>On PRIs if you busy out the modem, you busy out the rest of the span.
>show modem
The hell it does -- we have three PM cards with bad modems (out of 1 PM-4
and 8 PM-3s, so not too big a deal). Two of the bad modems self-down,
the third one has to be manually disabled with a "set modem 30 down". It
has absolutly no effect on the PRI span -- that's why you want 48 modems
for a 2PRI unit (2 spares), or 50 for a 2CT1 unit. This particular
portmaster is smack in the middle of our dialup pool, we'd know if it
wasn't taking a full 46 calls.
(for those who didn't know, PM-3 modems aren't looked to a particular
session port on the chassis. The "next free modem" is allocated to an
incoming call, so they can get pretty jumbled up due to modems being in
test state)
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