Re: (ASCEND) 6.1.7 vs 6.1.24?

[Neale Banks <neale@lowendale.com.au>]

On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Drew Linsalata wrote:

> With all the upgrade nightmare stories I've been hearing here, we're gonna
> stay far away from 7.x on our MAXen.  We're running 6.1.7 on our 4048s right
> now with excellent results in terms of stability, and acceptable results in
> terms of connect rates and completions.

Yes, it was a pretty good release :-)

> Any caveats from anyone running 6.1.24?  We've got the files on our tftp
> server just waiting to go, but I figured I'd ask the list for some feedback
> before we move ahead.

All has been well with 6.1.24 (febik.m40 build) except for one nasty
problem: after ~2wks of uptime modems slowly start going unavailable in a
"csum" state (just checked the 6.1.24 box: with uptime of 19 days it's
down 2/48 modems).

AFAIK, nobody else has reported this problem so it might be something
peculiar to the box I upgraded - OTOH, maybe 19+ days uptime isn't too bad
for a MAX4000 that's working fairly hard ;-).  Apparently there was some
extra modem-checking code in 6.1.24 that wasn't in 6.1.7 and that's what's
tripping up these modems.

I'd love to compare notes with anyone else who's seen this problem.

Regards,
Neale.

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