Picks and Pans

Ever set up a SOHO ISDN router? Whoo boy. Fasten your seat belts.
I have done it with several products and I must say the vendors have
sure gone out of there way to make it impossible.

Here's a great diagnostic:

	(516,1520650) c021: Automaton Layer Started

For the un-hip, "c021" is PPP LCP, or link control protocol. It's
documented in an RFC, which I'm sure most people have on-line. Not.
How about "Call connected. Starting PPP". Gosh, wouldn't that
be a nice message.

The box in question does not even tell you when the PPP negotiation
fails. No, that would be far to easy. I think you should have
to dive into the trace buffers to bring any product up.

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Have I ranted about my cable modem recently? It's a really odd world
when I have more bandwidth and better connectivity at home then at
work. Well, I do. I love my cable modem. Everyone should have a T1
at home. I can watch the MBONE sessions, I can down load files. I
can even work from home. It's great. Continental
Cablevision (a.k.a. MediaOne) has done a fine job so far. The first
3 months have been great. We'll see what happens as they ramp up, but
so far it's a huge win for $50/month. (but now I want a T3 :-)

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