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From: Nigel Roles ngr@sym...
Subject: ISDN
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 15:16:47 +0100

Nice though they are, a Pipeline 50 is a bit too expensive for my 
home network. In fact the Pipeline 25-Px is too pricey, but a really 
neat product.

> >Two cautions: when I last tried it, about a year ago, an Ascend
> >Pipeline 50 talking to a Combinet CB-900 PRI interface got
> >IL checksum errors that do not appear when both ends are Combinet
> >boxes.  I think it's a bug in Van-Jacobson header compression.
> >Also, a Pipeline 50 talking to a CB-900 reproducibly but gradually
> >corrupted and crashed the CB-900.  Both of these bugs could be
> >fixed by now; the local ISDN support folks haven't encouraged me
> >to find out. :-)
> 
> Might want to grab the latest P50 binaries from Ascend.
> I'll probably do same during Christmas.
> 

Nigel Roles