Re: (PM) PM2 not resetting modem (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@megazone.org)
Sat, 13 Mar 1999 18:25:22 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Craig Baird shaped the electrons to say...
>Microannexes locking up every couple of weeks. Xylogics (Bay Networks
>now) couldn't figure it out, so finally in desperation we jumped into

Actually Nortel Networks now. :-) (For those who don't know, I worked
at Xylo before Livingston.)

>The only complaint I had with the PM25s was that they wouldn't reset the
>modem after each call, and from what I could tell, can't be configured
>to do so. I was used to this because my Microannexes did it. After I

Correct, the strings are only sent at boot or with each admin 'reset' of the
port. NOT after every call. In fact, when the modem string ability was
added there was a lot of yelling to make sure it didn't do it after every
call - lots of people saying it'd burn out their modems FLASH, etc.

My opinion is that any *good* modem doesn't *NEED* it after every call.
Any modem that routinely loses its settings and needs the NAS to reset them
is not fit for ISP duty. Period.

-MZ

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