Patcan
On Mon, 11 Sep 1995, Tim Chase wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 11 Sep 1995, Chris Woods wrote:
>
> > ...
> > We have an alarming number of incidents where part of the FLASH in the
> > Portmaster becomes corrupted, usually the `System Messages' area, so that
> > every once in a while, a Portmaster will lose its brains, and upon any
> > connection to the unit, instead of the usual, comforting
> > ...
> > Does anyone have any idea what is so different about our network that
> > could cause this sort of problem? All our subscribers are doing SLIP/PPP
> > ...
>
> As another data point, we've got around 20 IRX's and a few PM30's. My
> greatest fear when doing an OS upgrade is that the flash will get
> toasted. Livingston routers have, in general, been very reliable, but
> the flash seems to be the first thing to break. Fortunately, if the
> flash is hosed, I can (so far) always netboot, and since Livingston
> will send a replacement before we have to RMA it, I've been rather
> happy.
>
> My only real problem are a handful of IRX's in far-awap POPs which I'm
> afraid to upgrade.
>
> Is flash, in general, fragile? I've never seen it go bad in our Ciscos,
> but we don't have nearly as many of them.
>
>
> - Tim Chase
> manager@alpha.net
>
Pat Jensen _\\|//_
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