Anything is possible.  Anything.

Are your light levels OK?  Can you just swap the SFP and see if that
changes it?  How often are the errors?

Josh Luthman
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Troy, OH 45373


On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 11:47 AM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to track down little spurts of packet loss on a 100 meter MM
> fiber connection.  I know the loss doesn't occur before this point but
> does occur after it, so I know where it's happening but neither
> interface reports any errors.  It's just frustrating because I don't
> understand one of these Ethernet devices is dropping packets without
> reporting any sort of error at all.
>
> Is it possible a switch passes a frame to an SFP and the SFP has some
> internal error causing a dropped frame, but that the switch is now
> oblivious to the error because it happened in the electronics of the
> SFP?  These are 8+ years old Maxxwave SFP's.
>
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