TA 102/202 Technical Support Guide
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Chapter 3
Troubleshooting
Chapter 3 contains troubleshooting information intended to help you identify
and correct TA 102/202 eMTA malfunctions. Troubleshooting information is con-
tained in Table 3-1 and in the section entitled ‘Typical End User Problems and
Solutions”.
Before getting into troubleshooting concepts, it maybe useful to briefly review the
normal power-up sequence of the TA 102/202 eMTA. When power is first applied,
the TA 102/202 eMTA automatically tries to join the network and become opera-
tional by performing the following operations:
Top 5 LEDs Turned ON
1. Power-Up Self-Tests
Cable LED Blinking Slowly
2. Downstream channel acquisition
3. Upstream channel acquisition/Ranging
Cable LED Blinking Rapidly
4. Cable Modem establishing IP connectivity via DHCP server
5. Obtain Time of Day
6. Download configuration file via TFTP server
Cable LED Turned On and Steady
7. Registration to authorize traffic forwarding
8. Baseline Privacy initialization if enabled
9. Cable Modem in operational state
Line 1 LED Blinking Slowly
10. MTA establishes connectivity via DHCP server
Line 2 LED Blinking Slowly
11. MTA finds Key Distribution Center (KDC)
12. MTA resolves the KDC Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) with DNS
13. MTA obtains tickets to the provisioning server from the KDC
14. MTA finds provisioning server
15. MTA resolves provisioning server FQDN with DNS
16. MTA establishes SNMPv3 keys with provisioning server
17. MTA informed of a successful key negotiation via an SNMP INFORM message
18. MTA gets SNMP sets for the config file location and name