Kevin, I missed the first part of this thread, and don't know if you're talking about a cisco connecting to an Ascend, or vis-versa, but here's the dialer config from my router at home (Cisco 804) which is connected to a Max 1800. interface Dialer1 ip address negotiated no ip directed-broadcast no ip proxy-arp encapsulation ppp no ip split-horizon dialer remote-name isdn-02.rad dialer idle-timeout 2147483 dialer string 4908 dialer string 4909 dialer hold-queue 10 dialer load-threshold 1 either dialer pool 1 dialer-group 1 pulse-time 0 ppp pap sent-username troy password 7 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ppp multilink This cisco has been connected without issue (except power outages) for over a year and a half. Hope this helps you. -- 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 ** ascend at saffron.colloquium.co.uk ** Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 7:18 AM ** To: ascend-users at bungi.com ** Subject: (ASCEND) Re: Ascend and a Cisco ** ** ** Hi; ** ** Thanks for your suggestion, Craig - unfortunately, this fix ** didn't work out ** for us. We found that both channels could be brought up, but, as before, ** after a certain amount of time, the link went dead, even though the lines ** stayed up. Even before it reached this point, the connection ** was very slow ** and unreliable - when we pinged their IP address from the Ascend ** they were ** connected to, we typically only got every other packet back, at best. ** ** It seems that something is fundamentally going wrong when we ** switch to dual ** channel. A PPP connection works fine, but whenever we set ppp ** on the Cisco ** to multilink, causing them to negotiate an MPP connection on the Ascend, ** that's when the trouble begins, with very poor network performance, and ** eventual deterioration to the point of no throughput. ** ** Once again, thanks for the suggestion - can you (or anyone else ** on the list) ** think of any other possible cause for this problem, or something ** else we can ** try to fix it ? ** ** Cheers; ** Kevin Drysdale, Colloquium Internet Technical Support. ** ++ 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> ** ** ++ 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>