Re: [nsp] Cisco 7500 Series Router and CEF/ISL/SMIP Issues

From: Jared Mauch (jared@puck.nether.net)
Date: Sat Nov 17 2001 - 15:13:04 EST


        I would upgrade the vip to 64M at least. That way you
can run dcef on it.

        - Jared

On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 06:11:43AM -0500, Hassan, Shehzad wrote:
> Guys,
> Anymore suggestions/workarounds ?
> Thanks
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hassan, Shehzad [mailto:shehzad.hassan@bellnexxia.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 1:28 PM
> To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
> Cc: Hassan, Shehzad
> Subject: RE: [nsp] Cisco 7500 Series Router and CEF/ISL/SMIP Issues
>
>
> ********************This is from one of the slots********************
> Slot 1:
> Physical slot 1, ~physical slot 0xE, logical slot 1, CBus 0
> Microcode Status 0x4
> Master Enable, LED, WCS Loaded
> Board is analyzed
> Pending I/O Status: None
> EEPROM format version 1
> VIP2 R5K controller, HW rev 2.03, board revision A0
> Serial number: 18951423 Part number: 73-2167-06
> Test history: 0x00 RMA number: 00-00-00
> Flags: cisco 7000 board; 7500 compatible
>
> EEPROM contents (hex):
> 0x20: 01 1E 02 03 01 21 2C FF 49 08 77 06 00 00 00 00
> 0x30: 50 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>
> Slot database information:
> Flags: 0x4 Insertion time: 0x2CF8 (3w4d ago)
>
> Controller Memory Size: 32 MBytes DRAM, 4096 KBytes SRAM
>
> PA Bay 0 Information:
> Fast-Ethernet PA, 1 ports, 100BaseTX-ISL
> EEPROM format version 1
> HW rev 1.04, Board revision B0
> Serial number: 16798778 Part number: 73-1688-05
>
> PA Bay 1 Information:
> Fast-Ethernet PA, 1 ports, 100BaseTX-ISL
> EEPROM format version 1
> HW rev 1.00, Board revision A0
> Serial number: 03551858 Part number: 73-1688-03
>
> --Boot log begin--
>
> Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
> IOS (tm) VIP Software (SVIP-CDW-M), Version 12.0(18)S, EARLY DEPLOYMENT
> RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
> TAC Support: http://www.cisco.com/tac
> Copyright (c) 1986-2001 by cisco Systems, Inc.
> Compiled Sun 15-Jul-01 17:05 by ninahung
> Image text-base: 0x60010938, data-base: 0x60380000
>
>
> ****************************************************************************
> ************************
>
> Any other info ??
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerard White [mailto:gwhite@newcomm.net]
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 12:53 PM
> To: Hassan, Shehzad; Cisconsp (E-mail)
> Cc: Hassan, Shehzad
> Subject: Re: [nsp] Cisco 7500 Series Router and CEF/ISL/SMIP Issues
>
>
>
> Sounds like your ISL troubles are related to BugID CSCdm12519
> or BugID CSCdp55077.
>
> I recall having an issue with older H/W revision FE PAs (1.0 or 1.1)
> as well. You wouldn't happen to be using these here, would you?
>
> As for your SMIP woes, the only way I got these interfaces to work
> correctly in 12.0+ IOS code was to configure (gasp!) backing-store
> transmit buffers on their respective interfaces. Kiss that RSP
> performance good-bye...
>
> Regards,
> Gerard White
> Aliant Telecom
>
>
> At 03:13 PM 11/15/2001 -0500, Hassan, Shehzad wrote:
> >a)
> >I would appreciate if someone can help me narrow down on this issue.
> >I've seen packet drops on Fast-ethernet interfaces running ISL and CEF, the
> >load is out of the question because some boxes exhibit these errors with
> >minimal load.
> >Here's the HW SW configurtion of one of the boxes
> >*****************
> >router-7500 uptime is 1 week, 4 days, 12 hours, 37 minutes
> >System returned to ROM by reload
> >System restarted at 02:25:38 EST Sun Nov 4 2001
> >System image file is "slot1:rsp-k3pv-mz.120-18.S.bin"
> >Host configuration file is "tftp://205.207.237.48//router-7500.acl"
> >
> >cisco RSP8 (R7000) processor with 262144K/8216K bytes of memory.
> >R7000 CPU at 250Mhz, Implementation 39, Rev 2.1, 256KB L2, 2048KB L3 Cache
> >Last reset from power-on
> >G.703/E1 software, Version 1.0.
> >G.703/JT2 software, Version 1.0.
> >X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.
> >Chassis Interface.
> >1 FSIP controller (8 Serial).
> >1 AIP controller (1 ATM).
> >1 VIP2 controller (2 FastEthernet).
> >2 VIP2 R5K controllers (1 ATM)(2 POS).
> >2 FastEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
> >8 Serial network interface(s)
> >2 ATM network interface(s)
> >2 Packet over SONET network interface(s)
> >2043K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
> >
> >20480K bytes of Flash PCMCIA card at slot 0 (Sector size 128K).
> >32768K bytes of Flash PCMCIA card at slot 1 (Sector size 128K).
> >16384K bytes of Flash internal SIMM (Sector size 256K).
> >No slave installed in slot 3.
> >Configuration register is 0x2102
> >**************************
> >At this time I have disbaled CEF (dCEF) to get rid of the packet drop.
> >
> >Same problems with some other IOS,
> >12.0(10)S5 Service Provider/VIP
> >12.1(5) Service Provider/VIP
> >
> >
> >Any ideas why this is hapening ? I've seen this on RSPx, with these 3
> >flavors of IOSs.
> >
> >b) We've seen serious packet drops on some of the 7500s installed with SMIP
> >Cards and RSP8, running 12.0(18)S code,
> >Need to know if others are facing similar issues.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
>

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