News:
News:
Ascend has silently upgraded their newest Pipeline50 and 75 units with more
FLASH and DRAM to support future feature sets like AO/DI, etc. So if you
are looking into buying a P50/75, make sure you buy a unit with a serial
number greater than 722XXXX.
See Ascend's FAQ
page about this.
The Ascend Pipeline family of routers are some of the most configurable,
well documented, and best supported ISDN devices in the industry. With
a feature set only matched by Cisco's IOS, the Pipeline family of routers
are VERY powerful.
Check out Ascend's homepage for more detailed info.
- All units come in either a U-interface (with built-in NT1) or an S/T
(non-NT1) version
- A Pipeline 25 family runs on a 16Mhz Motorola 68302 CPU
- Both units support PAP/CHAP authentication
- Both versions have (2) POTs ports that can ring the
equivalent of (3) telephones.
- Older versions of the P25's offered an optional software
modules that now have been discontinued:
- Extra Options
+ P25-HP-COMP: Ascend's proprietary 4:1 STAC compression
+ P25-SO-IP: Ascend's TCP/IP routing software
+ P25-SO-IPX: Ascend's Novell IPX routing software
- The Fx version supports only (1) Ethernet MAC address
- The Px version supports (4)Ethernet MAC address
- Both the Pipeline 50 and 75 supports (75) Ethernet MAC addresses
and run on a 25Mhz Motorola 68360 CPU.
- Both units support PAP/CHAP authentication
- Both the P50 and P75 support both TELNET access and SNMP
management.
- The Pipeline50 does NOT have any POTs ports where the
P75 does have two POTs ports.
- Both units support either RIP or OSPF routing protocols.
- All units prefer 'Classless' or un-numbered WANs though you can assign
IPs to the WAN interfaces in later versions.
- Allows for multiple loadable configurations!
- Allows 'Call Filters': Don't initiate a ISDN call due to a
multicast packet, etc.
- PAP/CHAP login is 16 chars
- PAP/CHAP passwd is 20 chars
- Callback abilities
- supports DHCP spoofing
- Supports a version of IPX client spoofing
- IPX routing feature only supports one frame type at one time
- IP routing (can't support IP and IPX routing simultaneously)
- Supports Ascend proprietary passwd server
Physical Interfaces:
+ power, 9-pin Serial console port, Ethernet AUI, Ethernet
twisted pair (for hub connectivity; cross cable is provided
for direct connection to a computer's Ethernet interface),
dual POTs telephone ports on the P25 and P75, RJ-45 ISDN port.
Configuration:
+ Can use a graphic VT100 interface similar to the Motorola
BitSurfr Pro product or a completely command-line interface.
- The interface is like a menu'ed command line
which prompts the user to fill in the necessary
fields.
+---------- ISV EDIT ----------+ +--------------------+ +--------------------+ ¦Main Edit Menu ¦ ¦10-100 1 ¦ ¦00-200 00:00:03 ¦ ¦ Configure... ¦ ¦ Link D ¦ ¦>M31 Line Ch ¦ ¦ 00-000 System ¦ ¦ B1 - ¦ ¦ Ethernet Up ¦ ¦>20-000 Ethernet ¦ ¦ B2 - ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ 30-000 Serial WAN ¦ +--------------------+ +--------------------+ ¦ ¦ ¦20-100 Sessions ¦ ¦20-500 DYN Stat ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦> 0 Active ¦ ¦ Qual N/A 00:00:00 ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ 0K 0 channels ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ CLU 0% ALU 0% ¦ ¦ ¦ +--------------------+ +--------------------+ ¦ ¦ ¦20-300 WAN Stat ¦ ¦20-400 Ether Stat ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦>Rx Pkt: 0^¦ ¦>Rx Pkt: 8 ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ Tx Pkt: 0 ¦ ¦ Tx Pkt: 9 ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ CRC: 0v¦ ¦ Col: 0 ¦ ¦ ¦ +--------------------+ +--------------------+ ¦ ¦ ¦00-100 Sys Option ¦ ¦00-400 HW Config ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦>Security Prof: 1 ^¦ ¦>BRI Interface ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ Software +4.6Ci28+ ¦ ¦ Adrs: 00c07b5f2178 ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ S/N: 6226488 v¦ ¦ Enet I/F: AUI ¦ Press Ctrl-n to move cursor to the next menu item. Press return to select it. Press Tab to move to another window --- thick border indicates active window.
Check out a complete set of
Pipeline 75 configurations to better see Ascend's user interface.
Last Updated: 2/31/99