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Re: (ASCEND) P50/USR 2B aggravation



Doug Wyatt wrote:
> 
> At 10:29 -0500 5/29/1997, William C Bonner wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 May 1997, Doug Wyatt wrote:
> > > Three times now, the second B channel has dropped when 15 minutes
> into a
> > > giant FTP transfer.  The transfer will continue successfully on
> the single
> > > B channel.  The CRC count is not high or rising -- 35 errors on
> about
> > > 70,000 packets since the last reboot.  "show isdn" simply says
> "CALL
> > > CLEARED WITH CAUSE: 16" which is the same cause code as when I
> tell the P50
> > > to manually hang up -- normal disconnection.
> > >
> > > The three times this happened, I've noticed that the connection
> timer was
> > > at 15:35, 15:45 and 18:something.  My ISP swears there is no
> connection
> > > timeout on his end.  Could the P50 be deciding to terminate the
> connection
> > > after 15 minutes for some reason?  I'm using 5.0Ap5.
> > >
> > > I usually only fire up the second B channel for large transfers,
> and
> > > they're usually less than 15 minutes, and usually work fine.  It's
> only the
> > > really enormous ones, or when I'm doing lots of things in one
> session, that
> > > the second channel drops -- and it's suspicious to me that it's
> always
> > > after 15 minutes, never sooner.
> >
> > Do you manually bring up the second B Channel, or are you letting
> the
> > system bring it up based on its Quadratic stuff?  Do you know that
> you are
> > ftp-ing from a site that will keep you over the quadratic threshold
> for
> > the entire download?  My experience with the ineternet has been that
> > things slow down, but if I'm downloading from one hop away, (and I
> am in
> > charge of both loacal and remote systems, so I know what is going
> on) I
> > don't have problems.
> 
> William,
> 
> I manually bring up the second B channel; I'm using MP (not MPP); the
> minimum and maximum channel count are 2.

How do you manually bring up the second B channel?  I never could find
a way to do this outside of the MPP settings.  

Also, MPP has the min/max channels.  MP only has the base channel
setting.

-- 
Dale E. Reed Jr.  (daler@iea.com)
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