Serial Up, Line Down !!!

[azj]

Dear All,

My wonderful Cisco lab has been having the rare habbit of a serial line suddnly going line protocol down. Yet the physical link stays.

Normally a power cycle works, however the test environment is used for project work and if went down in my absence, could not be restored.

This seems to have had a spate since a recent power outage, but I cant prove it.

The connections are serial to serial, router to router (DCE,DTE) so I am clocking on one end, that is all.

Are there any things im missing, or should I be looking for a hardware error, but then again wouldnt that affect the physical link, as opposed to the line protocol.

Thanks for any info.

AJ

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[dialink-ir]

AJ,

I have experienced the same issue with a couple PtP T1 lines--where I could bring up the circuit, but could not get the protocol up. After much troubleshooting, the problem was in fact due to a bad T1 card. If you believe this trouble may have occurred after a power outage, this also tends to point to a hardware issue.

I'd try swapping serial/t1 cards if you've got 'em.

I hope this helps.

Good luck,

Vince