kla@kampi.hut.fi (Kimmo Laaksonen) (03/25/91)
We got a bunch (4) of STS-10x's early this year. They were our first cisco terminal servers. Initially I couldn't get any reasonable configuration on them. (We need modem control (RI-is-CD) and autobaud because all lines come through a terminal exchange (port selector).) That turned out to be because of a buggy version 8.1 software in the ROMs. The local cisco rep here supplied us quickly with new ROMs 8.2(1), and for a while things looked brighter. However, I started receiving weird complaints from our users, like character structure is no parity, 7 DATABITS, 1 stop on some line. To my astonishment this turned out to be true. Also I ran into memory exhaustion: if I said 'show conf' or 'write term', the server would respond with "No memory available" or something like that. Rebooting the server set the configuration back to normal again, but soon (in a few days) memory would be exhausted again. I FTP'd the new version 8.2(2) from ftp.cisco.com, netbooted that on the servers, and now they've been running smoothly for a couple of weeks. Although I've seen memory exhaustion again, but it seems to have vanished later automagically. The release notes mention two bug fixes in 8.2(2) pertaining to our problems: lines not getting reset to default configuration after exit (maybe somebody played with parity & databits on that line with 7 databits), and memory management problems (in STS-10x's). Anyway, if you're having problems with 8.2(1), I suggest you get 8.2(2) and try that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kimmo Laaksonen Internet: kla@hut.fi Helsinki University of Technology uucp: ..!mcsun!tut!santra!kla Computing Centre BITNET: KLA@FINGATE Otakaari 1, SF-02150 Espoo, Finland phone: int'l 358 0 451 4308
lim@slc6.INS.CWRU.Edu (Hock Koon Lim) (04/03/91)
In article <KLA.91Mar25105116@kampi.hut.fi> kla@kampi.hut.fi (Kimmo Laaksonen) writes: > >I FTP'd the new version 8.2(2) from ftp.cisco.com, netbooted that >on the servers, and now they've been running smoothly for a couple >of weeks. Although I've seen memory exhaustion again, but it seems >to have vanished later automagically. The release notes mention two >bug fixes in 8.2(2) pertaining to our problems: lines not getting reset >to default configuration after exit (maybe somebody played with parity >& databits on that line with 7 databits), and memory management problems >(in STS-10x's). Anyway, if you're having problems with 8.2(1), I suggest >you get 8.2(2) and try that. I would like to know how you ftp the 8.2 version and update your server through netbooted. I understand that software upgrade with eprom exchange will cost me $500. It will take some time get it done. If I can just ftp the image over the net and netbooted the server, it will save me a lot of time. I will be able to stay up-to-date on the software release too. -- Hock-Koon Lim, Information Network services Case Western Reserve University; Cleveland, Ohio, USA 44106 (216) 368-2982 lim@ins.cwru.edu