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I think I've even put a DSP in my old 45A test chassis and had the netserver see it, but that was long ago...
Yeah, that works. We did that a few weeks ago during the transition from Quad/Netserver to DSP/ARC. We put the modems in first to see what, if any, connection issues arose so that we could be sure that issues were modem conpatability and what was ARC related.
Only thing that came up was the infamous Motorola SM56.
Perhaps someone else could lend some info about putting an ARC in the old 45A chassis. Never done that myself...
Hmmm, haven't tried that...
Yes, you can run Arcs against quads, NETServers against DSPs, any of the four card sets will go in a 45A chassis (or even in a 35A chassis if you have any of those old power supplies left still around...same chassis as the 45, but lower rated power supply). You don't need a HiPer NMC to do any of this. Putting a HiPer NMC will not (I guess I should say should not since I don't actually *have* any HiPer NMC's) affect latency of data transfers as the NMCs are not ever involved in the actual transfer of customer data. I'd believe it if someone said that the HiPer NMCs will lower "latency" on SNMP queries to the box, but not the infamous "Quake Lag" type of issue. Oh...and on running DSPs against a NETServer, you can do it with the later code revisions on the NETServer...they added commands that let you set the number of ports per card, so you could set it to 24 ports on cards 14 and 15 for example, so you could tell the NETServer about the extra ports on the DSP cards. I don't remember the commands offhand for this, but do remember that you had to manually configure it. -- 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.