Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!paperboy!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!santra!santra!kla From: kla@kampi.hut.fi (Kimmo Laaksonen) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco Subject: Get 8.2(2) for STS-10x's Message-ID: Date: 25 Mar 91 09:51:16 GMT Sender: news@santra.uucp (Cnews - USENET news system) Distribution: comp Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 30 We got a bunch (4) of STS-10x's early this year. They were our first cisco terminal servers. Initially I couldn't get any reasonable configuration on them. (We need modem control (RI-is-CD) and autobaud because all lines come through a terminal exchange (port selector).) That turned out to be because of a buggy version 8.1 software in the ROMs. The local cisco rep here supplied us quickly with new ROMs 8.2(1), and for a while things looked brighter. However, I started receiving weird complaints from our users, like character structure is no parity, 7 DATABITS, 1 stop on some line. To my astonishment this turned out to be true. Also I ran into memory exhaustion: if I said 'show conf' or 'write term', the server would respond with "No memory available" or something like that. Rebooting the server set the configuration back to normal again, but soon (in a few days) memory would be exhausted again. I FTP'd the new version 8.2(2) from ftp.cisco.com, netbooted that on the servers, and now they've been running smoothly for a couple of weeks. Although I've seen memory exhaustion again, but it seems to have vanished later automagically. The release notes mention two bug fixes in 8.2(2) pertaining to our problems: lines not getting reset to default configuration after exit (maybe somebody played with parity & databits on that line with 7 databits), and memory management problems (in STS-10x's). Anyway, if you're having problems with 8.2(1), I suggest you get 8.2(2) and try that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kimmo Laaksonen Internet: kla@hut.fi Helsinki University of Technology uucp: ..!mcsun!tut!santra!kla Computing Centre BITNET: KLA@FINGATE Otakaari 1, SF-02150 Espoo, Finland phone: int'l 358 0 451 4308