luke johnson wrote: (written on 10/27/00 at 05:40) ] ]We have a couple of TNT's which are producing the message below. Upon ]looking at the suspect modem list I found that it contained close to 200 ]modems!! we only have 480 installed... I'm aware that 3 failed auth ]attempts will put the modem on the suspect list, however, it seems a bit ]excessive. (there are no modems on the failed list). We are running ]version 7.2.3, and are considering updating to ver 8.0.3, as I believe the ]TNT will only put the modems on a suspect list if they fail 8 time instead ]of three. ] ]Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions as to why we may be seeing so many ]modems put onto the suspect list? What usage do you generally have on your TNT? How long has it been since you last cleared/checked the modems on the suspect list? Remember, once a modem gets put on the suspect list, it will not get tried again unless all other modems are already in use...and the only way it will ever get moved off of the suspect list is by having a successful call. If you have 200 modems sitting on your suspect list, but can still handle all of your traffic with your remaining 280 modems, the suspect modems will never be given a chance to redeem themselves. If you see an entire modem card listed on the suspect list, then there's a good chance that card is 'bad'. One gripe that I've always had is that I have never been able to 'manually' move a modem off of the suspect list, without resetting the entire modem card (slot -d, slot -r, etc). ___________________________________________________________________________ Joe Pautler, E.I.T. University at Buffalo CIT/OSS Network Engineering 224 Computing Center http://www.oss.buffalo.edu/~pautler (716) 645-3536 ++ 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>