RE: Problems with a PA-POS card

From: Martin, Christian (cmartin@gnilink.net)
Date: Thu Oct 19 2000 - 14:35:59 EDT


It may be the card at the far end that is transmitting to you that is the
problem. Bad fiber, bad connectors, flaky ports, mismatched mode,
overpowered lasers, etc.

chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Gibbs [mailto:gibbs@servint.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:25 PM
> To: Martin, Christian
> Cc: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
> Subject: RE: Problems with a PA-POS card
>
>
>
> I am being told by the telco its my card thats causing the
> alarm in its
> router, and I need to replace the router/card, which doesn't
> seem right.
>
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Martin, Christian wrote:
>
> > Mike,
> >
> > You are getting a high number of BIP3 errors. This is
> generally caused by
> > bad transmit at the far end, or a problem in the carrier network.
> >
> > Regards,
> > chris
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Mike Gibbs [mailto:gibbs@servint.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 10:30 AM
> > > To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
> > > Subject: Problems with a PA-POS card
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > What would cause these errors? I assumed it was light
> > > intensity too high,
> > > since the telco sent us -12.2 dBm so we built it out to -23
> > > dBm and are
> > > getting the same errors.
> > >
> > >
> > > *Oct 18 17:32:38: %SONET-4-ALARM: POS8/0/0: B3 BER exceeds
> > > threshold, TC alarm declared
> > > *Oct 18 17:32:48: %SONET-4-ALARM: POS8/0/0: B3 BER below
> > > threshold, TC alarm cleared
> > > *Oct 18 17:40:46: %SONET-4-ALARM: POS8/0/0: B3 BER exceeds
> > > threshold, TC alarm declared
> > > *Oct 18 17:40:56: %SONET-4-ALARM: POS8/0/0: B3 BER below
> > > threshold, TC alarm cleared
> > > *Oct 18 17:46:48: %SONET-4-ALARM: POS8/0/0: B3 BER exceeds
> > > threshold, TC alarm declared
> > > *Oct 18 17:46:58: %SONET-4-ALARM: POS8/0/0: B3 BER below
> > > threshold, TC alarm cleared
> > > *Oct 18 18:04:09: %SONET-4-ALARM: POS8/0/0: B3 BER exceeds
> > > threshold, TC alarm declared
> > >
> > >
> > > Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
> > > IOS (tm) RSP Software (RSP-K3PV-M), Version 12.0(9)S,
> EARLY DEPLOYMENT
> > > RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
> > > Copyright (c) 1986-2000 by cisco Systems, Inc.
> > > Compiled Fri 04-Feb-00 20:18 by htseng
> > > Image text-base: 0x60010908, data-base: 0x60D2E000
> > >
> > > ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 11.1(8)CA1, EARLY
> DEPLOYMENT RELEASE
> > > SOFTWARE (fc1)
> > > BOOTFLASH: GS Software (RSP-BOOT-M), Version 11.1(22)CA,
> > > EARLY DEPLOYMENT
> > > RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
> > >
> > > Telephonica uptime is 1 week, 1 day, 20 hours, 1 minute
> > > System returned to ROM by reload
> > > System image file is "slot0:rsp-k3pv-mz_120-9_S.bin"
> > >
> > > cisco RSP4 (R5000) processor with 262144K/2072K bytes of memory.
> > > R5000 CPU at 200Mhz, Implementation 35, Rev 2.1, 512KB L2 Cache
> > > Last reset from power-on
> > > G.703/E1 software, Version 1.0.
> > > G.703/JT2 software, Version 1.0.
> > > X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.
> > > Chassis Interface.
> > > 1 GEIP controller (1 GigabitEthernet).
> > > 1 VIP2 R5K controller (1 POS).
> > > 1 GigabitEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
> > > 1 Packet over SONET network interface(s)
> > > 123K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
> > >
> > > Mike Gibbs
> > >
> >
>
> Mike Gibbs
>



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