Re: (RADIATOR) Best NAS my opinion
Well I can't say that I have used anything but what I am about to mention but I have found our Ascend Max4000(with 42 modems and some ISDN) and Max2000(28 modems and some ISDN also) They have been nothing but stable over the past year and more importantly the support from Aus Ascend has been great. There are a lot of people who will poo poo the Ascend gear but as a RAS they are great, I think you will find most problems occur when you start pushing them to do OPSF and other fancy stuff on top of the dial ins and ISDN, but that's why we just spent +$10K on a Cisco. BTW anyone know of a good Cisco mailling list? Ray At 09:41 8/07/1999 +1000, you wrote: Hello, I have Cisco AS5200's, Bay 5399's and Lucent PM3 Access servers. I've found Lucent to be the best with modem code and performance. Some may disagree I'm not interested in an argument I own these three brands and I'm going on my personal experience dialling into them and from customer support calls. Others, I can't really compare. I don't trust anyone who has only used one type of access server and happens to say their one is the best, it could well be the best however how have they compared their one to others? Order of my personal preference: 1. Lucent 2. Cisco 3. Bay BTW: None are perfect, I can find modems that will not connect to each one of these, but between the 3 brands and some modem tweaking I can get nearly all clients online, if I can't their modem is usually stuffed or will only connect to analog access servers (Usually a V.FC modem). Regards, Leigh Spiegel Senior Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] WinShop Services PH: (07) 5532 0355 FAX: (07) 5531 4846 http://www.winshop.com.au/ === Archive at http://www.thesite.com.au/~radiator/ To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message. === Archive at http://www.thesite.com.au/~radiator/ To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message.
RE: (RADIATOR) Best NAS my opinion
That Bay stuff has got to be crap :) I don't need to drive my car into a tree to imagine what would happen to me :) Whilst this is getting off-topic, Leigh did not mention the version of modem code (shown by 'modem -v') or boot code (shown by 'stats') he was running on the Bay 5399s. Upgrading to either X15.1.7 or X16.0.1 and using version 49 modem code (available in X16.0.1) alleviates many modem connection issues. There is far more to a NAS than the hardware or a model number. (And just to be on topic, upgrading from R16.0 to X16.0.1 will fix a bug whereby Stop records were missing the Connect-Info, Annex-Transmit-Speed and Annex-Receive-Speed attributes for analog calls.) Regards, Andrew. === Archive at http://www.thesite.com.au/~radiator/ To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message.
Re: (RADIATOR) Best NAS my opinion
Mike McCauley wrote: BTW anyone know of a good Cisco mailling list? [EMAIL PROTECTED] :) This list is dead. Now is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe information and archives in http://cisco-nas.datasys.net Aaron Leonard and Dennis Peng from Cisco are in the list. They are true Remote Access gurus. Félix __ DATAGRAMA SERVICIOS GLOBALES IP C/ Acer 30 Pho: +34 93 223 00 98 08038 Barcelona ( SPAIN )Fax: +34 93 223 12 66 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.datagrama.net __ ÿ Archive at http://www.thesite.com.au/~radiator/ To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message.
Re: (RADIATOR) Best NAS my opinion
BTW anyone know of a good Cisco mailling list? [EMAIL PROTECTED] :) That list is defunct. There is a new one for NAS at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chris - IRI [Internet Research Institute,Inc.] Naoto MATSUMOTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---End of forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mike McCauley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open System Consultants Pty. LtdUnix, Perl, Motif, C++, WWW 24 Bateman St Hampton, VIC 3188 Australia http://www.open.com.au Phone +61 3 9598-0985 Fax +61 3 9598-0955 Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server anywhere. SQL, proxy, DBM, files, LDAP, NIS+, password, NT, Emerald, Platypus, Freeside, TACACS+, PAM, external, etc etc on Unix, Win95/8, NT, Rhapsody === Archive at http://www.thesite.com.au/~radiator/ To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message. === Archive at http://www.thesite.com.au/~radiator/ To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message.
Re: (RADIATOR) Best NAS my opinion
I've found Lucent to be the best with modem code and performance. Some may disagree I'm not interested in an argument I own these three brands and I'm going on my personal experience dialling into them and from customer support calls. Need to be more specific. Ciscos with MICA, or Cisco's with Microcom? The Microcom stuff kicks serious butt over Lucent modem code in my use. I'm willing to believe that you see different results downunder than you get in the US. In the US, on a "standard" 5ess switch, Lucent modem code sucks like a vacuum compared to Cisco/mcom :) I think the PM3 is faster throughput, but I don't have customers calling to complain about throughput being 2% slower, but they sure do like to call when they can't connect. That Bay stuff has got to be crap :) I don't need to drive my car into a tree to imagine what would happen to me :) Chris Others, I can't really compare. I don't trust anyone who has only used one type of access server and happens to say their one is the best, it could well be the best however how have they compared their one to others? Order of my personal preference: 1. Lucent 2. Cisco 3. Bay BTW: None are perfect, I can find modems that will not connect to each one of these, but between the 3 brands and some modem tweaking I can get nearly all clients online, if I can't their modem is usually stuffed or will only connect to analog access servers (Usually a V.FC modem). Regards, Leigh Spiegel === Archive at http://www.thesite.com.au/~radiator/ To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message.
RE: (RADIATOR) Best NAS my opinion
Hello, Need to be more specific. Ciscos with MICA, or Cisco's with Microcom? The Microcom stuff kicks serious butt over Lucent modem code in my use. Our Ciscos have Microcom modems. I'm willing to believe that you see different results downunder than you get in the US. In the US, on a "standard" 5ess switch, Lucent modem code sucks like a vacuum compared to Cisco/mcom :) I think the PM3 is faster throughput, but I don't have customers calling to complain about throughput being 2% slower, but they sure do like to call when they can't connect. Could also be different when running 60 channels on the Cisco box compared with 48. I find the 5200 a fair bit slower. I don't have accurate figures on it, but my transfer rate Cisco vs Lucent is generally 0.5k/s -- 1.0k/s faster on a Lucent. A Cisco really starts to slow down when it has over 55 clients on the NAS. The 5300 I've heard is much better. Regards, Leigh Spiegel Senior Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] WinShop Services PH: (07) 5532 0355 FAX: (07) 5531 4846 http://www.winshop.com.au/ === Archive at http://www.thesite.com.au/~radiator/ To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message.
