06-22-2001 12:56 PM
I check the log on catalyst 5500 and get an errors about atm oc3 module as following:
Number of received Cells dropped due to Unknown VC: 9640912
PMD Error Counts:
for PHY_A
Section BIP-8 errors (B1): 8271825
I would like to know it indicates that optical wire is bad ?
Thank you
06-27-2001 01:49 PM
It definitely sounds physical layer to me. I'm not going to tell you to run new fiber though.
07-30-2001 04:15 AM
have you tried characterising the fibre (OTDR) - probably best done before jumping to conclusions.
PS I'm not familiar with the product set but if your carrying multiple signals over single fibre and your only seeing errors on single channel - highly unlikely its the fibre
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