[j-nsp] EX to Cat6500 link?

[William McLendon]

just to close this out -- we were able to get the circuit up and running -- the issue was with how the Ciena gear was configured.  I've never done work on Ciena gear but it had something to do with a "GFP" setting.  Whatever it was set to, they changed it and up popped the circuit and the BGP session.

I did end up using OAM LFM to help figure this out -- when they looped the local interface, LFM came up and I saw myself as a peer as expected -- when he moved the loop to the other end of the Ciena ring (at least if I was understanding correctly that's what they did), LFM did not come up.

Thanks all that replied on and off list with ideas!

Will


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> Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 09:35:21 -0400
> From: William McLendon <wimclend at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [j-nsp] EX to Cat6500 link?
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> all,
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> this is an odd issue i'm having in turning up a new circuit, and hoping for some input / ideas --
> 
> the link between the EX and the Cat6500 is provided by a 3rd party provider (I think via DWDM - Sienna and Infinera gear).  Both the EX and the Cat6500 GigE interfaces are configured as routed interfaces.
> 
> I don't know enough about how DWDM gear operates, but if I set my side to Auto, while the far-side Cat6500 is fixed 1g/full, I successfully complete auto negotiation and negotiate to gig/full.  I don't know how transparent the transport equipment is, if i'm negotiating with their equipment, or something else . . . anyone have any ideas there?  The provider says they're basically just providing light signal transport, and should be auto negotiating with the far side Cat6500 (which i'm clearly not).
> 
> If the far side (Cat6500) sets his side also to Auto, both sides of the links go down.  If we both hard-set to gig/full, we both show link up, but no connectivity occurs.  We have checked and double checked the interface configs and IP reachability should be occurring.  At this time I still believe its something wrong with the transport equipment / configuration of the circuit, but I don't really have a way to prove it right now.  I was thinking about trying Ethernet OAM LFM, and if that comes up then we at least know L2 is working, and that we've clearly overlooked something on the IP side; and if it does not come up, then to me that points to the transport provider (or some very odd software bug somewhere).
> 
> Does anyone have some recommendations on troubleshooting this?  I'm at my wits end trying to bring this circuit online.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Will
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