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RE: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior
From: kwallace () pcconnection com
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:10:15 -0400
2 quick things come to mind- single mode vs multimode, or the signal is too hot and you need attenuators. -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 12:48 PM To: nanog () nanog org Subject: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior Hello all, wondering if anyone has seen or experienced this same problem. Currently deploying an OC12 on a campus network and am using Netgear media converters. Set up the lines and had lit fiber to the building I needed it to go to. On one end (main drop) I had light and tested the connectivity which worked fine, on the other side, when I jacked up my Netgear, it flickered. Now, when I went to swap out the fiber, I noticed a full contact between the wires and the converter dropped it out. Meaning if I had the wires not fully plugged it lit, if I plugged them entirely in, it dropped. So... I ran to the other building and tried to replicate it there, and it did the same. I figured bad media converter so I swapped it out, next one worked fine. However, I took the media converter and swapped the funky acting one to yet another building and it worked fine. Anyone care to offer a thought on this? Relevant to my media converter? Bad line, "Murphy's Law", etc? =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ J. Oquendo GPG Key ID 0x51F9D78D Fingerprint 2A48 BA18 1851 4C99 CA22 0619 DB63 F2F7 51F9 D78D http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x51F9D78D sil @ politrix . org http://www.politrix.org sil @ infiltrated . net http://www.infiltrated.net "How can we account for our present situation unless we believe that men high in this government are concerting to deliver us to disaster?" Joseph McCarthy "America's Retreat from Victory"
Current thread:
- Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior J. Oquendo (Aug 24)
- Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior Andy Dills (Aug 24)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior kwallace (Aug 24)
- Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior Lane Patterson (Aug 24)
- Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior Deepak Jain (Aug 24)
- Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior Tom (UnitedLayer) (Aug 24)
- Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior Niels Bakker (Aug 24)
- Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior Vinay Bannai (Aug 24)
- Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior Lane Patterson (Aug 24)
- Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior John R. Sosebee (Aug 24)
- optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior) Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 24)
- Re: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior) Robert E. Seastrom (Aug 29)
- Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior Lane Patterson (Aug 25)
- Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 25)