Don't forget about this bug: Uptime bug is referenced in UTStarcom documentation as AnswerID 3497; ============= If you are experiencing poor performance and / or operational slowdown on your network of the HiPer ARC card and the card uptime is over 400 days, please update the codebase to the following releases - 5.3.135 or better (for TCS 4.5) or 5.7.135 or better (for TCS 4.7). Previous versions of code will require a scheduled reboot every year to prevent problems such as: Random Packet Bus failure Management Bus failure of HiPer ARC reported by NMC Inability to ping the HiPer ARC card Various commands via telnet or console fail to complete on the HiPer ARC. ============= So I have reminder to myself to reboot the boxes every August. Frank -----Original Message----- From: Clayton Zekelman [mailto:clayton@MNSi.Net] Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2015 9:24 AM To: frnkblk@iname.com; willd@staff.gwi.net; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Dial Up Solutions 3Com TC here. 9 users online at the moment. Surprises me that it's that high. Last reboot on the HiperARC was 399 days ago. I almost forgot how to log on to the damned thing. At one time we had over 3000 DS0s worth of dialup capacity. At 09:37 AM 17/10/2015, frnkblk@iname.com wrote:
We're still using USR Robotics/3com TotalControls and were able to get some spare parts from our statewide telecom partner when they shut down their stuff. Most common problem we see now are fan failures, but we just cannabilize existing the fans out of a fan tray. The volume of calls are so low that there are no hours that no one is dialed in, and at most we see two people connected at one time.
Frank
-----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Will Duquette Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 2:29 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Dial Up Solutions
Does anyone have any suggestions on equipment for our ISP that is still supporting dial up customers?
At the moment we are running 3Com Total Control 1000's but are running out of spare parts as we have failures. Given that this gear is so old trying to source spare parts is proving to be difficult.
We do have access to an Cisco AS5200 but are looking for maybe a SIP based solution that could possibly run on our VM farm? Has anyone heard of anything like that or does it even exist?
What kind of gear are you running if you still are supporting dial up customers?
Thanks in advance
-- Will Duquette GWI Network Systems Engineer www.gwi.net
-- Clayton Zekelman Managed Network Systems Inc. (MNSi) 3363 Tecumseh Rd. E Windsor, Ontario N8W 1H4 tel. 519-985-8410 fax. 519-985-8409