FEC Errors

Bill · Oct 06, 2009, 17:24:53

It would seem that 3Com don't expect a router to stay connected on a (slightly) poor line for too long... I've been watching the error counts go up and wondering what would happen when they got really high:

Interleaved Path FEC Correction 0 -2033592877

Rik · Oct 06, 2009, 17:26:36

Classic lack of bytes in the register, eh Bill?

Bill · Oct 06, 2009, 17:34:16

Quote from: Rik on Oct 06, 2009, 17:26:36
Classic lack of bytes in the register, eh Bill?

Yup, and treated as a DWORD not an UNSIGNED LONG, sloppy programming

It would be nice to work out the error rate, but one bit of information the damn thing doesn't give is the uptime, and the last resync fell off the end of the log long ago

Rik · Oct 06, 2009, 17:35:27

Do what I do, Bill, keep a manual log.

Bill · Oct 06, 2009, 17:41:41

I'm too idle

And I seldom need it tbh. I'll have to have a rootle around to see if I can persuade it to email the log periodically or something...

Rik · Oct 06, 2009, 17:58:12

Or run Routerstats...

Bill · Oct 06, 2009, 18:00:13

Good idea, if there's a Mac version

Rik · Oct 06, 2009, 18:11:41

Ah, sorry, I was forgetting myself.