[cisco-nas] AS5350 Connection Problems

John McKinney johnm at wnconline.net
Wed Jun 9 00:04:27 EDT 2004


On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Melvin C. Etheridge wrote:
Mel,
	This was a long time ago. I'm not sure I remember all the details.

> 
> John,
> 
> What did you do to resolve this issue?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mel
> [cisco-nas] AS5350 Connection Problems
> John McKinney johnm at wnconline.net
> Tue Sep 9 02:34:20 EDT 2003
> 
> 
> 	I experienced the same problem again tonight, from my login.
> Everyone else is assigned an IP from the pool, but I use an assigned IP.


I have not resolved this issue. If I assign a static IP through radius, 
the cisco will assign the IP, but the session dies. But I suspect this is 
a config issue and not related to the problems mentioned on the list.


> > > > > 	Another user called in this morning with this problem. Luckily
> > > > > they had 2 lines, so I was able to do a little troubleshooting. The
> called
> > > > > looked normal. It showed V.34 and V.92. Connection speeds were
> > > > > 26000/24000. I had the user disconnect and enter 'AT+MS=v90,0. They
> > > > > reconnected and this time it was a V.34 call and everything worked
> fine.
> > > > > So, does this mean that the problem is a V.92 problem? Any
> suggestions on
> > > > > how to maintain the V.92 calls and resolve the problem?
> > > >


This was the main issue. Certain V.92 modems either would not connect or 
would connect but not pass any data. I disabled V.92 on our end and the 
problem went away. This was only a temp. fix. I believe we tried 3 
different IOS versions around this time and it didn't seem to help. I 
contacted CCO and they provided an SPE update. After updating it, the 
problem went away. The customers quit complaining. I know dell and gateway 
both have issued driver updates and this also seems to help. I have no 
idea what (if anything) was different with the modem code, but after 
updating the SPE code the customers quit complaining. We still get a few 
complaints, but its very few (less than we had with our PM3 boxes). We 
will still have to turn off V.92 on the customer end, but not very often. 
Mostly on a V.92 connection, but the call slows to 28800. We can turn off 
the V.92 and customer seems to get better performance. Maybe the customer 
modem is a little to aggressive and can't maintain the call?

>From memory, we have experienced problems with:

bcm
gtw
motorola (can't recall the model)

>From memory, we have very good success with:

Zoom (3025 series)
HP LT win modems

I still think we have to many missed connections (customer redials), but 
we get very few complaints. Here are some numbers.


## start numbers
as-1 uptime is 21 weeks, 2 days, 17 hours, 57 minutes

         Avg Hold     Inc calls     Out calls    Failed    No      Succ
SPE        Time      Succ   Fail   Succ   Fail   Dial    Answer    Pct
1/00     00:42:36   16256   1121      0      0       0       0     94%
1/01     00:42:40   16232   1102      0      0       0       0     94%
1/02     00:41:41   16507   1130      0      0       0       0     94%
1/03     00:41:39   16487   1130      0      0       0       0     94%
1/04     00:42:26   16253   1081      0      0       0       0     94%
1/05     00:42:14   16348   1066      0      0       0       0     94%
1/06     00:43:06   16001   1112      0      0       0       0     94%
1/07     00:42:39   16212   1120      0      0       0       0     94%
1/08     00:41:56   16374   1138      0      0       0       0     94%
1/09     00:41:09   16637   1155      0      0       0       0     94%
## end numbers

Here is some of my config if it helps. I don't recall all the features for 
the modemcap, but maybe Aaron (or anyone else) can explain it.

## start config
boot system flash c5350-is-mz.122-2.XB15.bin

spe 1/00 1/09
 firmware location flash:128.0.1.92.spe

modemcap entry cisco:MSC=&FS62=8S63=3S29=12S21=15
## end config

Heres a list of current calls. Pay attention to the Compression. When 
the sessions would die, they were using V.44 compression. (Turn off in 
your modemcap and I bet your problem goes away)

## Current Calls - w/o Retrain
SPE 1/00
Port  Type     Prot     Comp    Duration  Tx/Rx(bps) Tx/Rx(Lvl) SNR Cfg  
2     V.34     LAP-M    V.42bis  7546    26400/26400- 12/-24     38  In   
4     V.34+    LAP-M    V.44     1288    31200/21600- 13/-21     38  In   
5     V.90     LAP-M    V.42bis  6850    42667/24000- 12/-15     40  In   

SPE 1/01
Port  Type     Prot     Comp    Duration  Tx/Rx(bps) Tx/Rx(Lvl) SNR Cfg  
6     V.90     LAP-M    V.42bis  4032    46667/24000- 12/-16     33  In   
7     V.90     LAP-M    V.42bis  3609    44000/26400- 12/-17     38  In   
8     V.90/92  LAP-M    V.44     3326    36000/26400- 12/-16     38  In   
9     V.90     LAP-M    V.42bis  63      45333/28800- 12/-12     38  In   
10    V.34/92  LAP-M    V.44     8451    26400/24000- 13/-13     33  In   
11    V.34     LAP-M    V.42bis  4650    26400/24000- 13/-20     38  In   

SPE 1/02
Port  Type     Prot     Comp    Duration  Tx/Rx(bps) Tx/Rx(Lvl) SNR Cfg  
14    V.34     LAP-M    V.42bis  1449    26400/24000- 13/-20     33  In   
15    V.90     LAP-M    V.42bis  4448    45333/31200- 12/-14     40  In   
17    V.34     LAP-M    V.44     3520    28800/26400- 13/-19     38  In   

SPE 1/03
Port  Type     Prot     Comp    Duration  Tx/Rx(bps) Tx/Rx(Lvl) SNR Cfg  
19    V.90/92  LAP-M    V.44     16236   46667/26400- 12/-19     40  In   
20    V.90     LAP-M    V.42bis  1352    50667/26400- 12/-12     42  In   
23    V.34/92  LAP-M    V.44     6761    21600/21600- 13/-21     33  In   

SPE 1/04
Port  Type     Prot     Comp    Duration  Tx/Rx(bps) Tx/Rx(Lvl) SNR Cfg  
25    V.34     LAP-M    V.42bis  1650    28800/24000- 13/-19     38  In   
29    V.90     LAP-M    V.42bis  3304    52000/28800- 12/-10     40  In   

SPE 1/05
Port  Type     Prot     Comp    Duration  Tx/Rx(bps) Tx/Rx(Lvl) SNR Cfg  
30    V.90     LAP-M    V.42bis  3248    38667/26400- 12/-16     38  In   
31    V.90     LAP-M    V.42bis  4976    41333/24000- 12/-18     37  In   
32    V.90/92  LAP-M    V.44     799     36000/26400- 12/-16      0  In   

SPE 1/06
Port  Type     Prot     Comp    Duration  Tx/Rx(bps) Tx/Rx(Lvl) SNR Cfg  
37    V.90/92  LAP-M    V.44     2086    46667/26400- 12/-15      0  In   
38    V.34     LAP-M    V.42bis  11552   26400/24000- 13/-19     33  In   
40    V.90     LAP-M    None     4757    46667/28800- 12/-11     40  In   
41    V.34     LAP-M    V.42bis  296     21600/26400- 13/-19     38  In   
##  end current calls

Did you notice port 29? Wish everyone could connection that fast!

Feel free to reply. All feedback is welcome.

-- 
Thank You,
John McKinney
WNC ONLINE



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