Re: crappy pm3's

Alex Rubenstein (alex@nac.net)
Fri, 02 May 1997 13:39:55 -0300

Yes, but I also would like ti give my customers service when they call for it,

Also, the PM has megs and megs of free ram; whats the problem?

At 08:26 AM 5/2/97 -0700, John G. Thompson wrote:
>Well, let me ask you a question.
>
>If you are running accounting, do you want accurate records?
>
>JGT
>
>At 11:13 AM 5/2/97 -0300, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
>>
>>are you going to fix it?
>>
>>At 11:59 AM 5/1/97 -0700, John G. Thompson wrote:
>>>Yes, I've seen it.
>>>
>>>Accounting data is considered critical data and it is kept in the machine
>>>until either there is an ack from an accounting server or, as you have
>>>seen, the ComOS 'wigs out'.
>>>
>>>JGT
>>>
>>>At 01:46 AM 5/1/97 -0400, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
>>>>
>>>>Strange.
>>>>
>>>>nac-new6> ver
>>>>Livingston PortMaster PM-3 ComOS 3.5c6
>>>>System uptime is 53 days 4 hours 0 minutes
>>>>
>>>>And that is when it was upgraded.
>>>>
>>>>The only STRANGE thing I have seen, and this is not a PM3 issue, but a PM
>>>>issue runnign 3.5x, is the following:
>>>>
>>>>When the Radius Accounting (not AUTH) server is down, and Acct oackets get
>>>>held up in the PM, the PM starts to wig out, showing lots and lots of
>>>>ports in the 'CONNECTING' state, with no one actually on the port. Has
>>>>anyone else seen this?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>On Thu, 1 May 1997, Edward Henigin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> pm3's are crap.
>>>>>
>>>>> We have 5 of them, (3 for a couple of months) and I've yet to get
>>>>> my problem resolved with them.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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