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Title:DEChub/HUBwatch/PROBEwatch CONFERENCE
Notice:Firmware -2, Doc -3, Power -4, HW kits -5, firm load -6&7
Moderator:NETCAD::COLELLADT
Created:Wed Nov 13 1991
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4455
Total number of notes:16761

3057.0. "Problems with PORTswitch 900TP and Flexchannel connection" by FRSTI::CHRISTOPH () Mon Dec 11 1995 14:45

Hi,

on saturday we replaced 33 DECrepeater 900TM with PORTswitch 900TP on 13 DEChubs
and we had a lot of trouble with connecting the PORTswitches to the flexchannels.

1. In 1 DEChub we connected 2 PORTswitches with the following configuration

	slot 6 all port's on group 1 connected to the first Ethernet flex lan
	Thinwire connection to group 1 but not connected to the Backplane thinwire.
	
	slot 7 all port's on group 1 connected to the second Ethernet flex channel
	Thinwire connection to group1 but not connected to the Backplane thinwire 


each of the modules is connected via port 1 to a router.
After connecting the flex channels the internal lan 1 LED on both Portswitches
remains on yellow and the we had no connection over the modules.

Solution:
	 We replaced the DEChub Backplane 

2. in a second DEChub we installed 3 PORTswitch 900TP.

	slot 5 all port's on group 1 connected to the first ethernet flex lan
	Thinwire connection to group 1 connected to the backplane thinwire all 

	slot 6 all port's on group 1 connected to the first ethernet flex lan
	Thinwire connection to group 1 but not conn. to the backplane thinwire.

	slot 7 all port's on group 1 connected to the second ethernet flex lan
	Thinwire connection to group 1 but not connected to the backplane thinwire

port 1 in slot 6 and port 1 in slot 7 are connected to a router.
After connecting the flex channels the internal lan "2" LED on the PORTswitch in 
slot 5 remains on yellow and we have no problems conecting to the network.

Why did the LAN "2" LED in slot 5 still remain on yellow?
No group 2 is configured on th module??
Replacing the PORTswitch and using another slot doesn't sho any difference.


3. in another DEChub we installed 4 PORTswitch 900 TP

	slot 2 port's 1-16 on group 1 connected to the first ethernet flex lan
	       port's 17-32 on group 2 connected to the second eth. flex lan
	Thinwire connection to group 1 but not connected to the backplane thinwire

	slot 5 all ports to group 1 conn. to the first flexlan
	thinwire to group 1 but not connected

	slot 6 all ports to group 1 conn. to the second felxlan
	thinwire to group 1 connected to the backplane thinwire

	slot 7 all ports on group 1 conn to the third flexlan
	thinwire to group 1 but not connected

port 1 of slot 7 and slot 6 and slot 5 are connected to a router
we got no lan connection between slot 2 group 2 and slot 6.
the lan connection slot 2 group 1 to slot 5 was ok.

replacing the modules in slot 5 and 6 dosen't help
so we connected the backplane thinwire of the module in slot 2 and d
disconnected the flex lan conn of group 2 and everything works.

The Firmware is 
DEChub            V4.1.0
PORTswitch 900TP  V2.1.0
		

So are there any known Problems with the PORTswitch and the flex lans?
It seems that we're having problems with the backplane connection's.
Before we swapped the repeaters with the portswitches we didn't had any Problems.
On Thursday we're going onsite to replace the 2 DEChub Backplanes.


regards 
christoph
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3057.1FRSTI::CHRISTOPHFri Dec 22 1995 11:5510
hi,

we replaced the DEChub Backplanes and it's working now.

On one BAckplane we saw that the Heatsink of a Transistor was not soldered
correctly and broken.(on the module with the lower Backplane connectors)

regards 

christoph