One thing, I don't know what kind of RF backhauls you are using, but the Motorola PTP radios have a feature that disconnect the Ethernet briefly to reset any Spanning Tree functions on the switch. Check the radios and see if they are dropping briefly, causing the Ethernet disconnects.
Eric -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Bret Clark Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 10:54 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] OT Question.... How close are these links? We find that at 0.10 in/hr of rain fall will cause our 60GHz link to drop and because of the Ethernet follows Wireless setting this also drops our Ethernet connection, normally we only see this in hard rain. On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 10:55 -0400, Bob Moldashel wrote: > To All, > > OK Its a fiber interface. The system has been working fine. > > Configuration is this: > > 2960 <--- fiber ---> Gig Radio <---- 60ghz ----> Gig Radio > <---fiber----> 2960 > > The interface went down twice in the same day. The radio never went > down. the fiber tests fine and no one has screwed with it. They are > short runs. This is a new deployment that has been up for about 6 weeks. > Fiber is all multimode 62.5 mm. It has not been intermittent. It just > went down hard twice one day and has been fine since. And when it went > down it went down at 8:15 am and came back up at 2pm then went back down > at 2pm and came back up at 4:30 and has been fine since. Both sites are > rooftop locations and it was raining the day the event happened so no > one was working in the vacinity of the equipment. And it has rained on > and off here for the past 3 weeks with no issues otherwise so I am > ruling out weather. The radio link never goes down. Ever. So its not > rain taking out the 60 Ghz. hop. > > OK Teaching moment... :-) > > For those of you that are not aware most Gigabit radios when they loose > their RF link shut down their gig ports on both sides to indicate a hard > failure. This obviously expedites things like OSPF and such for rerouting. > > Just really weird.... > > -B- > > Faisal Imtiaz wrote: > > Hi Bob, > > This shows the port simply going up and down. And noting more. > > > > Is this a Fiber Port ? Or Copper ? > > > > If copper, then the wire needs to be tested, (no loose connector, right kind > > of cable, cat6, and the cable not exceeding 300ft,etc.) > > > > If it is fiber then, check the fiber, clean the fiber, check the SFP/GBIC, > > clear them, reseat them, confirm that you are using right cable (single mode > > or MultiMode) and the SFP/GBIC's Match, and depending on the length of > > cable, make sure your light levels are good, there is no kink in cable etc) > > Don't mix MultiMode cables with Single Mode Cables Connectors.. > > > > TIP, fiber cables / SFP/GBIC, you can test each side by doing a LoopBack on > > the Far end... To do a loopback in fiber world, you just have to find a way > > to connect the two ends of the fiber cable together. > > > > > > Additionally, you may want to setup the devices on both side to be Fixed > > 1000FDX rather than Auto negotiate. > > > > Regards > > > > > > Faisal Imtiaz > > SnappyDSL.net > > -----Original Message----- > > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > > Behalf Of Bob Moldashel > > Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 10:14 AM > > To: WISPA General List > > Subject: [WISPA] OT Question.... > > > > Sorry guys. I know its a little OT but I am the RF guy, not the network guy. > > But its kind of on topic because its connected to a wireless link. :-) > > > > What does this tell everybody??? Its from a Cisco 2960 switch. > > > > Oct 27 08:12:18.407 EST: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface > > GigabitEthernet0/21, changed state to down Oct 27 08:12:19.455 EST: > > %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface GigabitEthernet0/21, changed state to down Oct 27 > > 13:52:16.606 EST: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface GigabitEthernet0/21, changed > > state to up Oct 27 13:52:18.661 EST: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on > > Interface GigabitEthernet0/21, changed state to up Oct 27 14:15:10.273 EST: > > %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface GigabitEthernet0/21, changed > > state to down Oct 27 14:15:11.314 EST: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface > > GigabitEthernet0/21, changed state to down Oct 27 16:26:29.667 EST: > > %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface GigabitEthernet0/21, changed state to up > > > > > > I know the gig port is going up and down but does it tell you anything else? > > > > > > Tnx. > > > > -B- > > > > -B- > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- > > ---- > > WISPA Wants You! 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