Network problems, High-level troubleshooting – Paradyne 8310 MVLt User Manual

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Diagnostics and Troubleshooting

6-7

8000-A2-GB26-10

January 1999

Network Problems

To provide a practical aid in the isolation and resolution of Layer 2 network
difficulties, the guidelines in this section provide information on troubleshooting a
generic network containing the devices found in most networks.

The illustration below shows the generic network addressed by this chapter.

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OI

Next Hop

Router

(NHR)

DSLAM

Clients

NMS

WAN

Hub

SN

SN

ISP

IPC

WAN

Service Domain
Management Domain

ISP = Internet Service Provider

IPC = Interworking Packet Concentrator

NMS = Network Management System
SN = Service Node

NMS

ISP

Gateway

Router

These procedures assume that Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is used on
the link between the IPC and the next hop router (NHR).

High-Level Troubleshooting

The following high-level procedures help you isolate problems to a particular
segment of the network.

H

For static clients, make sure the client can Ping its own IP address. This
confirms the IP address was successfully accepted by the client computer.

H

Make sure the client’s default gateway is the same as the IP address for the
Bridge Virtual Interface (BVI) on the appropriate ISP router.

H

An Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) table may have invalid entries if a
recent configuration change took place anywhere on the network and not
enough time has passed for the entry to expire. Check the ARP tables on the
client, DSLAM, and router.

H

Make sure a default route is configured on the MCC card (screen A-E-A).

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