Re: (PM) comparative V.90 success rates

Jordan Mendelson (jordy@wserv.com)
Mon, 08 Mar 1999 19:00:04 -0500

pmaster@sentex.net wrote:
>
> A number of people have writen me privately for information on how to
> generate and track disconnect reasons, so I will post them here. Note,
> that in the past each time I have posted this information, several people
> always email me asking how to do it. I send them the info, yet to this
> day, I have only heard from *one* other person. Not very nice statistics
> :-( Hopefully, with this round, someone will post some comparative
> results.

I've reported this over and over. If you see an extremely high number of
"Lost Carrier" messages in your syslog, take a real close look at them.
You might see something like what we have:

# grep S34 logs
Mar 8 16:51:05 pm1.wlm portmaster: port S34 terminated - Lost Carrier
Mar 8 16:57:31 pm1.wlm portmaster: port S34 terminated - Lost Carrier
Mar 8 16:58:57 pm1.wlm portmaster: port S34 terminated - Lost Carrier
Mar 8 17:47:22 pm1.wlm portmaster: port S34 terminated - Lost Carrier
Mar 8 17:48:16 pm1.wlm portmaster: port S34 terminated - Lost Carrier
Mar 8 17:48:56 pm1.wlm portmaster: port S34 terminated - Lost Carrier
Mar 8 17:49:50 pm1.wlm portmaster: port S34 terminated - Lost Carrier
Mar 8 18:01:02 pm1.wlm portmaster: port S34 terminated - Lost Carrier
Mar 8 18:02:36 pm1.wlm portmaster: port S34 terminated - Lost Carrier
Mar 8 18:11:22 pm1.wlm portmaster: port S34 terminated - Lost Carrier
Mar 8 18:11:45 pm1.wlm portmaster: port S34 terminated - Lost Carrier
Mar 8 18:16:24 pm1.wlm portmaster: port S34 terminated - Lost Carrier

There were *NO* calls at all made on this particular port, but it keeps
spitting out "Lost Carrier" left and right for no particular reason.

The real way to get Lost Carrier reporting is of course radius.

RADIUS reporting:
Lost Carrier 7.84% 936/11942

SYSLOG reporting:
Lost Carrier 1.05% 111/10528

Note the difference in the number of total disconnects is almost exactly
what the difference between the number of Lost Carrier disconnects is.
There are a few other messages which loop sometimes.

This has happened to me for the longest time, even with the newest
ComOS's. MZ keeps telling me to call up and report it... but it really
is more annoying than anything else.

Jordan

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