[c-nsp] OK, what is a cheap and dirty hack to test a port

2008-10-15 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Hi All, I have an 8 port PA-8T serial card in a router. The card has an octopus cable that is plugged into a rack of card DSU's. Most of the DSU's have T1's into them. One T1 has developed a problem where it runs for a few hours and then the router serial interface it is on goes down.

Re: [c-nsp] OK, what is a cheap and dirty hack to test a port

2008-10-15 Thread Brian Turnbow
If I simply assign something like IP 127.0.0.5/30 to the port and throw a ton of traffic to 127.0.0.6, will the packets actually go out the port? Or will the router see that the port is looped and just discard the traffic? From the router running extended pings to the 127.0.0.5 address

Re: [c-nsp] OK, what is a cheap and dirty hack to test a port

2008-10-15 Thread Luan Nguyen
Is it a Verizon circuit? We have a T1 circuit with Verizon and have the same problem. We have a point to point circuit, so one side has clocking set to internal to provide the clocking and the other side feeds from the line. I wrote the problem up at http://ccie-security.blogspot.com/ But

Re: [c-nsp] OK, what is a cheap and dirty hack to test a port

2008-10-15 Thread Roy
Just because its a point to point circuit doesn't mean one side has to have internal clocking. This is only true if the circuit is copper all the way. There are lots of reasons that the telco would have its own equipment installed on the circuit and you would need network timing. Roy Luan

Re: [c-nsp] OK, what is a cheap and dirty hack to test a port

2008-10-15 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday 15 October 2008 10:22:17 Luan Nguyen wrote: Is it a Verizon circuit? We have a T1 circuit with Verizon and have the same problem. We have a point to point circuit, so one side has clocking set to internal to provide the clocking and the other side feeds from the line. Have you

Re: [c-nsp] OK, what is a cheap and dirty hack to test a port

2008-10-15 Thread Luan Nguyen
It's on fiber. I asked if we could get network timing from them, but they said no, not on this type of circuit. Also, this circuit has been working for years with the same setting :) Luan Nguyen Chesapeake NetCraftsmen, LLC. www.NetCraftsmen.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [c-nsp] OK, what is a cheap and dirty hack to test a port

2008-10-15 Thread Luan Nguyen
They claimed they don't provide clocking on point to point circuit...not even for testing sake! We did played around with both side getting network timing, with switching the side providing clocking, with both going internal...etc, but nothing worked. It only works for some hours after they

Re: [c-nsp] OK, what is a cheap and dirty hack to test a port

2008-10-15 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Brian Turnbow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 6:50 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: RE: [c-nsp] OK, what is a cheap and dirty hack to test a port If I simply assign something like IP

Re: [c-nsp] OK, what is a cheap and dirty hack to test a port

2008-10-15 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Luan Nguyen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 7:22 AM To: 'Ted Mittelstaedt'; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: RE: [c-nsp] OK, what is a cheap and dirty hack to test a port Is it a Verizon circuit? We have a T1 circuit with

Re: [c-nsp] OK, what is a cheap and dirty hack to test a port

2008-10-15 Thread Paul G. Timmins
Most modern sonet gear does not provide clocking to individual DS1s running it. The only reason clocking ever existed on point to point circuits was that the older gear couldn't avoid being an active participant in the circuit. It's possible the carrier you're using has upgraded the equipment, and

Re: [c-nsp] OK, what is a cheap and dirty hack to test a port

2008-10-15 Thread Rogelio
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: My question, is there a way I can configure the router port so that I can throw a massive amount of (bogus, naturally) traffic to it, and the traffic will go out the port, through the DSU, loopback through the hard loopback plug, then come back into the router and go

Re: [c-nsp] OK, what is a cheap and dirty hack to test a port

2008-10-15 Thread Luan Nguyen
Paul, Thanks. We do have one side set to internal and the other to line and did forget about it for years. I believe one side of our circuit is encapsulated in a DS3, since one tester said they couldn't loop since they had to loop the whole DS3. The other side must be just a regular T1 and they

Re: [c-nsp] OK, what is a cheap and dirty hack to test a port

2008-10-15 Thread Luan Nguyen
-Original Message- From: Ted Mittelstaedt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 12:01 PM To: Luan Nguyen; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: RE: [c-nsp] OK, what is a cheap and dirty hack to test a port -Original Message- From: Luan Nguyen [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [c-nsp] OK, what is a cheap and dirty hack to test a port

2008-10-15 Thread Chris Boyd
On Oct 15, 2008, at 9:35 AM, Roy wrote: Just because its a point to point circuit doesn't mean one side has to have internal clocking. This is only true if the circuit is copper all the way. There are lots of reasons that the telco would have its own equipment installed on the circuit