>*sigh* Ascends do not require MP+ support on the other end to do bandwith
>on demand, it is only required for some of the more advanced aspects that
>are particular to Ascends. They can still do bandwith on demand without
>the other end doing MP+ - which is how they work with every other box.
>People are doing bandwith on demand *today* from Ascend boxes to the 5BRI
>cards in PM-2 chassis.
In practice, this only works sometimes, I have not yet figured out
WHY it works on some pipeline50's and not on others, but our
experience is that most pipeline50's will NOT do bandwidth on demand
when speeking to the livingston 5BRI cards. Though I can see no
reason why it should not work, I've never seen a ascends os version
4.6 work, though it offerse more options for configuring it, and I
have seen it 'occasionaly' work on 4.5.
Jim McKenzie
mcs@isp.net