> How about...
> 1. Default routing entries are not displayed,
> 2. The Edit cut and paste is not functional (published), although
> ctrl-C and ctrl-V do work,
> 3. Editing host tables causes a PMconsole GPF (and loss of Windows
> Resources) when the host table exceeds 982 bytes (approx
I get GPF's when I exit from User setups and re-enter USERS quite often. I
get this on any machine I use and I have used a dozen and under win, and
win 95.
> 43 host entries),
> 4. Host table allows complete duplicate entries, duplicate IP's,
> and/or duplicate names (with different IP's),
> 5. Following an "upgrade", spuradically will receive an error
> window mentioning something about 'cannot write to AUX port',
> 6. No checking for configuration version change problems that
> we are now all becoming somewhat sensitive to even though the
> information to do so is available to PMconsole,
> 7. The greater the amount of traffic moving through a PM2 when
> doing an "upgrade" from PMconsole, the higher the probability
> of corruption following a reboot,
> 8. When editing serial port values, the number of data bits does
> not appear on the screen, and apparently cannot be changed
> without telneting to the box or using a directly connected
> console port to edit the value from the PM2 command line.
> 9. etc...
>
> All of these have been seen from multiple WFW 3.11 machines
> configured in several different ways, and are otherwise very
> stable PC's.
> Rich
> adar0@routers.com
My main issues are the random GPF's I get and this is experienced on a
dozxen different machines, different brands, different ram, Win 3.1, Win
95, etc...
ALSO! I cannot run multiple copies of PM console or look at 2 portmasters
at one time, unless I acutally name the executable to something else.
This comes in handy if you want to compare 2 PMs.
ALSO! The scalablility of some of the boxes is not there or not adequate.
Not all of us have 1280x1024 screens to see these big windows on.
ALSO! It would be nice if I didnt have to type in the password every time
to access the portmasters. All mine have DIFFERENT passwords.
Also, you cannot delete entries in the portmaster unit list. Once you've
accessed it, its in the list forever. Im sure it could be manually
deleted.
PMCONSOLE is a resource hog!!!! What does it do that is so complicated
that it needs to gobble as much memory as it does?!!?!
Now maybe some of these are NON issues, that is, I have not read the docs
to closely. But those are my problems with it. I would appreciate if
someone could tell me if these issues have been resolved without totally
flaming me, thank you.
All in all, I am happy to have it. Its more than MOST term servers can
offer! And im glad that it works even with PM 11, altho some things say
they fail, like user upgrades. I attribute this to the fact that the
software is looking for a different "success" message. This could be
easily fixed i bet, hint, hint... Also I cannot create NEW network users
with pmconsole on a PM 11.
It sure beats ASCEND!
Hey, Id pay extra for PM console if it was a little better!
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