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Re: (ASCEND) v.90

I've been in the ISP business for about 18 months now, and since day 1, I've
been using Ascend products.  Ascend Max 4004, 1800, 4048, Pipeline 50,
Netwarp PRO, and of course, Radius.

I don't know how long you've been working with Ascend products, but over the
last 18 months, I've used about every 3rd or 4th code release (from 4.6C to
6.0.4) for the Max 4k and 1800.  Stacking has worked in every version, RIP
has worked in every version.  Recently, I turned RIP off, and moved on to
OSPF.  Worked like a charm soon as I booted up (kinda sucks to have to
reboot to get OSPF going).

The only issues I really have with Ascend, are:

  their absurd support hours -- 9am to 9pm?  I want to be able
  to call them at 4am if anything goes wrong when I'm upgrading
  firmware, or at 11pm if a box dies under heavy load (neither has
  happened yet, but still...)

  Somewhere along the line, we lost the ability to queisce lines so
  that I can cycle users off one box and on to another.  This would
  prevent the need to upgrade at 4am :)


I don't know what your beef is, but I've had no serious problems that didn't
end up being directly caused by a mistake I made.  I have confidence that
when the v.90 code comes out, it'll be of better quality than k56flex was
when initially released, which wasn't too awful bad anyways (sure it had
problems, but the few flex users we had at the time understood the nature of
the problem).

--
    Troy Settle <st@i-Plus.net>
    Network Administrator, iPlus Internet Services
    http://www.i-Plus.net


-----Original Message-----
From: Brett Hawn <blh@staff.texas.net>
To: ascend-users@bungi.com <ascend-users@bungi.com>
Date: Tuesday, May 12, 1998 10:14 AM
Subject: (ASCEND) v.90


>Ok,
>
> I'll be the first to admit I went a bit too far, I personally have not
>tested the v.90 code (with good reason, which I think is all too
>apparenent). Some of you folks have been around long enough to know, I used
>to be a HUGE ascend supporter, some of you are relatively new and don't
know
>that.  Fact of the matter is, that within 2 years Ascend has pushed my
>opinion of them so low I don't believe it can be raised again. Consistently
>piss poor engineering of their boxes, consistently flawed code.
>
>  Here's a question for you, when was the last time you saw truly working
>firmware for an Ascend? You know.. one that had OSPF, RIP, Stacking, and
all
>the other toys working... at the _SAME_ time. Oh.. one release may work w/
>Stacking, and another might even working with OSPF, but at the same time?
>Lordy be.. that'd be *&^%$#@ing miracle if there ever was one.
>
>
>  Want me to believe you Kevin? (and therefore by extension Ascend) Its
>simple.. start producing results. How many times has it been pointed out to
>you people that you need to _STOP_ putting in all the nifty little bells
and
>whistles and make the _CORE_ product work first. Last time I checked OSPF
>was still unstable, lots of folks seem to have problems with stacking, etc.
>If you can't get this to work I'm damn sure not going to believe a word you
>say when you start shooting off statistics on how the v.90 code works.
>
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