POE Camera is drawing power - but interface is showing as down?

I have a POE camera, connected to a switch (EdgeCore AS4610-54P) running Cumulus Linux 4.3.0. Cable length is approximately 60m from the switch to the camera.

If I check the POE stats in Cumulus, that device does seem to be drawing power on port 3 (only 5W though):

cumulus@cumulus:mgmt:~$ sudo poectl -i swp1-swp48 Port Status Allocated Priority PD type PD class Voltage Current Power ----- -------------------- --------- -------- -------------- -------- ------- ------- --------- swp1 searching 0.0 W low none none 0.0 V 0 mA 0.0 W swp2 searching 0.0 W low none none 0.0 V 0 mA 0.0 W swp3 connected 31.2 W low IEEE802.3af/at 4 84.4 V 109 mA 5.9 W 

However, if I check the port status - it shows as down (it's connected to port 3)

cumulus@cumulus:mgmt:~$ net show interface all State Name Spd MTU Mode LLDP Summary ----- ------ --- ----- --------- ---------------------- -------------------------- UP lo N/A 65536 Loopback IP: 127.0.0.1/8 lo IP: ::1/128 UP eth0 1G 1500 Mgmt Master: mgmt(UP) eth0 IP: 192.168.75.60/24(DHCP) UP swp1 1G 9216 Access/L2 localhost (Ethernet28) Master: bridge(UP) DN swp2 0M 9216 Access/L2 Master: bridge(UP) DN swp3 0M 9216 Access/L2 Master: bridge(UP) DN swp4 0M 9216 Access/L2 Master: bridge(UP) DN swp5 0M 9216 Access/L2 Master: bridge(UP) DN swp6 0M 9216 Access/L2 Master: bridge(UP) DN swp7 0M 9216 Access/L2 Master: bridge(UP) 

I also checked this with a second switch (Ruckus 7150-C10ZP) - and it's similar - POE shows it as drawing power (port 3):

ICX7150-C10ZP Switch>show poe Power Capacity: Total is 240000 mWatts. Current Free is 210000 mWatts. Power Allocations: Requests Honored 11 times Port Admin Oper ---Power(mWatts)--- PD Type PD Class Pri Fault/ State State Consumed Allocated Error -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/1/1 On Non-PD 0 0 n/a n/a 3 n/a 1/1/2 On Off 0 0 n/a n/a 3 n/a 1/1/3 On On 6100 30000 802.3at Class 4 3 n/a 1/1/4 On Off 0 0 n/a n/a 3 n/a 1/1/5 On Non-PD 0 0 n/a n/a 3 n/a 1/1/6 On Off 0 0 n/a n/a 3 n/a 1/1/7 On Off 0 0 n/a n/a 3 n/a 1/1/8 On Off 0 0 n/a n/a 3 n/a 1/2/1 On Off 0 0 n/a n/a 3 n/a 1/2/2 On Off 0 0 n/a n/a 3 n/a -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 6100 30000 

But interface status shows as down (port 3):

ICX7150-C10ZP Switch>show interfaces briefTFTP session timed out Port Link State Dupl Speed Trunk Tag Pvid Pri MAC Name 1/1/1 Up Forward Full 1G None No 1 0 d4c1.9e9c.0532 1/1/2 Down None None None None No 1 0 d4c1.9e9c.0533 1/1/3 Down None None None None No 1 0 d4c1.9e9c.0534 1/1/4 Down None None None None No 1 0 d4c1.9e9c.0535 1/1/5 Up Forward Full 1G None No 1 0 d4c1.9e9c.0536 1/1/6 Down None None None None No 1 0 d4c1.9e9c.0537 1/1/7 Down None None None None No 1 0 d4c1.9e9c.0538 1/1/8 Down None None None None No 1 0 d4c1.9e9c.0539 1/2/1 Down None None None None No 1 0 d4c1.9e9c.053b 1/2/2 Down None None None None No 1 0 d4c1.9e9c.053c 1/3/1 Down None None None None No 1 0 d4c1.9e9c.053d 1/3/2 Down None None None None No 1 0 d4c1.9e9c.053e mgmt1 Down None None None None No None 0 d4c1.9e9c.0532 

I tested this previously using just a patch lead to the switch, and I could have sworn it was working fine.

Any ideas what's going on? (I believe I'm still under distance limits for POE and CAT6)

UPDATE: I did do a cable test earlier - and from what I can tell it passed (image link). However, let me know if there's something I missed.

bridge/forwarder IP for FTP

Hi, First let me explain the network 

Site A

IP - 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.0.100

Subnet - 255.255.255.0

Site B

IP - 192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.100

Subnet - 255.255.255.0

Connection: IPSec LAN-LAN 

Device : TL-ER6120

Works fine I can ping devices across subnet without any issues. Can ping/transfer files from PC-PC

https://i.imgur.com/oZzH0jB.jpg

The actual issue is that there are few legacy IP cameras that only scans for storage FTP locations in the current subnet to store the recordings. In my case Site, A has an FTP server that can store the recordings. Site B has a couple of those cameras. But when the scan runs there are no such FTP servers running in that subnet. Ideally, the camera scans from 192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.100. then gives up stating no storage server

Is there any way this could be solved by sacrificing an IP such as 192.168.1.100 and make a static route to my FTP server. So that device, when it scans, shows FTP in 192.168.1.100 but the actual FTP server is running in Site A with some IP.

or is there a way to solve this issue by adding some sort of bridge/forwarder in FTP. 

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I've just installed Cumulus Linux 4.3.0 on an EdgeCore AS4610-54P switch. (4.3 is the last supported version on Broadcom-based switches - 4.4+ are for Mellanox switches only).

Upon logging in, I'm trying to run apt-get update to upgrade any packages.

However, I'm getting a HTTP 500 on the apt repo:

cumulus@cumulus:mgmt:~$ sudo apt update [sudo] password for cumulus: Ign:1 copy:/var/lib/cumulus/cumulus-local-apt-archive cumulus-local-apt-archive InRelease Get:2 copy:/var/lib/cumulus/cumulus-local-apt-archive cumulus-local-apt-archive Release [1,115 B] Ign:3 copy:/var/lib/cumulus/cumulus-local-apt-archive cumulus-local-apt-archive Release.gpg Get:4 copy:/var/lib/cumulus/cumulus-local-apt-archive cumulus-local-apt-archive/main armel Packages [18.2 kB] Err:5 http://apt.cumulusnetworks.com/repo CumulusLinux-4-latest InRelease 500 Internal Server Error [IP: 13.35.142.70 80] Fetched 19.3 kB in 1s (21.6 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done All packages are up to date. W: Failed to fetch http://apt.cumulusnetworks.com/repo/dists/CumulusLinux-4-latest/InRelease 500 Internal Server Error [IP: 13.35.142.70 80] W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. 

Does anybody know if there is something going on with Cumulus (NVidia/Mellanoxes) update repositories, or if there's some way of working around this?

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