[f-nsp] Brocade RX-4 to Cisco - Light but no link

Aaron aaron at wholesaleinternet.net
Mon Sep 11 14:08:39 EDT 2017


Light at your side is -11?  What is the other side?  Your receive may be 
okay but what about their receive?  Unless this is a BIDI then you have 
to check both fibers.

Aaron



On 9/11/2017 12:03 PM, Derek Maxwell wrote:
> Hello Franz,
>
> Yes, we have verified speed and auto-negotiate settings on both ends and tried every combination to no avail.
>
> Thank you.
>   
>
> On 9/11/17, 5:21 AM, "foundry-nsp on behalf of Franz Georg Köhler" <foundry-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net on behalf of lists at openunix.de> wrote:
>
>      On Mi, Sep 06, 2017 at 07:53:57 +0000, Derek Maxwell <derek.maxwell at chosentechgroup.com> wrote:
>      >
>      > We have a Brocade/Foundry RX-4 with (2) 24 port fiber cards
>      > (RX-BI-24F) and (2) 24 port copper cards (RX-BI-24C). One of our
>      > transit providers is NTT, with whom we have a single GigE circuit
>      > delivered over single mode fiber. It is a multi-km run, from 800 South
>      > Hope to One Wilshire, then on to 900 North Alameda in LA, but well
>      > within normal LX transceiver range. While we see light (neg 11
>      > received)  in optical monitoring, we cannot get a link to establish.
>      > No combination of auto-negotiate / manual speed settings on our side
>      > or NTT’s has been able to get a link up.
>      
>      When light levels are OK but there is no link this can be because of
>      speed mismatch. Are both sides fixed on the same speed (1000 in this
>      case)?
>      
>      
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