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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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My Ascend Pipeline 50 has been giving headaches lately . 

1. It seems that heavy UDP traffic seems to clobber Ascend routers.
   For instance, mbone traffic . The problem was reported to Ascend and it
   looks like that they are having buffer management problems . The problem
   has been alleviated with the latest software release however it is still
   there with less frequency.

2. On my Ascend Pipeline 50 if I connect a second machine to my network it
   kills my Ascend Pipeline 50 . I have the single user license model however
   it should route my packets given that I am talking to the router via 
   one ethernet interface. About a year ago , I asked Ascend if this would
   work and they said "Yes".

Overall, it is a good router and has serve me well for over a year.
I am waiting for Whistle.com to release their FreeBSD router which in my
opinion is a more suitable router at least for my environment since
it can handle mail / ftp / http , etc...

	Regards,
	Amancio

>From The Desk Of "Jon Doran" :
> I recommend the Ascend Pipeline 25, for about $1000 you can get one with
> IP routing.  Not only does it support a boatload of switch types, but there
> are no software changes to make.  Plug it into a hub and your entire network
> has access to the remote network.
> 
> I've been doing this for about a year now with no headaches.
> 
> Jon Doran
>