Re: 5-BRI fails intermittently
alex (alex@agetech.net)
Tue, 04 Jun 1996 13:00:37 -0400
Mike Ossmann wrote:
>
> On Mon, 3 Jun 1996, Dave Carmean wrote:
>
> > Our 5-BRI card stops working every couple of days. Incoming
> > calls get "NO CARRIER". When I attach to one of the ports, and
> > try to dial back in, the first thing I see is a disconnect message, and
> > then nothing else. Rebooting the portmaster is the only way to get
> > it to work again. The lines are 5ESS P-T-P, and show good
> > status of "DCD- CTS+ TELCO+ NT1+".
>
> We have the same problem, but I haven't done much about it yet. Now is a
> good time. We have a PM2e with 20 async and 5-bri (the PM2e only version)
> running 3.3.1 on a 5ess ni-1 switch. The ports show "NO-SERVICE" and
> "DCD- CTS+ TELCO+ NT1+". This is supposed to mean "spid not registered",
> but the spid is correct, and when I called the telco to test it, they
> could see all the way to the nt1 with no problem. Rebooting fixes it. I
> haven't seen this happen for several days, but it had been happening two
> or three times a week.
>
> I have also noticed that other changes don't happen unless I reboot. For
> instance, if I:
>
> set s20 spid <invalid-number>
> reset s20
>
> People can still connect to s20. It doesn't complain about the invalid
> spid until I reboot.
>
> Could this be a problem with the pm2e-only 5-bri board? Dave, do your
> ports show "NO-SERVICE" when this happens? Does anyone else have this
> problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
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I just talked to me rep at Bellsouth and he said I needed to order custom ISDN line instead of the NI-1 or my lines wont
hunt. Does anyone currently use NI-1 on their BRI cards and work perfectly??
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