Perhaps this is a case of vandalism?  Especially since it only happened 
during the time when people would be in the building.

Or maybe the "cleaning lady" bumped something?
marlon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Moldashel" <lakel...@gbcx.net>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 8:18 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] OT Question....


> No
>
>
>
>
> Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
>> That almost sounds like someone *physically* unplugging the devices.  Did
>> any of you show up during the outage?  (I assume yes but have to ask....)
>>
>> marlon
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Bob Moldashel" <lakel...@gbcx.net>
>> To: <fai...@snappydsl.net>; "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
>> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 7:55 AM
>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] OT Question....
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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-
>>>>
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