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N-Ring – Status, Continued…
In rare cases an N-Ring can have a ―Partial Fault‖. An example of this is to have a break in just one fiber in
a duplex channel fiber pair. The screenshot below shows N-Ring Manager Status when a ‗Higher‘ N-Ring
Port (TX2, FX2) is not receiving self health frames all the way around the N-Ring, though the other (low
TX1, FX1) N-Ring port is:
The screenshot below shows N-Ring Manager Status when a ‗Lower‘ N-Ring Port (TX1, FX1) is not
receiving self health frames all the way around the N-Ring, though the other (high TX2 , FX2) N-Ring port
is: