Troubleshooting SFP Fiber Connectivity

[Former Member]

I have an M2750 NIPS with 2 SFP fiber adapters, i have problems with link in port pair.

The environment is the following:

Swith Dell Power connect 5324 > 1A-1B > Fiber to Remote building : No Link

Swith Dell Power connect 5324 > Fiber to Remote building : Link OK

Comments:

The SFP are enabled

The checkbox McAfee Compliance is enabled

I was changed to another slots (4a-4b)

Do you know another tests to check connectivity?

Any Suggestions?

Bernardo

[Former Member]

what is speed and duplex configuration on NSP fiber ports and LAN switches on both sides?

[Former Member]

In fiber optic adapters does not work with duplexing only in copper adapters, thats options are disabled to only run to a 1gbps, attach is port conf.

Regards.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

When you attempt to enable the ports do you get a brief green light on either of the ports or displayed on the port configuration screen on the NSM?

If you get a momentary green light on the 1A and nothing on the 1B then the chances are the problem lies between the 1B and the downstream device.

Failing that: pop both SFP out and reseat them and if possible try different SFP (one at a time just so you can see if you have a faulty one)

Check that the fibres you are using are of the same grade (mm, sm)

Check that the devices up steam and downstream of the sensor are using the same power fibre light source. i.e. laser to laser, led to led

Hope that helps

[Former Member]

Thanks Sweep,

We are checking and the cables and in one gbic is 50 um and in the other is 65 um, i think thats the problem