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Re: (ASCEND) Re: Ascend OSPF?
But how do you run a large pool without ospf? I have thousands of
customers with dedicated ip subnets dialing into a pool and rip-2 was
causing some serious outages (at least it didn't cause reboots).
--- On Mon, 19 Jan 1998 08:26:00 -0600 (CST)
jackmc-ascend@office.realtime.net wrote:
> They gave us all of these suggestions (changing the version for #1,
>of course) a YEAR ago. So make that at least 55 weeks and counting.
>Our maxen crashes anywhere from 10 minutes to three days after turning
>OSPF on.
>
>Big Brother tells me that Todd Bishop said:
>>
>> David,
>>
>> I don't know if you caught my previous post about this problem but I
>> thought I'd post it again JIC. As an update, the below suggestions
from
>> Ascend haven't helped me much and we are know at three weeks and
>> counting...
>>
>> This is a known bug TR2930 that Ascend is working on a fix for. They
>> gave me an estimate of "at least two weeks" about two weeks ago. They
>> also gave me a few suggestions to ease things until the fix arrives...
>>
>> 1. An upgrade to 5.0Ap38 on all 4 of our Max 4000's: Previously we
>> were running 5.0Ap33. (5.0Ap33 was worse.)
>>
>> 2. Turning "Pool Summary=Yes" in Ethernet->Mod Config->Wan Options.
>>
>> 3. Setting the "Priority=0" in Ethernet->Mod Config->OSPF Options.
>>
>> 4. Place the max in any area other than 0(backbone). This will prevent
>> other areas from injecting Summary Links to the area where Maxen are
>> located.
>>
>> 5. Place the max in a stub area(if only modem users connect to the max
>> and they get IP from pool).
>>
>> Read up on Pool Summary before applying that one before you use it in
>> case you are assigning addresses from pools in RADIUS which allows any
>> any of your Maxen to have addresses assigned from the same address
>> block. I had to assign /26 address subnets to use for pools for each
>> individual Max first. Pool summary will then summarize the routing
>> announcements to your OSPF network, i.e. instead of having a single /32
>> route to every individual dialup customer announced to each other Max on
>> your network, you'll have a single /26 route for all of the dialups on
>> that Max announced to the other Maxen. It shortens your routing table
>> considerably, especially if you have a lot of Maxen. Sort of like using
>> CIDR.
>>
>> Todd Bishop
>> Unicom Communications, Inc.
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David Power
V-P Operations
Insync Internet Services Inc.
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