It does suck when companies decide to stop supporting perfectly good platforms. I love my 1800 for doing ISDN centrex to business customers on a budget, in fact, at my last job, I had a Pipeline 400 running version 4.6something without a problem, though it would have been nice to have more current code to fix the clock on it :) Anyways, the 3k should do you good, as should the 6k. If you have enough ports to justify it, you might want to take a look at the TNT or APX. I myself can't wait to get my hands on the APX (gotta wait until I get up to about 15 PRI, then switch everything to DS3). G'luck with your upgrades, -- Troy Settle Pulaski Networks 540.994.4254 It's always a long day, 86400 doesn't fit into a short ** -----Original Message----- ** From: Edwin_Everett at cargill.com [mailto:Edwin_Everett at cargill.com] ** Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 8:34 PM ** To: ascend-users at max.bungi.com; troy at psknet.com ** Subject: RE: (ASCEND) Max 3000 ** ** ** Hows this.....it was set to Rich Text.....sorry ** ** We need the 8+ because we have received the NavisAccess code 5.0 and ** were hoping it would fix some of our management and reporting problems ** with earlier versions but it does not support anything earlier than 8.0 ** (because of the MIB structure changes I guess) ** ** Reporting in the earlier version of NA did not scale to the level we ** needed for scheduled reports...(business units want to know) and 58 ** machines running two to three reports each was too much for the ** program... ** ** The other reason to get off the 1800s and 2000s was based on the ** reluctance of Lucent to continue producing code updates for the ** models....I was waiting for enhanced security for admin/helpdesk ** support (released in 8+) pseudo banner elimination in 8+, bugs in the ** modems when using outbound modem pooling..... ** ** -----Original Message----- ** From: troy at psknet.com [mailto:troy at psknet.com] ** Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 5:30 PM ** To: everett, edwin /hdqt; ascend-users at max.bungi.com ** Subject: RE: (ASCEND) Max 3000 ** ** ** ** Edwin, ** ** You may want to consider getting away from whatever mail client you're ** using, or at least configure it to send mail in plain text format. Most ** folks on most lists would appreciate it. ** ** About the max 3000. I've no direct experience, but it's probably as ** solid ** as the rest of the Ascend line. It has the 100Mbit ethernet port, ** which I ** would imagine is as buggy as the 6000 chassis. It works, but in my ** experience, it doesn't like some hubs and switches. Works great with my ** cisco stuff though. ** ** As for getting up to the 8.x code. Why? i'm still at 7.0.26, and my ** maxes ** work flawlessly. ** ** ** -- ** Troy Settle ** Pulaski Networks ** 540.994.4254 ** ** It's always a long day, 86400 doesn't fit into a short ** ** ** > -----Original Message----- ** > From: owner-ascend-users at max.bungi.com ** > [mailto:owner-ascend-users at max.bungi.com] On Behalf Of ** > Edwin_Everett at cargill.com ** > Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 5:08 PM ** > To: ascend-users at max.bungi.com ** > Cc: ascend at saffron.colloquium.co.uk ** > Subject: (ASCEND) Max 3000 ** > ** > << File: BDY.RTF >> << File: BDY.RTF >> ** ** ++ 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>