It’s been quite a long time since I’ve worked on a Bay Networks Centillion 100 ATM switch but I came across one last week and then today I stumbled upon a few technical documents while cleaning up my home directory (I was scolded for having 6+ GB of data in my home directory).
At on point we had almost 90 Centillion 100 ATM switches deployed across four hospitals with hundreds of Distributed 5000 Hubs. It was amazing how much dust, dirt and heat you could throw at these things and they would just keep on running. The only real downside was that you had to reboot the C100s in order for any significant configuration changes to take effect.
While these documents are very old they might still be helpful to those looking to understand how to deploy and manage an ATM network.
- Troubleshooting ATM on the Centillion 100 Switch
- Troubleshooting ATM on the Backbone Link Node Router
Cheers!
Was? Still is! We have a c100 doing light duty with a couple dozen 10M fiber ports for out of band management, kicked over on its side in the corner. We’re not asking all that much out of it, but the damn thing just refuses to die.
Now the d5000 hubs, on the other hand…
Hi Frank,
It it wasn’t for the need to reboot the switch to add/remove VLANs I suspect we’d probably still be running a few myself. Unfortunately we needed port density that the C100 couldn’t provide so we jumped to the Passport 8600.
I will tell you that I used to run one or two of these in my cubical every winter to keep me warm.
Cheers!
We had some 5000BH’s as well as some 5005’s on top of some c100.
I don’t miss ATM addresses… but had a flashback when we started looking at IPv6…
We quite literally just retired a 5000BH a few months ago. It was still running three 5399 RAC (remote access concentrator) blades. We’ve since moved to a Cisco AS5350 and we’re still working through issues with Cisco TAC.
Those ATM addresses were quite long now that you mention it.
Cheers!