> 1. It bloats the code. Extraneous features like that are shunned, the PM-2,
> 25, IRX, OR all have 512K flash, and 1/4 of that is used for configs.
Perhaps it's time to modernize a bit. I'm fairly new to Livingston gear,
but I think the PM2 has been out for several years. I remember my grad
shcool department almost buying a box from Cayman that now seems like it
must have been a PM2e10 in disguise...and that was a few years back.
A 30 port terminal server / router with 1mb RAM sounds a little
prehistoric to me. First thing I did when we got a PM2 was upgrade it to
4mb. 1mb simms are cheap and easy to come by....I don't have a clue what
flash costs.
> >bugs me even more. In my earlier post today, nobody caught the fact that
> >I'd forgotten the strategic placement of quotes. i.e.:
>
> Actually I noticed that immediately - I have your first letter sitting here
> waiting for a reply. Of course, this is today...
Well...nobody said anything about it. It took an extra hour or so to
realize that problem. Funny thing is, today I hooked up a monitor to the
server to watch it reboot for a kernel upgrade, and there were radiusd
errors all over the screen...something about a parse error for a
particular user. Perhaps it would be useful if radiusd printed such error
messages to the logfile or even syslog'd them. I looked in those files at
the time and saw nothing...and as I as at the remote site, stderr wasn't
too helpful.
> That's a perfectly normal location table entry. Nothing special. My OR
> is doing that right now for my LAN at home. And it is identical on the PM-2.
Fortunately, I wasn't responsible for that end. The client has their own
PM2 and felt comfortable setting it up. He never got it to work.
Watching my PM2, it seemed his was trying to CHAP, even though we were
pretty sure he'd disabled CHAP. Anyway...the Linux box and bitsurfer
turned out to be much easier to get going than the PM2 and bitsurfer. If
he had a BRI card, I'd keep trying with his PM2...but since he's going to
use the BSpro, I doubt there's any advantage.
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