Title: | atm |
Moderator: | NPSS::WATERS |
Created: | Mon Oct 05 1992 |
Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
Number of topics: | 970 |
Total number of notes: | 3630 |
Dear all, Our customer has GIGAswitch/ATM and Xylan OmniSwitch-9. They bought OmniSwitch from Xylan reseller here. Now they have problems in connecting the OmniSwitch to GIGAswitch. Xylan's reseller engineer describe the problem as: "LANE connection has experienced failure when the LEC on Omni-9 can not reestablish link to LES/BUS services in the GIGAswitch". The engineer has requested us to do one of the following steps to solve the problem: - set the Do_Keep_Alive flag to zero (0) - upgrade the firmware to 2.11a My questions: - Do we have the same problem with DECswitch 400? - Could someone please explain what is the Do_Keep_Alive flag? (I can not find it in manuals) ... and how can set its value? - I know firmware version 2.11, but never hear 2.11a. Is it the same as 2.11? best regards ivan sorano
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851.1 | GIGAswitch- Omni-9 issues | NPSS::RENDA | Wed Mar 05 1997 09:11 | 14 | |
Ivan, Can you give me some more information about this customer? Perhaps you could send me email. 2.1.1a was built as a debug version to help isolate a problem at one customer site. It has no bug fixes. The steps listed above are part of the instructions given to help isolate this problem, but did not seem to affect it. We are still working with the original site to isolate this problem. It looks like you have another customer seeing similar symptoms, and we would like to get more data. Could you contact me so we can discuss? Sandra Renda Networks Product Support (dtn: 226-6174, 508-486-6174) | |||||
851.2 | NPSS::NEWTON | Thomas Newton | Wed Mar 05 1997 10:18 | 16 | |
The keep-alive flag is a debugging tool, not a customer feature. So I'd expect the manual to say nothing about it. To set it, you type do_keepa = 1 to enable UNI/ILMI keepalive polling and the possibility that if the other node doesn't respond, the GS/ATM will be forced to declare the ILMI dead or do_keepa = 0 to disable UNI/ILMI keepalive polling and pretend that ILMI is just fine Note that the setting is NOT preserved in flash and that the new CLI will prevent customers from accessing it. |