Re: (ASCEND) least droppy 6+ release

["Oliver J. Albrecht" <oj@nexus.flensbone.net>]

Hi,

In article <909002eb9ef8@news.allcon.net> you wrote:

>>what would you all say is the least droppy V90 supporting release for the
>>4048?

As Andre said, 7.0b6 if you're using Id Auth=Prefer and/or MPP, otherwise
you might try your luck with 7.0.0. FWIW, the latter is running just fine 
on our non-CLID and PPP-only boxes.

>all 6.1 have the zombie bug (HDLC calls go stuck in the spyder when
>under load) 

This one was fixed in 7.0b2 on Sept. 1st ("TR 250249     After a period of 
time Max Stops routing packets to dial-up P50s"), incredible that it still 
hasn't been worked out in the 6.1 branch.
Back when we were running 6.1.X this bug caused us *extreme* headaches.
Standard ISDN dial-up connections (HDLC, syncPPP) with virtually any hardware 
on the other side, would stop transporting data after a certain amount of
time. The bug was not related to the P50 only, almost all of our ISDN
callers were affected.
Often as soon as 2 minutes into the connection, sometimes after 2 hours the 
connection went "zombie". Since this bug went on for quite some time, we lost 
several customers who would not tolerate the "instability" of our access 
hardware.
I would consider this a major show-stopper, IMHO anyone using ISDN and V.90
should not consider 6.1.X.

-- 
Oliver J. Albrecht <oj@nexus.flensbone.net>
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