You may need to purchase one of the extra software keys like frame cut-thru or 
QoS if you don't have that enabled.

I'm sure Cambium should be able to assist.

Daniel White
Managing Director – Hardware Distribution Sales
ConVergence Technologies
Cell: +1 (303) 746-3590
[email protected]


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Craig Baird
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 9:28 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] PTP820S 2+0 configuration
>
> We haven't been able to determine this.  Where we're seeing it is on a pair of
> Exfo test sets.  We're trying to qualify a new 50 Mbps dedicated circuit using
> RFC 2544 testing using the Exfos.  Tests are failing, reporting lost frames.  
> The
> confusing thing is that our counters on both radios and switches are fairly
> clean.  The radios report zero "defective blocks".  The only errors I am 
> seeing
> that I wonder about show up on both the radio and ethernet sides.  On one
> radio, I see 38 "TX length error frame count" errors since Saturday on the
> ethernet port.  I also have 38 "RX length error frame count"
> errors on the radio.  On the other side, I have 39 "RX length error frame
> count" errors on the ethernet.  None on the radio side.
>
> However, I question whether these errors are related to what I'm seeing in
> any way.  I tested another leg of this circuit the other day.  Identical 
> radios.  It
> tested clean, but was also showing some of these same errors.
>
> Craig
>
>
>
> Quoting David Milholen <[email protected]>:
>
> > Are these frame losses on the Radio side or the ethernet side?
> >
> >
> > On 4/16/2016 10:32 AM, Craig Baird wrote:
> >> So a few months ago we purchased an 11 GHz PTP820S 2+0 link.  We
> >> recently installed it, and it appears to be working fine, aside
> >> from a little bit of frame loss that we are investigating.  While
> >> looking into this frame loss issue, I stumbled across something
> >> that concerns me.  On Cambium's support forum there is a post that
> >> states that when dealing with 2+0 links both radios must be in the
> >> same sub-band.  There is no explanation of why this is the case.
> >> In our situation, the radios are in separate sub-bands.  When we
> >> did the frequency coordination, the only two 80 MHz channels
> >> available were in different sub-bands.  I passed those channels
> >> along to our vendor who worked with Cambium to get a BOM.  At no
> >> point did anyone say that this was a problem.  So now, fast forward
> >> a few months, and I stumble across this post, and now I'm wondering
> >> what the implications will be. Both links are up and running.
> >> Signal on both is right where it should be (-39 on one, -40 on the
> >> other).  Both are running at maximum modulation.  There are no
> >> defective blocks shown on the radio interfaces.  There is no
> >> indication that this sub-band mismatch is causing any issues, aside
> >> from possibly this frame loss thing.  However, if I mute the radios
> >> on one link, the frame loss persists, so I don't think it's related.
> >>
> >> In case it matters, the two links are oppositely polarized.  On one
> >> side we've got a 2 foot dish with an OMT combining the radios.  On
> >> the other side, we've got an 8 foot dual-pol dish.
> >>
> >> So I'm wondering if anyone knows why Cambium says that you can't
> >> use radios from different sub-bands.  Are we in for trouble at some
> >> point?
> >>
> >> Craig
> >>
> >>
> >
> > --
> >
>



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