Re: (ASCEND) Ethernet port problem on TNT

[Peter Lalor <plalor@infoasis.com>]

>From: Tony Ray <tony@turbonet.com>
>
>I remember a while back that people were having problems with the TNT
>Ethernet 0 cards.  I don't recall the details except that they would
>stop functioning every once and a while and I don't remember the
>solution, if any, so I appologize for bringing this up (again).  One of
>these cards was sent with the TNT box I have and I haven't tried using
>it until now, but I definitely need the additional ethernet ports for a
>new service I'm offering.
>
>Every few days the 4-port 10 baseT Ethernet shelf card and the ethernet
>port on the controller shelf just stop functioning - I can't connect via
>telnet and radius stops working.  It appears first as a slow down and
>then fails altogether.  If I power the box up and down, everything comes
>back to "normal" for a few days.  The log only shows that the system was
>restarted.

While I haven't used those cards, I also recall that others were 
having trouble with them, and that the redesigned Ethernet cards 
don't have that problem. This is born out by the TAOS 8.0.0 release 
notes:

"Software support has been discontinued for the MAX TNT Ethernet-0 slot card
(TNT-SL-E10), the Fast (100 MB) Ethernet-1 slot card (TNT-SL-E100), 
and the older MAX
TNT Hybrid Access slot cards (TNT-SL-HA128 and TNT-SL-HA192)."

That's a laundry list of TNT Cards That Suck. ;-)

So, if anything beyond 7.2.x is in your future, you need a different 
card anyway.


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