>> One thing that john@netrom.com correctly pointed out, that these statistics
>> include failed calls that never got completed. Although this skews the
>> results somewhat, it does provide an interesting insight. Assuming that
>> your hunt pool is not one digit off the local pizza parlor, the difference
>> in the disconnect rates between *all* attempted and completed calls shows
>> that some modems cannot connect at all on the first try.
>
>You don't need to be 'next to' a pizza parlor for screwed up results;
>all it takes is one inattentive novice user hiring a novice consultant
>to do an ISDN config. The consultant hired by one of our usersw left
>his router trying and failing to dial in DOV:
> 1. router dials
> 2. router tries to talk DOV to a modem
> 3. router gives up and hangs up
> 4. PM syslogs call-circuit-closed termination
> 5. go to #1
>
>Once a minute, round the clock, for days - 17,000 calls
Yup, I have seen something similar to that before. A 'consultant' setup a
a TA with a bad password and I have a) one line effectivly busied out b)
messed up statistics, although bad passwords show up as something else.
---Mike
Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net)
Sentex Communications Corp,
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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