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(PM) Bad Modem

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From: Amir Nazary
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 00:00
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Hey, that's exactly what I thought should be happening too.  But the
telco says that this is not the case, since there are lines still open
in the PRI (which is connected to the bad modems), the switch thinks
that overflow is not required and gives a slow busy out instead. (that
last sentence doesn't make sense to me, i'm starting to confuse myself)

Jake Messinger wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Amir Nazary wrote:
> 
> > When a modem card goes bad, is there any way to busy out the lines so
> > that the lines do not show as idle in the PRI??
> 
> The lines and the individual modems do not need to correspond. Just pull
> the bad card out.
> 
> > the reason is because we started giving out busy signals to our
> > customers even though we had tons of open ports on the overflow PRI's
> 
> Hrm, if there is at least 1 good modem card in the chassis, and ALL of
> those modems get used, the pm 3 should report a busy back to the switch
> and it should tell the switch to roll to the next pri.
> 
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From: Amir Nazary <anazary@staff.portal.ca>
Subject: (PM) Bad Modem
Date: 1998/12/23
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