A
router made by
Ascend in the pre-
Lucent days. It features
ISDN BRI and
serial WAN interfaces. Fairly reliable and easy to use, with it's
menu oriented user interface. With recent
firmware, it could handle
NAT,
DHCP,
Frame Relay,
IPX/SPX, some
bridging,
Appletalk, and other stuff I can't even remember.
One of the funny things about it is that it's mainboard is actually an Ascend P50 (an
ISDN router). They even used to mention this on the
website. If you ever update the firmware, you'll notice the prompt says "pipe50>". They just added on a daughtercard for the serial capability.
They would, every half year or so, lock up under my
company's traffic. And after bouncing the power, you'd usually have to
unplug the serial connection and plug it back in. Wierd.
No one I know has ever worked with the things. I always had a hell of a time trying to get support for the things in the field and usually get stuck doing everything myself.