(ASCEND) TNT 7.0.4

[Matt Holdrege <matt@ascend.com>]

MAX TNT and DSL TNT TAOS 7.0.4 are available from Customer Support. 

MAX TNT and DSL TNT TAOS 7.0.4  contain the following:

Corrections:
* TR 4582 Series56-II modems Out-of-Buffers error could cause card to pass
no traffic. 
* After running overnight traffic on the 24-port SDSL card, some channels
failed. 
* Warning 179 could cause multihost TCP-Clear login sessions to fail. 
* Transmit problems observed on Ethernet-1 card. 
* Disable V42bis compression for PHS calls. 

Conexant (formerly Rockwell) firmware versions:

* Series56 II Digital Modem Modules support Conexant V5.3287 firmware,
which includes support for V.90, K56flex, K56plus, and all slower, standard
modem speeds.
* Series56 Digital Modem Modules support Conexant V2.098-K56_2M_DLP_CSM
firmware, which includes support for V.90, K56flex, K56plus, and all
slower, standard modem speeds.
* V.34 Digital Modem Modules support Conexant V1.610G24-V34_DP.

The 2.098 Conexant firmware includes a workaround in V.8bis for Lucent
interoperability, and improved Lucent client V.90 modem connectivity. Users
still should upgrade their Lucent client modems with new Lucent firmware as
available. The 2.098 Conexant firmware also provides the following user
features:

* Added S202/bit6 to control V90 high power after V8. 
* Added S220 to control answer tone length on Server. By default, S220 =
11, corresponding to 5 seconds of answer tone. Each unit in S220
corresponds to 450 ms, because each phase reversal is 450 ms long. For
example, S220 = 19 will increase the answer tone time to 8.6  seconds. S220
= 03 will decrease the answer tone time to 1.4 seconds. 
* Fixed semicolon (;) handling with +MS command.

Known issues:
* Use of this release is not recommended with Rev. B or lower of the
Ethernet-2 card (TNT-SL-E10-100, part number 0800-0433-001). If you have a
Rev. B or lower Ethernet-2 card, contact your Ascend representative to
obtain an upgrade to Rev. C or higher. The Rev. B or lower cards continue
to work with releases earlier than 7.0.0. 
* MP bonding of analog calls is supported, but some client modems and
software may have compatibility problems.
* The DS3-ATM card can sometimes generate a fatal error when operating
under heavy load with multiple configured VPI/VCIs. 
* Configurable receive and transmit data rate limits are not supported on
the DS3 ATM card. They are supported on the CAP-RADSL, SDSL, and
unchannelized DS3 cards.
* If you replace an older Ethernet card with the new Ethernet-2 card, you
must write new Ethernet profiles for the new card. The old Ethernet
profiles do not carry forward.
* Connection profiles for ATMP mobile clients ignore the Shared-Profile
setting. Shared-Profile is implicitly set to Yes for all ATMP mobile client
Connection profiles. 
* LAN-Modem profiles contain entries for 96 devices. For 48-port modem
cards, only the first 48 entries are used.
* This release is not recommended for use with DM48-v.34 cards under heavy
load. 
* The 24-port SDSL data card sometimes stops transmitting and receiving
data when handling continuous heavy bidirectional traffic (>15 Mbps) on all
24 ports. In addition, when one of the SDSL ports is connected or
disconnected at maximum line performance reach (AWG = 24; loop length =
13750 ft.), the rest of the ports can stop transmitting and receiving data.


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