[cisco-nas] Disable modems on AS5300?

[Charles Gregory]

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Aaron Leonard wrote:
> Hi Charles,
> You can mark modems bad on an AS5300 in a couple of
> ways ... manually:
> router(config)#line <begin> <end>
> router(config-line)#modem bad

I found this online, and implemented it for a quick fix. 

> or automatically, you can use the "modem recovery" feature

I like the sound of this. I will set it up. Thanks!

- Charles

> to take modems out of service (and/or to reload portware
> into them) if they have too many consecutive trainup failures
> (see http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/76/modem-recovery.html .)
> 
> As far as whether these modems are truly bad (from the hardware
> standpoint) ... this is very rare although not unheard.  Before you
> conclude that these modems are bad, I'd recommend first that you
> load the latest (2.9.5.0) portware on them and see how they do.
> 
> If you need to do further modem hardware troubleshooting, see:
> http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/108/mica-hw-ts-17882.html .
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Aaron
> 
> ---
> 
> Charles Gregory wrote:
> 
> >Hallo!
> >
> >I've got some flakey modems on an AS5300.
> >sho modem indicates 66% connection success rate on 12 modems.
> >
> >I am trying to RTFM, to find the answers to this question, but
> >in the meantime, does anyone know, off the top of their head, how to mark
> >a modem bad? Also, I notice in my sho modem list that 6 modems are
> >*already* marked bad. Is there any way the firmware can do this on its
> >own? Or does this mean I was sold a unit with bad modems in it?
> >
> >Any other recommendations for testing/debugging these modems?
> >Is there a possibility they just need to be 'reset' in some way?
> >Or do I need to be replacing them?
> >
> >Thanks in advance.
> >
> >- Charles
> >
> >Relevant sho modem section......
> >B 1/30  00:23:26     359     18      0      0       0   0  0 95%
> >B 1/31  00:24:18     365     15      0      0       0   0  0 96%
> >B 1/32  00:21:48     366     20      0      0       0   0  0 95%
> >B 1/33  00:26:13     344     13      0      0       0   0  0 96%
> >B 1/34  00:19:13     380     20      0      0       0   0  0 95%
> >B 1/35  00:25:39     349     15      0      0       0   0  0 96%
> >  1/36  00:18:43     351    181      0      0       0   0  0 66%
> >  1/37  00:13:01     404    173      0      0       0   0  0 70%
> >  1/38  00:18:37     339    178      0      0       0   0  0 66%
> >  1/39  00:14:43     371    192      0      0       0   0  0 66%
> >  1/40  00:18:12     359    180      0      0       0   0  0 67%
> >  1/41  00:16:15     375    173      0      0       0   0  0 68%
> >  1/42  00:16:07     362    182      0      0       0   0  0 67%
> >  1/43  00:14:23     395    176      0      0       0   0  0 69%
> >  1/44  00:14:44     383    186      0      0       0   0  0 67%
> >  1/45  00:19:44     344    177      0      0       0   0  1 66%
> >  1/46  00:15:01     388    178      0      0       0   0  0 69%
> >  1/47  00:14:28     373    188      0      0       0   0  0 66%
> >* 2/0   00:28:48     419     25      0      0       0   0  0 94%
> >* 2/1   00:21:38     460     20      0      1       0   0  0 96%
> >
> >
> >
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