BSR 2000 Command Reference Guide

Release 1.0

 

 

show cable flap-list

The show cable flap-listcommand displays the cable flap-list and provides the following information:.

MAC ID

Customer account or street address.

Cable IF

Upstream port.

Hit

Number of times modem responds to mac

 

layer keep alive messages, minimum hit rate

 

one time/30 seconds, can indicate intermittent

 

upstream, laser clipping, or common-path

 

distortion. Count should be much higher than

 

Miss count, if not, modem having problem

 

maintaining the connection due to upstream

 

problem, flap count increments each time the

 

system transitions from a Hit to a Miss.

Miss

Number of times modem misses the mac

 

layer keep-alive message, 8% normal, can

 

indicate intermittent upstream, laser clipping,

 

common path distortion.

Ins

Number of times the modem comes up and

 

connect to the network, number of times RF

 

link reestablished more frequently than time

 

period configured in the cable flap-list

 

insertion time command.

P-Adj

Number of times the CMTS instructed the

 

modem to adjust transmit (TX) power beyond

 

threshold configured with the cable flap-list

 

power-adjust threshold command, can

 

indicate unacceptable connections, thermal

 

sensitivity.

Flap

Total of P-Adj and Ins values, high flap-count

 

modems have high SIDs and may not register.

Rng

Number of times the modem exceeded the

 

missed ranging threshold.

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