First of all, you will never see these messages in a Max 4000 since the hardware in the Max 4000s were not able to detect these kinds of errors. Secondly, these messages have always been around but the Max 6000 has the hardware to detect and report them. What this means is that in most cases, this is a comestic error and normally you don't need to worry about them. However, sometimes these messages will pop up around a software problem the Max 6000 could be having and you should also see warnings and fatal errors (FEs) at the same time (you'd have to issue the "fat" command to check). If you just see protection violations (with no warnings or FEs), then you would normally not need to worry about it. Lastly, you might want to report this to Lucent support (also provide the exact software version of the Max 6000 so they can decode these messages). They can open up bug reports (if not one already opened on this one) to have engineering turn them off. There are many ways to get this message generated so they need to catch them one by one as they occur. Can anyone tell me what the following means? Protection violation: ind = 00010000 addrType = 00001002 at 00000000 b0370354 b02bdb4c b02c5b14 b02624f0 b02c600c Protection violation: ind = 00010000 addrType = 00001002 at 0000000c b0370590 b02bdb4c b02c5b14 b02624f0 b02c600c Protection violation: ind = 00010000 addrType = 00002002 at 0000000c b0370598 b02bdb4c b02c5b14 b02624f0 b02c600c Protection violation: ind = 00010000 addrType = 00001002 at 00000000 b03705cc b02bdb4c b02c5b14 b02624f0 b02c600c Protection violation: ind = 00010000 addrType = 00001002 at 0000002c b03705f8 b02bdb4c b02c5b14 b02624f0 b02c600c Went into Diag mode of one of our MAX 6096 and was greeted with these violations. Anything to be concerned about? ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request at bungi.com To get FAQ'd: <http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq>