USR Total Control Modem Rack

[Crossbow]

I recently purchased a used USR total control modem rack with 12 Quad Modem cards, 1 T1 card, redundent PS modules, and one NMC / NIC interface module. The problem is that I can not communicate with the NMC in any shape or form and would like some advice.

I checked my Bay Networks managed switch that the NIC plugs into for a MAC address on startup but there was none for the total control rack. I can tell that it is recieving broadcasts on that port but the rack is not transmitting anything back to the switch. The NMC passes the POST and I get a 10BaseT connection (layer 1) on the switch, but that is about it. I don't believe it is getting any layer 2 or higher information back out of it.

Soooo.. My thoughts are that the NIC is bad, but could it be a switch setting on the Management module that could do this? or something else?

 

[am1ll3r]

Crossbow,

Have you programmed the NMC through the console connection on the card? If not
you will need to use a null modem adaptor going to the top port on the NMC back card. Use hyper terminal or something like that set to (9600 8 N 1) and it will bring up a menu and you can set your options from there.The first menu has 3 options ...use the first option . From there you will need to set the LAN IP address and mask the gateway and make sure you save it . You may then need to power cycle it before it starts to work correct.

 

[Crossbow]

I tried with the null modem cable, but the connection isnt a standard one like Cisco's etc.. so I had to make one up based on some info I got at another site. I still have yet to get ANY conversation out of it. I had to replace the NIC in the back with another one because it wouldn't even return the MAC address. I then was able to get a MAC back (read it from my switch port), but then it still didn't communicate at all. I then bought another NMC to see if that would do it.. still nothing. Perhaps the data on the rs232 port on the NIC is wrong.. dunno. I have yet to get it to communicate.