100% chance the VFL finds something.  Light is light - be it a red blinker
or SFP blink.

Josh Luthman
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On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 10:10 AM Nate Burke <n...@blastcomm.com> wrote:

> Maybe I should go pull it out of the garbage and put the VFL on it to
> see if there's anything
>
> On 9/23/2021 9:05 AM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
> > We had one do that in a splice case a few weeks back.  Just decided to
> break all by itself. Maybe temperature or vibrations did it.  Very visible
> fault with the VFL.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On Sep 23, 2021, at 7:56 AM, Nate Burke <n...@blastcomm.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> If I didn't diagnose it, I wouldn't have believed it.  1M SM fiber
> Patch cable installed in a rack between router and a switch.  Link went
> down at exactly noon.  Router had no link, switch showed link. Replaced
> both SFP's with no change.  Reversed patch cable and link came up.  Put
> back to original, no link.  Threw that cable in the garbage and put in a
> new one.  I have a camera looking at the front of this rack.  Nothing moved
> when the link went down, I can see the link light turn off on the router
> when it failed.
> >>
> >> I never would have believed a fiber patch cable would just up and fail
> with no external force.
> >>
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