[c-nsp] 837 strangeness

[David Prall]

Jon,
The 800 Series requires that DSL Firmware be upgraded, where as all others
have it stuck in the IOS image. I've never directly dealt with this myself.

http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/800

David

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net 
> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jon Lewis
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:24 PM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [c-nsp] 837 strangeness
> 
> I don't know if this is nsp material...but since there's no cisco-cpe 
> list....
> 
> I've got this 837 (actually, we've got a couple of them) that 
> I'm trying 
> to configure to take the place of other working DSL routers 
> (zyxels, cisco 
> 827s, etc.).  The 837 doesn't seem to recognize the DSL line 
> (atm0 never 
> comes up) and whether the line is plugged in or not, once the 837 has 
> finished booting, the DSL TXD and RXD lights strobe continuously, 
> apparently indefinitely.  That's great if you like 
> 'blinkenlights', but 
> not so good if you want a servicable DSL router.  If it were 
> happening 
> with just one 837, I'd write it off to a bad router...but we 
> have a couple 
> of them doing this.  Are they all bad?
> 
> I've tried several different recent IOS versions so I really 
> don't think 
> it's a software bug.
> 
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