On Nov 17, 2007 8:20 AM, William Chops Westfield wrote: > > On Nov 16, 2007, at 4:04 PM, Nate Duehr wrote: > > > The whole phone crashed? That's odd. > > Indeed. Everyone (?) in cisco has an IP phone on their desk, and > you can be sure that there would be many a flamewar on internal > mailing lists if they were prone to crashing. OTOH, it's been a > while since I've been on a 3-hour conference call. It is odd. I have the CISCO IP phone at work as well and I use the pass-through all day. It has never crashed. > > Were you using the pass-through port on the phone for the Ethernet > > connection to the PC that was running Netmeeting? Maybe the phone > > became a bit overloaded. > > I'm pretty sure the "pass through port" is an off-the-shelf hub > or switch IC; I don't think that the phone CPU becomes involved > in passing through LAN traffic. (caveat: I don't work in the > IP phone or even the VoIP arenas...) > At the day, we were using wireless on the notebooks since it is in a conference room with many people. So we were not using pass through port anyway. And yes SAP (aka Slow And Problematic) is a big headache and delayed the schedule of quite some project by one or two months. But it is not too bad once it is up and running. I was actually doing only two thing over the pass three weeks: checking PCB layout and doing SAP related work. Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist