Re: PM 2E ISDN

Simon Nuthall (simon@livingston.com)
Sun, 29 Dec 1996 12:22:47 -0800

ISDN Debugging Tools

The following are helpful tools used to gather information about your 5BRI
ports.
As you can see, this may help in answering your question about the
"NO-SERVICE". Sounds like the telco is dropping your SPID/circuit out of
the switch, maybe maintanence.

Note: Any switch provisioning changes in the global settings of the
Portmaster will need to be saved, and a power cycle will need to follow.
The ISDN module is loaded at boot time and will not take effect
dynamically.

Show Port

Command> show <port>

Here is a table for what show port displays according to port status:

Port Status Modem Status Description

NO-SERVICE DCD- CTS- TELCO- NT1- No SPID set
NO-SERVICE DCD- CTS- TELCO- NT1+ No cable or no circuit to
Telephone
Company
NO-SERVICE DCD- CTS+ TELCO+ NT1+ Cable and ISDN circuit OK but SPID
not

registered
IDLE DCD- CTS+ TELCO+ NT1+ SPID registered and ready
to use.
ESTABLISHED DCD- CTS+ TELCO+ NT1+ Connecting or providing device
service
but
no carrier sensed
ESTABLISHED DCD+ CTS+ TELCO+ NT1+ Connected
ESTABLISHED DCD+ CTS- TELCO+ NT1+ Connected with V.120 async but
flow

controlled by other end

Show ISDN

Command> show ISDN

This command will show us a status of what is on the D channel. The frame
counter helps us see if our circuit is live or not, no D channel frames no
ISDN line.

Command> show isdn
D Ports State Change Start Up Down Time Sess In Out
Err
-- ------- --------- ------ ----- ----- ----- ----- ------ ------- -------
----
5 S10/S11 Active 0 2 2 0 0 0 23 19
0
6 S12/S13 Active 0 2 2 0 0 0 23 19
0
7 S14/S15 Active 0 2 2 0 0 0 24 20
0

Here are the meanings of the "show isdn" fields:

Change = Minutes since last change in status
Start = # of times NT1 has attempted to bring up link
Up = # of times its gone to UP status
Down = # of times its gone to DOWN status
Time = # of times D channel has timed out attempting to bring
up the
link
Sessions = # of times PortMaster has received a connect message
from the
Switch
In = # of input ISDN frames on B channel
Out = # of output ISDN frames on B channel
ERRa = number of CRC, abort, overrun, bbc (bad byte count) and
lost
frame errors.

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> From: McClure Doug <closer@scescape.net>
> To: portmaster-users@livingston.com
> Subject: PM 2E ISDN
> Date: Sunday, December 29, 1996 9:10 AM
>
> Has anyone else had a problem with ports going NO-SERVICE DCD- CTS+
> TELCO+ NT1+ periodically?
>
> -doug