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Re: (ASCEND) Pipeline 220 - Very slow



>From: Scott Page <scott@ultimateis.com>
>>>My company has been happily using a Pipeline 130 for about 8 months.  It is
>>>connected to a fractional 512k T1 Frame Relay line.  We recently purchased a
>>>Pipeline 220 about 2 weeks ago (we are splitting our network for web servers
>>>and secure internal network.  Everything on the 220 runs great for about
>>>15min, then only pings and e-mail go through.  HTTP, FTP and other protocols
>>>are very slow.  SMTP mail is still as fast as it has been.  I have tried
>>>about every version of firmware.  Even if I only use one of the Ethernet
>>>ports, the 220 slows to almost a stop.  Ascend nor my ISP have figured this
>>>out yet.  I have sent a trace to Ascend support using the wann 64 and wano
>>>64 commands in diag.  If anyone has any suggestions I would appreciate it
>>>immensely.  I have a deadline to get this box working by Sept. 15th 1998.
>
>>Make sure you aren't filtering ARP on the Ethernet. Just an idea.
>>
>>http://www.ascend.com/696.html covers it.
>
>I have no filters set

Sounds like an ARP problem to me, due to the dying-off after some time. Are
you running proxy ARP on more than one device? You say you have a "secure
internal network". What's securing it? Perhaps a firewall is interfering?
Have you looked at traceroute?

Etc., etc.

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