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Re: (ASCEND) Cause Code 17.



At 01:03 PM 6/11/97 -0400, Jason Nealis wrote:
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>On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Matt Holdrege wrote:
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>> At 07:49 AM 6/11/97 -0400, Jason Nealis wrote:
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>> > Ok, Gotta a prob, If a MAX 4000 looses a modem pack or 3-4 modems, Then
>> >it dosen't have enough resources to answer a call (I run 3 pri's on my 
>> >box's) well anyway, The call continue to come down the channels and the
>> >Max sends back I believe a Cause Code 17, (Resources not Avail) this
>> >should tell the switch to seek further up in the hunt group untill
>> >it finds resources to take the call, 
>> >
>> >But, what happens is the entire Hunt group busies out. I have seen
>> >then on 5ESS's along with DMS100's. My question is, Is the Cause Code
>> >17 the correct code to send, And how should my switch be configured to
>> >react in this senerio.
>> 
>> The switch should send a busy by default.
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>So if the MAX looses a modem pack, And dosen't have the necessary
>resources to answer a call, It busies out the entire hunt group?
>Lets see, My biggest hunt group consists of 150 pri's, If I loose
>a modem pack say in the front of that hunt group, The MAX has
>just brought down 3000+ incomming channels. 

I must not have understood your question right. If the Max returns a CC 17,
the switch will proceed to the next channel as per it's hunting algorithm.
It will keep going until it gets an answer or a busy.

OK?


Matt Holdrege  -  http://www.ascend.com  -  matt@ascend.com
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