Nope. If it is muxed service, then you should be OK w/ 'clock source line'.
Check the fiber. If the fiber and dB levels are correct, then you may have
POS card issues.
chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Gibbs [mailto:gibbs@servint.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 12:18 PM
> To: Martin, Christian
> Cc: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
> Subject: RE: Problems with a PA-POS card
>
>
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Martin, Christian wrote:
>
> > How is the network designed? Are these intra-pop
> connections (back to back)
> > or through a mux? If they are back to back, then you have
> to set clocking
> > to internal on one (and maybe both) of the cards. In the
> case of both, this
> > is because there are some issues with Cisco POS chips that
> affect clock
> > recovery when the timing source is Cisco generated. Maybe
> they have a
> > Stratum 3.00037 clock??? :)
>
> Bell south is using Stratum 1 bit clocking. That have the
> same problem?
>
> >
> > Check the cards. If you have a T-Berd 310 unit, try
> measuring the transmit
> > and receive from both cards for an extended period to see
> if you are getting
> > timing problems.
> >
> > chris
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Mike Gibbs [mailto:gibbs@servint.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 1:17 PM
> > > To: Martin, Christian
> > > Cc: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
> > > Subject: RE: Problems with a PA-POS card
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Adding to this, all the routers I use, on 2 different
> OC-3 lines are
> > > saying the same thing. IS there a bad batch of OC-3 cards?
> > >
> > > 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
> > >
> >
>
> Mike Gibbs
>
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