I have seen some device, can't remember what, that was unable to pass traffic to the Gig ports on a RB2011 but worked OK on the 10/100 ports.... We have several of these in place as CPE routers and no problem reports yet.
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 5:12 PM, George Skorup (Cyber Broadcasting) via Af < [email protected]> wrote: > Sent a tech to the site and he says... none of the (GigE | FastE) ports > show a link. Power-cycle, fixed. Happened again a couple hours later so we > replaced it. > > The another one, he gets there and says the FastE ports show a link but > there's no traffic. Power-cycle, fixed. That one I don't think we had to > replace. > > Other times, a port or two won't work. Link might come up or not, I don't > remember. I saw this with a brand-new one out of the box. Again, power > cycle = fix. It's really random and stupid. > > Upgraded ROS on a few one time. Couple hours later, two of three crashed. > So now I don't touch them. If one needs to be updated, I load a new one and > just swap it out. > > On 10/17/2014 1:57 PM, Adam Moffett via Af wrote: > > > How did you figure that out? Does it log something about the status of > the switch controller. > > I've had many 2011's appear to crash for no apparent reason. Come to > find out, the switch controllers are what crash from time to time. > Sometimes all of the GigE ports stop working, other times it's the FastE > ports. I'm not a fan of the 2011s at all. > > On 10/17/2014 9:44 AM, Ken Hohhof via Af wrote: > > 6.13/3.14 on an RB2011iL. > > Yeah, likely the customers media converters are not Gig capable, they are > pretty old, it was disconcerting not to be able to talk at 100M or even 10M > though. I’m more worried that it doesn’t seem to talk to a CTM-2 on a GigE > port. And who knows what else. > > *From:* Nate Burke via Af <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Friday, October 17, 2014 9:32 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] some devices won't talk to RB2011 GigE ports? > > What ROS/Routerboard version? Does the customers Media converter > auto-negotiate, or does it only work at 1 speed? It's been a while since > I've used them, but the 1G converters I had were only 1000base on the > Ethernet port, no auto. > > > On 10/17/2014 9:29 AM, Ken Hohhof via Af wrote: > > Yes, in this case the MT interface reported successfully negotiating 100 > Full, but never counted any rcv packets. > > *From:* Adam Moffett via Af <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Friday, October 17, 2014 9:23 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] some devices won't talk to RB2011 GigE ports? > > > Well....autonegotiation failures happen sometimes, but typically those > work ok when you force the speed on the link. In the case I'm thinking of, > we could not get a working link no matter what. It was quite awhile ago > now, but I think it would report a link was up while the input counters > never climbed above 0. > > We have a couple devices that don't work with Mikrotik devices at all. > Putting a switch in between fixes it > but not ideal. > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Adam Moffett via Af <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Yes...maybe. We had somebody not able to get link with an RB2011. I >> don't think we ever tried the 10/100 ports. The customer ended up getting >> a different router. >> >> >> Is there an issue with the GigE ports on Mikrotik RB2011 not talking to >>> some >>> devices no matter what settings you try? I had this with a customer's >>> copper/fiber media converter, moved it to a 10/100 port on the 2011 and >>> all >>> was good. Now I think I'm seeing the same thing with a CTM. Setting the >>> GigE port to only negotiate 100M didn't work, no amount of playing with >>> the >>> settings worked, had to physically move it to a 10/100 port. >>> >>> If this is a known problem and not my imagination, what other Mikrotik >>> devices share this issue? If this had been an 1100 or CCR or CSR, I >>> might >>> not have had a 10/100 port available and I would have been stuck. >>> >>> >> > > > > > > >
