Re: (PM) line errors on PM3 -- what's acceptable?

Don Lashier (dl@newportnet.com)
Fri, 28 Nov 1997 20:07:40 -0800

Yes, genuinely high, here's mine:

ni-pm3-1> ver
Livingston PortMaster PM-3 ComOS 3.7.2
System uptime is 9 days 18 hours 28 minutes
ni-pm3-1> sh line0
---------------------- line0 - T1 Inband DS0 ---------------

Status: UP Framing: D4 Encoding: AMI PCM: u-law

Signaling: Trunk E&M wink start

Receive Level: +2dB to -7.5dB

Alarms Violations
----------------------------- -----------------------------
Blue 0 Bipolar 0
Yellow 0 CRC Errors 0
Receive Carrier Loss 0 Multiframe Sync 0
Loss of Sync 0

On 11/28/97, at 8:33 PM, Jason Marshall wrote:

>Hi All, we've had our PM3s on line for a couple weeks now, and I've
>noticed that two of our PRIs seem to be generating a lot of errors. I say
>"seem" because I don't really know how many errors I should expect to see.
>The really-error-prone lines are both on the same PM3, though that's
>probably just coincidence.
>
>
>pm3-2> ver
>Livingston PortMaster PM-3 ComOS 3.7.2
>System uptime is 10 days 15 minutes
>
>
>pm3-2> sh line0
>---------------------- line0 - T1 Primary Rate ISDN ---------------
>
> Status: UP Framing: ESF Encoding: B8ZS PCM: u-law
>
> Receive Level: +2dB to -7.5dB
>
> Alarms Violations
> ----------------------------- -----------------------------
> Blue 8 Bipolar 70745
> Yellow 13 CRC Errors 553
> Receive Carrier Loss 1 Multiframe Sync 253886
> Loss of Sync 13
>
>pm3-2> sh line1
>---------------------- line1 - T1 Primary Rate ISDN ---------------
>
> Status: UP Framing: ESF Encoding: B8ZS PCM: u-law
>
> Receive Level: +2dB to -7.5dB
>
> Alarms Violations
> ----------------------------- -----------------------------
> Blue 2 Bipolar 67256
> Yellow 1 CRC Errors 4438
> Receive Carrier Loss 1 Multiframe Sync 30270
> Loss of Sync 8
>
>
>If these numbers are genuinely high, I'd like to get our telco to fix the
>problems sooner rather than later *8-)

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