[ANSS-netops] experience with K-2's having internal IP interface cards

[Dave Drobeck]

Not much to tell - they work as advertised.  One oddity is that they arrive 
with the "timeout" (essentially packet size) set very small, so you get tons 
of overhead if you don't change that - took awhile before Jon here figured 
that out.   Some of them also use a 10-pin RJ-45-ish connector, which is 
slightly odd.  They're also available in multiport versions of course, and 
some versions do PPP, etc.  Last time I purchased a single-port unit it was 
$125. 
 We've never looked into a correlation between MSS100 hangs and broadcast 
traffic, curious problem.  One thing that was annoying to us about the 
MSS100s is that they're very sensitive to power - and most of the x-former 
supplies that came with them failed on us. 


On Tuesday 22 July 2008 06:49 am, mwithers at memphis.edu wrote:
> Can you tell us more about the digi term servers Dave?  We have mostly
> good luck with the mss100's but ones on domains with lots of broadcast
> traffic tend to hang.  Our solution is (or is about to be) putting
> a router in front of it.
>
> Mitch
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> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Dave Drobeck wrote:
> > Hi Glenn,
> > We have not used them - we have decided that if we're going to have
> > problems we'd rather it be with the external device only.   We've had
> > similar problems - so one thing we have done is switch to mainly Digi
> > term servers - they have been much more reliable than the MSS-100 and
> > operate on 9-30 VDC. Dave
> >
> > On Friday 18 July 2008 05:28 pm, Glenn Biasi wrote:
> >> Hi NetOps,
> >>
> >> Anyone out there have experience with K2's having internal ethernet
> >> cards?  We run K2's and Etna's on MSS-100 serial servers, mostly to good
> >> effect, but sometimes the serial server freezes and requires a site
> >> visit for  power cycle.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Glenn
> >
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