Allied Telesis AT-8900 Series manual

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    C613-16028-00 REV B www .alliedtelesis.com Best Practice | Intr oduction This How T o Note describes techniques f or on-site debugging. It is in no wa y intended to be a compre hensive guide to debugging Allied T elesis equipment. Instead, it is aimed at passing on some techniques that hav e been found to be us eful. Par ticularly , this document d[...]

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    2 Star ting off When going on-site to inv estigate a network pr ob lem, your guiding aim is to understand the r oot cause of the problem, which might be: z a cable plugged into the wr ong sock et z a misconfiguration of some piece of equipment z an inter operability problem betw een two pieces of equipment z a hardwar e fault in some piece of equip[...]

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    3 show ip count show pim route show pim count show pim neighbour and other commands rele vant to the hardware forwarding of mu lticast in the par ticular models of switch y ou are working with. Once this initial sur ve y is complete , you can st art following up y our theories about what is goi ng o n. F ollo wing up theories Starting from the symp[...]

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    4 All the wa y through the ca pture, type (just at the CLI pr ompt) what you ar e thinking, and what y o u ar e doing. Just write it as str eam-of-consciousness, things like: “Hmmm.. that counter value looks str ange, lets look a t this a bit more” “I have just pulled out blade 5, lets look the internal por ts…” “Right, the ping to the [...]

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