Re: [nsp] dCEF does not start on the VIPs 2-50

From: George Robbins (grr@shandakor.tharsis.com)
Date: Wed Jan 03 2001 - 11:06:38 EST


I'd suggest upgrade the VIP's to 64M for VIP2's and 64 or 128M for VIP2/50's.
Otherwise the line cards will run out of memory shut down CEF. In those
versions, there's not much control of CEF, just "no ip cef" off-hours and
bring back up.

CEF on 7500's is broken across most of 12.0 and 12.1 (denpending on
unknown environmental factors), dCEF along with it, 12.0.14S seems
to be the first release that is actually stable by most reports.

Having lots of memory on both the RSP and VIP's has usually had a
beneficial effect, but it's mostly a matter of coping until watever
fixes made it into 12.0.14S make it into the 12.0 mainstream and
12.1 trains (being optimistic here).

                                                        George

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> Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 16:31:41 +0200
> From: Strakadounas Kostas <strakad@forthnet.gr>
> To: "Christian Panigl, ACOnet/VIX/UniVie" <panigl@cc.univie.ac.at>
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> Hi Christian,
>
> It is 12.0(11) IOS and the VIP memory is 32Mby RAM (22Mby free),
> 4Mby SRAM.
> Unfortunately 12.0(xx)S doesn't support IPX.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kostas
>
> Christian Panigl, ACOnet/VIX/UniVie wrote:
>
> > >Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 14:08:21 +0200
> > >From: Strakadounas Kostas <strakad@forthnet.gr>
> > >
> > >dCEF stopped running and remains disabled on slot 4 and 5 of a 7507
> > >with RSP2 and 12.0.11 IOS
> >
> > Hi Kostas,
> >
> > is it 12.0(11) or 12.0(11)S image ? How much memory do your VIP2-50s
> > contain ("show diag") ?
> >
> > Since more than 5 weeks we are having our 7507/RSP4/128MB with 4 VIP2-50
> > (all 128DRAM/8SRAM) running stable with dCEF and IOS 12.0(13.6)S2,
> > official release successor is: IOS 12.0(14)S
> >
> > I would strongly recommend upgrading to 12.0(14)S if you are needing
> > stable dCEF, see also discussion about 12.0(13)S:
> >
> > http://puck.nether.net/lists/cisco-nsp/2688.html
> >
> > Kind regards
> > CP
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