Also sprach Jim Tarvid
Yeah... so??? That's a router. How much has v.35 interfaces changed over the last 10 years. How much as 10base-T ethernet changed over the last 10 years?
Is 3com stuff carrier grade equipment?
That's what they claim. The Total Control was part of the Carrier Group within 3Com before CommWorks was spun off.
If so, my phone companies are running switches more than 5 years old.
Shoot...BellSouth is running swithes that are 20 years old in some cases.
I don't think we have to support 300 and 1200 baud modems anymore and LCP could be a lot leaner.
x2 could certainly be ditched as far as I'm concerned assuming this is a memory constraint.
As for v.92, I would settle for faster connections and live without the fancy voice features.
Yup, and I certainly won't complain if v.59 is not ever available for quads. I'd love to have it, but v.92 is the only "must-have" upgrade really needed.
Releasing code for EOL-ed boxes would be a stroke of genius. If you are depending on "trade secrets" from five years ago in this business, you are in trouble. If you are relying on 5 year old open standards you are probably on the right track.
The problem with open sourcing here is that there are patent issues with just about any modem code. Reading the linmodems list and web site, any modem faster than...I think they said 9600baud...has patent constraints on it. Like the comparison with the cisco 2500 though, just because a piece of equipment can't do all of the latest and greatest doesn't mean it has to be EOL'ed. *This*, with the possible exception of support issues, is probably the A#1 thing that 3Com/CommWorks needs to learn. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456 - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@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.