ISDN problems

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Mon, 28 Oct 1996 11:53:30 -0500 (EST)

I know a few of you have been having ISDN problems similar to mine...where
the PM decides that certain BRI's are bad, though the telco and my
Bitsurfer beg to differ. This recently happened to 3/4 of the BRI's on
our PM2ei so I called up support and gave them access to it. We actually
had a telco tech out to check our T1 when I noticed the ISDN problem...so
he tested all our BRI's and said they were all clean. Support upgraded
the PM from 3.3.2c1 to 3.3.3...and told me that they don't recommend using
the ISDN HD port, which I had been using. So I made individual wires from
cat5 for each BRI.

It's only been almost 3 days since the upgrade...so I don't know yet if
it's gotten better...last time it took nearly a month for the unit to bug
out. I thought it was odd that I didn't recall seeing any mention of the
HD port not being recommended. Has anyone else been told this?

Also, has anyone else seen "extra" D channels show up in "show isdn"? I
only have 4 BRI hooked up and only have ports for 10 BRI...but D channel
14 was showing up in the "show isdn" and its stats were pretty off the
wall...huge positive and negative numbers.

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