Inexplicable PM failures

Dave Andersen (angio@aros.net)
Fri, 29 Sep 1995 14:15:46 -0600 (MDT)

Here's a neat trick. I hooked all of my modems up to the happy new
portmaster (including lines which used to be hooked to a cisco). This
morning, I had to power down my portmaster to plug it in to its new UPS.
When I rebooted it, lines 0-9 and 10-19 were not working. They'd drop
carrier on the modems when I reset them, but they wouldn't talk to the
modems. I thought, "That's odd" and rebooted again. This time, only
lines 10-19 were not working. After some fussing and *utter* panick, I
hooked 16 of the lines from 0-15 back up to a cisco. And then everything
was happy. (Throughout this ordeal, lines 20-29 were fully functional).

In short, HELP! :) Anyone had this happen before? I'm beginning to
feel cursed as far as the portmasters go.

-Dave Andersen

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