else. Nobody else has reported any problems, and the problem user is a new signup. >I does look like something is happening, as you are getting requests FROM >them (the URL's are in the trace) but you don't seem to resolve them (no >host address going back to them)... so it may be on your side. See above >for a possible solution. Forgot to mention, his connectoid had been set to server assigned DNS, which works for our other users without problems. I tried manually adding our DNS servers to the connectoid and saw no improvement. Thanks, -- Kirk Mitchell-General Manager mitch(a)keyconn.net Keystone Connect Unlock Your World Altoona, PA 814-941-5000 http://www.keyconn.net - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo(a)xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.

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(usr-tc) NETserver RAM (fwd)
by Lists 30 May '00

30 May '00

OK, I've forgotten what RAM I need for a NETserver, and I've forgotten where the list archives are :-( I know I need a 16mb non-EDO SIMM, but do I need parity or not? Thanks in advance! - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo(a)xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.

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(usr-tc) TCPIP Stall
by Scot Desort 29 May '00

29 May '00

We are running DSP's with 2.0.51 software. We have had 2 customers in the past 3 weeks with this issue. They connect to us just fine. If they simply connect and do nothing else, their connection is stable. We can ping back and forth. They then launch a TCPIP application like IE. Sometimes immediately, other times after several minutes, their connection simply stalls. All data traffic stops. They can no longer ping. Even if they close the app, the ability to send traffic does not return. Happens with IE, netscape, OE. Installed latest IE5 and reset all browser defaults. Customers both have different modems. One runs Win98, the other Win98SE. One has AOL5, the other doesn't. Tried disabling AOL Dialup Adapter. Removed extra occurences of wsock.vxd in the AOL directories. Removed TCPIP and DUN and reinstalled. Cannot pin this problem down. Might now be related to the DSP's at all, but I figured I'd give this list a shot. Maybe someone else has run across this problem. Any ideas? -- Regards, Scot - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo(a)xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.

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(usr-tc) 3COM SUPPORT
by jeff.binkley＠asacomp.com 29 May '00

29 May '00

Folks, On a slightly off topic discussion does anyone now where/how to get a Sportster modem replaced under warranty ? I went through 3Com's website, through 2 voice reponse systems, talked to nobody but a machine and still aren't any closer to get an RMA numebr for this modem. Thanks in advance. Jeff Binkley ASA Network Computing CMPQwk 1.42-21 9999 - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo(a)xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.

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