Hi-
I've got a SBE t1 card deployed in a powerouter and it is working great; very stable, good throughput, etc. I had to downgrade the routeros to 2.9.51 to get the T1 card working, though. So, I lost the benefit of the dual-core processor. So, I was wondering if anyone is aware of a T1 card that is supported under 3.11 or is there a driver that I can upgrade to get the existing card working under 3.11. I'm currently not seeing a huge strain on processor load, however, I do see spikes occassionally and I would like to be able to take full advantage of the hardware at my disposal.


Thanks,

Craig

we have those sbe t1 cards in a 3.x box and they are working. they were upgrades from 2.9 however. maybe the synchronous package didnt get loaded ?

No, the synchronous package was definitely loaded. Do you have a multi-core processor in the same box? Before I downgraded, I tried disabling the multi-core processor and running in single processor mode. Whenever I enabled the t1 card it would de-stabilize the router and I would have to reboot. I was never able to get it to establish link with the T1 either. Once I downgraded, it came up immediately after tweaking the settings.

I'd like to gain back my dual-processor capability because I am running a fairly complicated firewall rule set with several WAN links, mangle rules, and conditional routing. As the traffic increases (the client is out of season right now) I am concerned that I might start hitting processor limits. Currently it is running at about 5% steady load with spikes to as high as 40% on a fairly regular basis.

Which version of 3.x are you running? Maybe 3.11 wasn't stable for that card, maybe an earlier revision might work for me.

Thanks,

Craig