[ixp1200] Problems with Diagnostics...

[Brandewie, Dirk J]

Hi Austen,

I forwarded your question to the TME for the board we will see if we 
can find the answer.

--Dirk

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Austen McDonald [mailto:austen at cc.gatech.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 9:49 AM
> To: ixp1200 at CS.Princeton.EDU
> Subject: [ixp1200] Problems with Diagnostics...
> 
> 
> 
> 	We at Tech are trying to debug some problems with our gigabit
> ports: they've seemed to stop working (sending and recv'ing) 
> suddenly and
> there appears to be no reason for it. So, we decided to turn to the
> diagnositcs.
> 	We updated the diagnostics (b/c the old version has 
> known gigabit
> problems) as per the release notes in SDK v1.3: we 
> reinstalled the boot
> image boot1200.bin overwriting everything and installing Diagnostics
> v1.2.76.
> 	When we run the diagnostics, they fail on the gigabit tests;
> nothing is sent or received except in one case: if the first 
> thing you do
> when you run the diagnostics is gigabit, internal loopback 
> mode, run test
> continuously, then 16 packets are sent--after that nothing 
> and if you go
> do something else (like an octal test or external loopback 
> test) before
> you try this test, nothing happens. However, the octal tests 
> work. Does
> anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> Austen McDonald
> austen at cc.gatech.edu
> 
> God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. 
> He integrates empirically.
>   -- Albert Einstein
> 
>