Excessive Slip Secs on E1 - AS5350

I have an E1 PRI plugged into a cisco 5350. There are no other circuits attached to the router. The clock source is set to the line, and the tdm bus is set to use this port.

The cisco reports a huge amount of timing slip (300 to 400 Slip Secs per 900 sec interval). There are no other errors.

I do not have physical access to the router or circuit, but on-site staff has tested the circuit, and claim it tested good.

We are a US company, and this our first E1. Is there something special that needs to be configured?

What could be causing these errors? What should I be looking at?

thanks --jeff

# sho tdm clock Primary Clock:

-------------- System primary is slot 2 port 0 of priority 1 TDM Bus Master Clock Generator State = NORMAL [...] Trunk cards controllers clock health information

------------------------------------------------ Slot Type 1 0

2 E1 B G

# sho contr e1 2/0 E1 2/0 is up. Applique type is Channelized E1 - balanced No alarms detected. alarm-trigger is not set Version info of slot 2: HW: 519, PLD Rev: 1 Framer Version: 0x9

Manufacture Cookie Info: EEPROM Type 0x0001, EEPROM Version 0x01, Board ID 0x0A, Board Hardware Version 2.7, Item Number 73-5268-03, Board Revision A0, Serial Number JAE081275ET, PLD/ISP Version , Manufacture Date 23-Mar-2004.

Framing is CRC4, Line Code is HDB3, Clock Source is Line. Data in current interval (640 seconds elapsed): 0 Line Code Violations, 0 Path Code Violations 276 Slip Secs, 0 Fr Loss Secs, 0 Line Err Secs, 0 Degraded Mins 276 Errored Secs, 0 Bursty Err Secs, 0 Severely Err Secs, 0 Unavail Secs Data in Interval 1: 0 Line Code Violations, 0 Path Code Violations 384 Slip Secs, 0 Fr Loss Secs, 0 Line Err Secs, 0 Degraded Mins 384 Errored Secs, 0 Bursty Err Secs, 0 Severely Err Secs, 0 Unavail Secs

# sho ver Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software IOS (tm) 5350 Software (C5350-IS-M), Version 12.3(3h), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)

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Jeff Weisberg
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Perhaps the device on the other side of the E1 is configured to try to derive clock from the loop? If both devices try to be loop timed, then this will give you slips.

Try configuring your 5350 to be free running, and see what happens.

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If this still doesn't work, you'll have to talk to someone responsible for the equipment on the other end of the E1 and see what they think they're doing. Here's the general idea:

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Aaron

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Aaron Leonard

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