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(ASCEND) my idiocy knows no bounds
They say there are no stupid questions, but I'm going to give it a try.
:)
I cannot make my MAX 2000 ... do anything. :) Right now I simply want it
to talk to the leased T-1 line via the external CSU/DSU. I did get a
cable finally which seems to work in connecting it to the external
CSU/DSU, but I now have two problems. First, there isn't anything
appropriate to set in the connection profile for the speed of connection,
so it says 64000. I guess I should just ignore this figure - isn't the
speed of the V.35 port controlled by the CSU/DSU? The other problem is
that I can't get it to route anything over the serial line.
I have a cisco 2501 on the other end of the line and the two are supposed
to connect using PPP. I don't know how to configure the IP addresses on
the WAN link, however. The two are supposed to inhabit a /30 subnet and
communicate via PPP, with the MAX being 199.35.194.34 and the Cisco being
199.35.194.33. There is a class C on the other side of the Max on the
Ethernet interface, and on the other cide of the Cisco everything...
works. :) I tried setting the "LAN address" to 199...33/30 and the "IF
address" to 199...34/30, and everything looks okay, but I can't ping the
cisco. In the routing table I have the default route set with the cisco
as the gateway on wan0, but I don't see an actual route to the cisco in
there. There's host routes to 127.0.0.x and to 199...34 (my address on
the /30), and the /24 route to the class C, but nothing to the /30 subnet.
I would expect a route to the /30 subnet on the wan0 interface and the
default route with the cisco as gateway also on that interface.
I also tried setting the "Lan address" to the cisco and the IF address to
my ethernet address, and setting "WAN alias" to the address on the /30 I
have been assigned. That looks okay too, but it still doesn't work. And
I tried reversing the assignments, just for kicks, and that didn't work
either.
I don't really have any way of knowing for sure whether the PPP link is
even being established properly, since I don't have access to the cisco.
There doesn't appear to be any status display on the Max where I can
determine the PPP status. The message log said connection established,
but it does that even if the MAX isn't connected to the CSU/DSU at all, so
I don't consider it very reliable indicator. :) But I did use the
debugging commands and I can verify that SOMETHING is happening on the WAN
link. (Also the little light goes on on the CSU/DSU ;) ) About 1 (small)
packet per second, or a little more, goes each way on the link. But
without picking apart the PPP protocol, I don't really know what they're
doing. :)
Am I doing something obviously wrong? Do all PPP connections have to be a
host route, and the joke's on me (and the guy on the other end)? Is it
just not possible to connect an external CSU/DSU to the v.35 port, and the
joke's REALLY on me? Any suggestions? I'm using 5.0Ap11, because that's
what it came with. I'll upgrade as soon as I can make the link work well
enough to download new software.
I eventually plan to run OSPF over this link, but right now I have neither
RIP nor OSPF configured. But I doubt that would interfere with simple
pinging the router over the link.
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