Darrell Newcomb wrote: > > > As others are saying, get the carrier involved. Do some > loopbacks with > their > > help. (Do loopbacks still make sense with DS3? I've only > worked with DS1). > > Regardless, I think you've done the requisite testing and > swapping on your > > side. Time to hassle the carrier. > > > I haven't been reading groupstudy much lately so my appologies > if this has > been suggested already. > > One of the more simple ways to exact a loopback is to do a > hardloop for this > environment with a short piece of coax. Doing this against > tx/rx of the PA > will allow you to send test pings with the link up. Remember > you'll need to > use an encap that doesn't require much of the far end, such as > HDLC. Use > this to test the PA and swap it out if needed. > > You can use this same hard loop against the circuit as it > enters one of your > prem's, but there are a variety of reasons why this wouldn't be > preferred. > But in a pinch it can allow you to run across the far end > without having > hands at both ends of the circuit. Of course you'll need some > way to reach > both routers outside of this circuit. > > I didn't see any verification if you are running c-bit on the > 7500 as well?
Darrell, In one of the original posts that have 'sh controllers' output, "framing is C-bit" can be found. I didn't see anything about coding, but I guess it's pretty much inferred that B3ZS goes along with C-bit. Regards, Scott > > Best of Luck, > Darrell > Always looking for the next big project... > darrell (at) hayaitacos net > > Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=65616&t=65491 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]