Re: Portmaster RADIUS Users Digest V96 #172

Brian Young (byoung@oru.edu)
Fri, 4 Oct 1996 10:14:57 -0500

I have had 8 out of 15 USR 33.6's go out since we bought them. Mostly they
won't accept incoming calls (they connect and then hang up), or the outgoing
calls connect at full speed, but then transmit slowly and sporadically.
What a pain.

At 08:22 PM 10/4/96 +1000, you wrote:
>
>I dont iknow about you guys, but there seems to be a lot of 33.6K modems
>with USR chips out there doing very wierd things. A number of my users
>have bought them and they are failing in all sorts of ways. Some dont
>respond at all, some wont create a socket but will run terminal mode,
>some will create a socket then after downloading a few bytes from a web
>site will lock up.
>
>Very strange...
>
>
>Russell from Australiagate.
>
>
>On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Robert Hanson wrote:
>
>>
>> do you control your pri and sec dns? this almost seems like a dns prob..
>> or your pm setup prob... we shall see...
>>
>> do you have a default host in the pm? i.e.
>>
>> show global
>>
>> is that the solaris box?
>>
>> then look at a port in the pm that is giving you this problem
>>
>> set sXX extended on
>> save SXX
>> show sXX
>>
>> does the host say "default"?
>>
>> if so... then...
>>
>> show table host
>>
>> if anything is there... id remove it if you control primary and secondary
>> dns...
>>
>> then... consider...
>>
>> set sXX host solaris-box-ip-address
>>
>> yet you need to do this for all ports if it fixes it...
>>
>> this has always fixed that problem for me...
>>
>> but i do pri and sec dns for me as well as pri and sec radius...
>>
>> sound right people :-?
>>
>>
>> --->
>> Robert H. Hanson Cutting Edge Communications, Inc. - blah,blah
>> Otis Orchards, Wa. Regional Commercial Internet Service Provider
>> (509) 927-9541 email: roberth@cet.com - http://www.cet.com/
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Gene James wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > > From: Igor Brezac <igor@ipass.net>
>> > > Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 18:30:53 -0400 (EDT)
>> > > Subject: Radius unable to authenticate
>> > >
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > My users are starting to get "Host is currently unavailable" when they
>> > > login. We use radius on Solaris and we have four PM2E, all users are
>> > > authenticated through their UNIX passpord file. Is there any way to
>> > > reduce the occurance of this error? We also have fair amount UNIX
>> > > accounts. Would Network Service like NIS(+) help?
>> >
>> > We are getting this like crazy lately. I've determined that is it occuring
>> > when USR modems call our newest SupraFAX 336 modems (ver 1.440-12 or
>> > better). It is absolutely repeatable. We run radius on a Linus box.
>> >
>> > I have not determined WHY this is happening, all the modems I have to test
>> > with do not exhibit this behavior!
>> >
>> > Gene James
>> > Westmoreland Online, Inc.
>> >
>>
>
>
byoung@oru.edu
Brian Young
Internet Systems Administrator