[AusNOG] Strange ADSL problem - troubleshooting / diagnosis advice wanted
Guy Ellis
guy at traverse.com.au
Fri Sep 12 11:33:32 EST 2014
Since your error counters are clean, and have stable line sync (I
think), changing the ADSL firmware might just confuse the matter?
I think your problem is at a higher layer - Wireshark is your friend ;-)
- G.
On 12/09/2014 11:25 AM, Beeson, Ayden wrote:
>
> Yep good point, it's been so long since I messed with it I always
> forget to think about them being technically separate, Cisco bundle
> them into the IOS release but I have used other versions before to
> override the IOS version (on an 857 that I used to use) as the
> "latest" IOS for that was so far behind it wasn't funny.
>
> Cheers for the link, I'll have a look J
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ayden Beeson//
>
> *From:*Damien Gardner Jnr [mailto:rendrag at rendrag.net]
> *Sent:* Friday, 12 September 2014 11:19 AM
> *To:* Beeson, Ayden
> *Cc:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Strange ADSL problem - troubleshooting /
> diagnosis advice wanted
>
> Bear in mind, it's not really IOS updates you want, it's adsl firmware
> updates.. http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2036510 has a really
> good list to choose from.. On my 877, I settled for 6.0.10 which had
> a good mix of stability and speed (I now sync at 5mbps instead of 4 on
> standard 877 firmware, but not the 6 it was syncing on with a
> different version but very unstable)
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> DG
>
> On 12 September 2014 11:09, Beeson, Ayden <ABeeson at csu.edu.au
> <mailto:ABeeson at csu.edu.au>> wrote:
>
> Hey everybody,
>
> For those of you that are interested, just a brief update.
>
> I have been in touch with both Exetel's tier 1/2 support (via my
> support ticket) and Exetel's residential support manager and have
> been collecting some information for them.
>
> I have not had many failures since the post, but I have had a few,
> last night I had a big one and managed to get a fair bit of
> troubleshooting done.
>
> Things I have found in addition to my previous post:
>
> Pings / traceroutes to international destinations (bbc.co.uk
> <http://bbc.co.uk> in this case) also suffer the problem, with the
> same 30ms increase, always exactly 30ms.
> ATM pings end to end work without any packet loss or ping
> increase. Segment based atm pings always fail, I suspect they are
> blocked on the remote equipment (DSLAM?).
> Reed-Solomon errors do not increase during the failure in any
> noteworthy way (1 or 2 every so often, no large increasing number
> or anything)
>
> I'm going to look into borrowing the test 1941 we have at work w/
> the ADSL WIC and maybe try that out at home, but I suspect it'll
> be the same. I'm going to have a look for IOS updates to my 887 as
> well.
>
> I'll send another update when / if I have any more updates,
> hopefully it'll be sorted out soon. Thanks again to everybody who
> has offered advice, tips, config to check, or assorted similar
> scenarios etc., your advice has all been extremely positive as
> well as very helpful and interesting.
>
> Cheers,
> Ayden
>
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