Subject: RE: (usr-tc) NetServer 3.8.1 not Y2K Compliant

From: "Stainforth, Matthew" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 17:01:29 +0000

mine all seem to be working fine with NTP...

Command> sho time
January 7, 2000  14:56:46 UT
Command> ver
U.S. Robotics
Total Control (tm) NETServer Card V.34/ISDN with Frame Relay V3.8.1
  Build date: Aug 11 1998
  Build time: 13:49:21

  Network Interface Card: Ethernet & Frame Relay Combination (26)
  ISDN Interface Card   : MUNICH32 (4)
  Packet Bus Circuit    : Enhanced

Matthew Stainforth  ||  Technical Services Manager ||  BrunNet Inc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Benton [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 10:29 AM
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: (usr-tc) NetServer 3.8.1 not Y2K Compliant
> 
> 
> The NetServer 3.8.1 code running on two of our tc's is not 
> Y2K Compliant.
> It's running NTP to accept the time from our time servers and 
> shows the
> date to be incorrectly something with the year of 1900.  Our 
> HARC's are
> doing just fine via NTP.  Want to find out if your netserver 
> is reporting
> the date correctly?  From the Command> prompt, type show time 
> then Enter.
> 
> Due to this fact, I would strongly suggest that 3Com 1) fix 
> this problem
> in NTP on the NSC 3.8.1 code, 2) implement a way to set the date and
> time from the CLI on the NSC, and 3) remove the YES next to 
> the NetServer
> PRI 3.8.1 Y2K Compliance check statement until it's fixed.  
> Both of these
> would require new code for the NetServer.  The 3Com case 
> number for this
> problem is 154529.
> 
> Kevin Benton
> Network Administrator
> SOTANet LLC, A Voyager.net Company
> 
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