Light levels?  What kind of switch, is it counting anything besides packet
count/size/frame size?

Link up/down?

Josh Luthman
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On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 2:22 PM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Each event is 8-10 spurts of packet loss precisely 2 seconds apart.  From
> one of these events to the next it can be anywhere from a few minutes to
> over an hour.
>
> I've changed the SFP on one end, but the other end is 100m up a tower.
> I'll certainly get this fixed one way or another, but I'm stunned that
> neither switch reports any problem.
>
>
> On 5/6/2020 2:04 PM, Josh Luthman wrote:
>
> 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
> Office: 937-552-2340
> Direct: 937-552-2343
> 1100 Wayne St
> Suite 1337
> 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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