Hi Andrew, Brilliant information - and MUCH appreciated. We have operations in the US (Atlanta) as well in SA (Cape Town). I will forward this to my US partners where they can take it further as far as SAGE goes...
We are currently on AS5300s, which to my understanding is still a active product... Thank you kindly, once again -- Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Pilley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 1:51 AM Subject: Re: OT: Cisco AS > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 01:36:12AM +0200, Chris Knipe wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > We've been having allot of problems lately with our Cisco AS series access servers. We're heard that Cisco does make poor Remote Access? products and that it is actually quite common for Cisco AS to drop calls when the CPU or Port Utilization becomes to high. This would mainly mean that analogue connections would all of a sudden connect allot slower, and that ISDN calls would be terminated... > > i've recently become an administrator for a cisco as5200 series access > server. i'd have to actually agree with you in that part. I've been > informed several times about the poor quality of the cisco equipment, > and i'm inclined to agree with what i've been told. > > Running a 60 port cisco as5200 is yielding us constant dropouts with the > second line in the cisco device, to the point where i'm considering > splitting off the two lines, and installing the second standby cisco AS > to handle the second 30 lines. > > Keep in mind, the cisco as5200 i'm using is OLD. there are newer models, > and they may operate better, but this certainly appears to have issues > (quite possibly due to the configuration, mind you) > > > > > Have any of you ever experienced something like this on Cisco AS, or know of any possible links or sites which may have something on these matters? I'm sorry for the OT post, this is basically the closest mailing list that I am subscribed in that I can ask something like this, so I hope you'll still be helpful... > > Depending on what country you're in, allow me to recommend you find an > organisation of professional system administrators, like SAGE (System > Administrators Guild, www.sage.org for america, or www.sage-au.org.au > for australia) for your area. These organisations are often pay-to-join, > but are invaluable for technical advice. > > Regards > Andrew Pilley > > > > > Thanks! > > -- > > me > > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
