A router can be the Active Monitor. You must have some other problem. Be
sure not to use the Ring In or Ring Out ports (except to connect MAUs).
Check your cables. Reset the MAU ports. Take two aspirin, get some sleep. &;-)
Priscilla
At 10:14 AM 2/11/01, Jonathan Hays wrote:
>Token Ring experts, here's a simple problem I'm sure you can help me
>with.
>
>As a quick test of an SMC 4016RN MAU, I connected a standard RJ-45 patch
>cable from two adjacent ports on the MAU to the Token Ring ports of two
>different Cisco 2612 routers.
>
>2612 --to0/0--MAU--to0/0-2612
>
>Here's what I get:
>
>00:42:26: %LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface TokenRing0/0, changed state to
>initializing
>00:42:47: %TR-3-OPENFAIL: Unit 0, open failed: await new monitor, ring
>beaconing
>00:42:49: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface TokenRing0/0, changed state to down
>
>Do I really need a Token Ring host to test this thing or can I get one
>of the routers to act as the Active Monitor?
>
>Thanks,
>Jonathan
>
>
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