My experience Ole is that their testing cleared the problem just by sending the test pattern out. I have begun to think that the patterns themselves help sync up some of their equipment. Them testing to the smart jack, is only testing to the front side of the smart jack, the thorough test is to the CSU because it goes completely through their equipment. I have been experiencing this frustrating scenario for 8 years now, and I think it's just in that FM category and has variable causes each time.
In other words, it's a question and battle that cannot be won.... Larry Puckette Network Analyst CCNA,MCP,LANCP Temple Inland [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512/434-1838 -----Original Message----- From: Ole Drews Jensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 3:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Carrier Transitions : Any Comments [7:30829] My networking skills are apparently being tested these days, because the frame relay circuit went down to one of my branch offices. I got someone at the local office to telnet into the router, which was down/down, and the LMI was down/down, and there were just under 10 carrier transitions in the last 24 hours. I had them powercycle the router without any luck. I concluded that my provider was most likely the cause of the problem, and that it was at the branch office circuit, since my router here was talking fine with the other two remote offices, and my LMI was up/up. My provider told me that the circuit was bouncing, or in other words, it had been going down and back up several times since yesterday evening. After several hours, they did an out of service test, where they told me that it had tested dirty to the CSU but clean to the SmartJack, so they were going to put it on hold until I had replaced the WAN cable and reseated the WIC-1DSU-T1 card in the 1720 router. I went out to the branch office and did that, and the PVC has after I powered it on been up for about an hour now. My question now is: Is this (A) a normal thing that you suddenly have to reseat the WIC and/or replace the WAN cable, and that it can cause carrier transitions, or is this more likely (B) my provider that has found and corrected the error on their site, but now is trying to make it look like it was my equipment that was faulty, or (C) ???? Thanks for any comments to this, Ole ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ole Drews Jensen Systems Network Manager CCNP, MCSE, MCP+I RWR Enterprises, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.RouterChief.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NEED A JOB ??? http://www.oledrews.com/job ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=30842&t=30829 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
