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Re: (ASCEND) Need Upgrade Recommendation

>On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Greg Hale wrote:
>
>> I need to upgrade three 4048's for v.90
>>
>> I don't do any ISDN, all these are analog calls only.
>>
>> I'm running 6.0 now and had almost no problems with it.
>>
>> Is 6.1.3 a good bet for me?
>>
>> Are there any things that need to be configured a certain way to reduce
>> potential problems?
>> i.e. Stacking, LQM, etc.
>>
>>
>From: Alex P <alex@stomp.gomax.com>
>
>I say stay away, but that's just one opinion.  From a few hours after I
>made the switch until I backed down to the 6.0 tree, I had nothing but
>disconnection problems ranging from people who were connected for a
>second or two to people who could stay on for a 10-20 mins.  There were
>also the customers who had no problems at all, until about 2 days after
>the code was running, and the MAXen started freaking out.  Fatal errors
>which are being anylizyed by TAC, MAXen that would refuse telnet session
>to even let me in to figure out what was going on, Dropping everyone, even
>those who could maintain connections for hours right after the Up-grade,
>etc......   Unless you like to miss a lot of sleep, I'd steer clear, or
>try the 7.0 Beta.  At least it was supposed to have fixed the "refusing
>telnet" bug.

The disconnection problem sounds like the LQM bug. That issue, at least, is
resolved by disabling LQM.

As for whether to upgrade or not, what does it give you? If there's a
feature you want, I'd say try it out. The TAOS releases are working very
well for me.

But if there's nothing there you want and things are working fine, why fool
around? Go the 6.0.2 (or later) to fix the ping-of-death bug and leave it
at that.

Of course, I can't stand not having the latest, so I'm always taking arrows
in the back. ;-)

Peter Lalor           Infoasis
plalor@infoasis.com   http://www.infoasis.com/
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