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RE: (ASCEND) P50 Software Upgrade




My original post (now rather stale) asked for assistance re upgrading
P-50 software. I called the ISP, Clark Net in Maryland, and ended up
talking with a Verio tech support person in Dallas (Clark Net was
recently sold to Verio) who weas very knowledgeable but unable to
resolve my immediate difficulty (unstable connection to remote P-60,
but he emailed tech at Clark Net. This followed several days of futile
calls to Ascend, then posting to this group. Dean asked whether the
P-50 really WAS running 3.x and, when I attempted another remote login
to confirm my recollection on this point the P-50 failed to respond,
but showed version 4.5 (I think)...another login 30 minutes later
showed 4.6Cp8. My conclusion: Clark Net was upgrading me while I was
trying to ascertain the version #. Strange experience. 

The P-50 is now very solid and seems a tad faster than before. I just
installed the (very sweet for only $100) throughput monitor CyberGuage
that draws a pretty real-time graph of traffic volume through the
router....too bad I didn't have it running before this problem. 

Thanks to Jim, Steven, and Dean for the great responses. No, we won't
be selling the P-50 (yes it is an old one with the slide switch on the
back). 

..just noticed that Steven is at Verio...a couple of days after above
Verio/Clark Net incident, a woman from Verio called me to ask whether
our difficulty had been resolved OK....best tech support action I've
experienced in a long time. Thanks, Verio...good luck with your stock
IPO.

Dave



---Steven Guerin <sguerin@verio.net> wrote:
>
> WHOA.  I sure would like to see that Pipeline.  Granted I haven't been
> in the "pipeline world" for very long, the oldest software I've seen
is
> 4.3
> 
> ===
> Steven Guerin <sguerin@verio.net>
> Verio Gulf South Technical Operations
> 
> 
> > ----------
> > From: 	David Robson[SMTP:robson555@yahoo.com]
> > Sent: 	Wednesday, April 22, 1998 10:18 PM
> > To: 	ascend-users@bungi.com
> > Subject: 	(ASCEND) P50 Software Upgrade
> > 
> > I am a novice Ascend user who took over a school network that is
being
> > served by a Pipeline 50. Present P50 software is version
3.something.
> > 
> > I am interested in building some IP filters but was told that I
should
> > first upgrade version to 5.x 
> > 
> > (1) Is this advice correct?
> > 
> > (2) Is there any chance of such an upgrade causing incompatibility
> > with the compression software that presently runs on the ISP's
> > identical P50?
> > 
> > (3) Where can I find instructions for the upgrade procedure?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Dave
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > ==
> > 
> > David Robson            robson555@yahoo.com
> > Computer Support        Towson High School, MD, USA
> > 
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==

David Robson            robson555@yahoo.com
Computer Support        Towson High School, MD, USA

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