[nsp] diagnosing dCEF

Michael Loftis mloftis at wgops.com
Thu Aug 28 20:06:15 EDT 2003


RTFM mostly......There are a number of limitations for CEF, plus on a 
distributed platform you have to act it on the sup as well as the 
linecards, and possibly interfaces.  If you want to privately send me 
onfigs (minus password/snmp community/etc statements please, I don't even 
want to get itno that possibility, and any anonymizing you feel necessary) 
I'll take a look and see if I can make some suggesstions.

--On Thursday, August 28, 2003 19:55 -0400 Kenny Stoltz <kenny at qx.net> 
wrote:

> I have a 7500 that has "ip cef distributed" enabled, and even though this
> is turned on show interfaces switching produces output like
>
> FastEthernet0/0/0 to MilkyWay Port F0/11
>           Throttle count         23
>         Drops         RP        242         SP          0
>   SPD Flushes       Fast        246        SSE          0
>   SPD Aggress       Fast          0
>  SPD Priority     Inputs       4319      Drops          0
>
>      Protocol       Path    Pkts In   Chars In   Pkts Out  Chars Out
>         Other    Process    1451192  163629338    3011580  180694800
>             Cache misses          0
>                     Fast          0          0          0          0
>                Auton/SSE          0          0          0          0
>            IP    Process  128741017 2182744165  179065024 3715162917
>             Cache misses         44
>                     Fast 3850192978 4238328313 4230800234 4157756173
>                Auton/SSE          0          0          0          0
>       DEC MOP    Process          0          0      50103    3857931
>             Cache misses          0
>                     Fast          0          0          0          0
>                Auton/SSE          0          0          0          0
>           ARP    Process   78977079  443698726    1396932   83815920
>             Cache misses          0
>                     Fast          0          0          0          0
>                Auton/SSE          0          0          0          0
>           CDP    Process     503521  194990679     502129  159675732
>             Cache misses          0
>                     Fast          0          0          0          0
>                Auton/SSE          0          0          0          0
>
> What is the easiest way to diagnose why dCEF isn't switching any packets
> and IP Process is switching such a massive amount of packets?
>
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