Router to modem

[katab]

Hi everone ,

I'm traying to connect router 2610 [ (IOS 12.2) with WIC 1T card] to an external modem , but the conn LED off , also i cann't change the WIC to work as async ?

plz help

[skra]

Try the command physical layer async!

[chintan_u]

By default cisco routers are configured for sync mode only, in order to hook up the external modem you can use this command

physical layer-async ( Means you are configuring this

port for async connection)

Regards

Chintan Upadhyay

CCNP

Gujarat State

Country: INDIA

E-mail: chintan_u@yahoo.com

[katab]

Thanks ,

Sorry to answer you late , I was out of the country !

I tried to use phsyical layer-async but the IOS ( 12.0(28a) does not support such command , is it from the IOS or WIC it self ?

Best Regards

[Kevin Dorrell]

I thought the WIC-1T did not support async, but then I found this document:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/modules/ps3129/products_tech_note09186a00800b0859.shtml

The last paragraph is quite cryptic: If your platform supports async, then use the physical-layer async command for async mode. Such an application is useful to connect an external modem to the router. Refer to the document 2 Port Async/Sync WAN Interface Card (WIC-2A/S) for an example. FWIW, I don't really understand that. I wonder what it means about "if your platform supports async"? I would have expected async to be a feature of the WIC, not of the platform. But maybe it is determined by the controller, which would be on he platform.

Here is the document it refers to:

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/107/wic-2as.shtml

But that seems to be for a different WIC: the WIC-2A/S.

My guess is that the WIC-1T does not support async, and that the reference to "platform" in the WIC-1T document actually means the WIC-2A/S. Does anyone know differently?

I just tried setting a WIC-1T in a 2610 with 12.2 to async, and failed to do it:

Hurd#conf t

Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.

Hurd(config)#int s0/0

Hurd(config-if)#phy?

% Unrecognized command

Kevin Dorrell

Luxembourg

[katab]

Hi all,

Kevin thanks , I think you are right the WIC-1T does not support asyn , I will try to ask cisco about it.

Regards ,