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and now, not politics but technology
so, when last we left our intrepid network engineer, she was grappling with pesky 20th century technology of 10M multimode fiber.
after two next-day-delivery orders from blackbox (i mistakenly ordered 1300nm MMF converters the first time -- OOPS), and way too many phone calls and emails where i tried to be the ringmaster of a three ring circus of vendors all saying "NOPE, OUR STUFF IS FINE. IT'S SOMETHING ON THE OTHER SIDE. OR MAYBE THE OTHER OTHER SIDE," i am finally left at this state:
i have an allegedly properly-working canoga perkins mux turning my wan circuits into 10M/full-duplex MMF on 850nm. i have a cross-connect fiber infrastructure leading from the cage where the mux is thru a couple of patch bays to my cage where i can *finally* see that 850nm of red coherent photony goodness coming out of my patch panel. i have an lc/sc mm cable connecting from the patch panel down to my blackbox lmc002a-r5 media converter. i have an ethernet cable leading from the media converter to my router.
and now, link status on my end and link status on the canoga perkins are related by an XOR.
which is to say, either i have link on my side, or they have link on their side, but not both. they've tried swapping cables around and using one strand from one cable and another strand from another, but, well, no change.
the colo tech was as baffled as i was. i left him last night to try another pair of fiber under the floor in case there's something wackily broken in that.
i'm just stumped by this.
WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK, PEOPLE.
and all this for a goddamned 10M link. i have a theory: the slower the link, the more of a fucking pain in the ass it is. so far, this theory is supported.
after two next-day-delivery orders from blackbox (i mistakenly ordered 1300nm MMF converters the first time -- OOPS), and way too many phone calls and emails where i tried to be the ringmaster of a three ring circus of vendors all saying "NOPE, OUR STUFF IS FINE. IT'S SOMETHING ON THE OTHER SIDE. OR MAYBE THE OTHER OTHER SIDE," i am finally left at this state:
i have an allegedly properly-working canoga perkins mux turning my wan circuits into 10M/full-duplex MMF on 850nm. i have a cross-connect fiber infrastructure leading from the cage where the mux is thru a couple of patch bays to my cage where i can *finally* see that 850nm of red coherent photony goodness coming out of my patch panel. i have an lc/sc mm cable connecting from the patch panel down to my blackbox lmc002a-r5 media converter. i have an ethernet cable leading from the media converter to my router.
and now, link status on my end and link status on the canoga perkins are related by an XOR.
which is to say, either i have link on my side, or they have link on their side, but not both. they've tried swapping cables around and using one strand from one cable and another strand from another, but, well, no change.
the colo tech was as baffled as i was. i left him last night to try another pair of fiber under the floor in case there's something wackily broken in that.
i'm just stumped by this.
WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK, PEOPLE.
and all this for a goddamned 10M link. i have a theory: the slower the link, the more of a fucking pain in the ass it is. so far, this theory is supported.
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so weird.
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